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The Mesolithic period in China, between the Upper Paleolithic and Early Neolithic, was characterized by the manufacture of microliths, and is therefore also known as the "Microlith Period". China was in the Mesolithic period from about 10,000 to 7,000 years ago, with cultures successively entering the Neolithic period after one or two millennia ...
Xiaochangliang (simplified Chinese: 小长梁; traditional Chinese: 小長梁; pinyin: Xiǎochángliáng) is the site of some of the earliest paleolithic remains in East Asia, located in the Nihewan (泥河灣) Basin in Yangyuan County, Hebei, China, most famous for the stone tools discovered there.
The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge England: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-49660-8. Liu, Li (2004). The Chinese neolithic:trajectories to early states. Cambridge, UK New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81184-8. Liu, Li; Chen, Xingcan (eds). 2012. The archaeology of China: from the late paleolithic to the early ...
Study of Prehistoric China includes its paleolithic sites, neolithic cultures, Chalcolithic cultures, the Chinese Bronze Age, and the Bronze Age sites. Ancestors of East Asians split from other human populations possibly as early as 70,000 to 50,000 years ago.
Banpo is a Neolithic archaeological site located in the Yellow River valley, east of present-day Xi'an, China.Discovered in 1953 by Shi Xingbang, [1] the site represents the first phase of the Yangshao culture (c. 5000 – c. 3000 BCE) and features the remains of several well organized settlements—including Jiangzhai, which has been radiocarbon dated to c. 4700 – c. 3600 BCE).
Jiahu (Chinese: 賈湖) was the site of a Neolithic settlement based in the central plain of ancient China, near the Yellow River.It is located between the floodplains of the Ni River to the north, and the Sha River to the south, 22 km (14 mi) north of modern Wuyang in Henan. [1]
The type site is the oldest and largest site associated with the Baodun culture. This culture has the largest walled Neolithic area in China. [6] Baodun is surrounded by two walls: the inner wall covers an area of around 66 ha (660,000 m 2), while the outer wall covers an area of around 245 ha (2,450,000 m 2).