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The distribution of early Paleolithic cultures in China has been widespread. Chinese Paleolithic cultures dating back to 1 million years BP include the Xihoudou Culture, the Yuanmou Man stone tools, the Kehe Culture, the Lantian Human Culture, and the Donggutuo site. [7]
The location of the early Yangshao culture, discovered in 1921 by Johan G. Andersson, used to be thought of as evidence for this observation. [7] In the 1970s, a more complex view of early China replaced the old bipolar theory as a result of extensive archaeological works and the application of scientific methods.
The Chinese art in the Republic of China (Taiwan) and that of overseas Chinese can also be considered part of Chinese art where it is based in or draws on Chinese heritage and Chinese culture. Early "Stone Age art" dates back to 10,000 BC, mostly consisting of simple pottery and sculptures.
A trove of snake fossils dating to about 6,000 years ago were found in the Zuojiang River Basin.
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 bronze age. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-64310-8; Underhill, Anne P (ed). 2013. A companion to Chinese ...
Rather, early Sino-Tibetan speakers were highly diverse hunter-gatherers and foragers. [53] More recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America point to the origin of the Sino-Tibetan in northern China in the Neolithic Cishan culture and Yangshao culture. [54]
A 9,000 year-old bone flute from Henan. Archaeological evidence indicates that music culture developed in China from a very early period. Excavations in Jiahu Village in Wuyang County, Henan found bone flutes dated to 9,000 years ago, and clay music instruments called Xun thought to be 7,000 years old have been found in the Hemudu sites in Zhejiang and Banpo in Xi'an.
Chinese ancestor veneration, also called Chinese ancestor worship, [1] [a] is an aspect of the Chinese traditional religion which revolves around the ritual celebration of the deified ancestors and tutelary deities of people with the same surname organised into lineage societies in ancestral shrines. Ancestors, their ghosts, or spirits, and ...