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The city exercised control over more than 40 square kilometres (15 sq mi) of the basin, which hosted over 100 Liangzhu cultural sites of varying significance. [14] The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City consists of four sites, which are interconnected through shared social and cultural ties, forming a continuous chronology.
The Liangzhu Museum (Chinese: 良渚博物院; pinyin: Liángzhǔ Bówùyuàn) is an archaeological museum dedicated to the Neolithic Liangzhu culture. It houses a collection of artefacts from the archaeological culture. It is located in Liangzhu, in the northwestern outskirts of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province, China. [1]
The primary Liangzhu site was perhaps among the oldest Neolithic sites in East Asia that would be considered a state society. [3] [4] The type site at Liangzhu was discovered in Yuhang County, Zhejiang and initially excavated by Shi Xingeng in 1936. On 6 July 2019, the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City was inscribed as a UNESCO World ...
Found in two Liangzhu sites of Fanshan and Yaoshan (Zhejiang province) were cardinally oriented rectangular grounds raised to 4 meters above the surrounding earth. At the center of each platform lay square altars with side measuring 20 meters; this is also where famous Liangzhu jades were discovered.
According to museum site it is "the most impressive of all the jade cong of Liangzhu culture". [3] Because of its large weight, it has been dubbed the "king of cong ". [ 4 ] It was made by first sawing a rectangular block out of a pebble and then drilling a hole from top to bottom, then grinding parts of the block away "to leave what looks like ...
Modern-day name and location ... Liangzhu 3200–1800 3000 Tanishan: Banshan 2700–2400 Shijiahe ... The archaeology of China: ...
English name Chinese name Time Modern-day location Shangchen: 上陈（上陳） 2.12 MYA – 1.26 MYA Lantian County, Shaanxi: Bose Basin: 博斯盆地: Guangxi of southern China
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