| 英文摘要 |
The stone slab house is a special form developed for the purpose of adapting to mountain life. It is a closed type, not mixing easily with other styles. Moreover, it does not exist outside of the mountain area. This kind of stone slab house was divided into two discontinuous parts, the north group and the south group, in the southern mountainous area of Taiwan. These two groups are very similar in spatial style and construction, meaning they were built by the same cultural group. On the one hand, the north groups made houses through observation of the characteristics of local materials, slate and shale. Over a certain period of acculturation, the characteristics of slate and shale and the social strata system of houses became a particular culture of stone slab houses. On the other hand, the south groups constructed stone slab houses due to the heritage of the social strata system of houses, and they used sandstone for a material because of environmental limits. By comparing the diversity, the use of materials, geographical relations, and so on, we can see that stone slab houses probably diffused from north to south. The stone slab houses of the north group have continued to develop till now, but those of the south groups stopped developing around the 17th century. The reason for the halt of colonization might have something to do with the failure of the mountain cultivated type. |
