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	Xi'an LIVE - Life & Entertainment in Xi'an China
		Yangshao Culture occurred in the late Neolithic Age about 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, and is significant due to technological advances in pottery making.
		Accordingly, Yangshao Culture is often referred to as “Red-Pottery Culture” or “Painted-Pottery Culture.” One of the most striking pieces of pottery from this culture is a basin discovered at Banpo village that is decorated with a human and fish motifs.
		Yangshao Culture is further characterized by its social arrangement — a tribal clan community that was matriarchal.
	www.xian-live.com /baoji-interest.htm (2383 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: Chinese Archaeology :: Neolithic and Bronze Age Cultures
		The Hongshan culture (红山文化) was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China.
		During the late stages of the culture, the Qijia culture retreated from the west and suffered a reduction in population size.
		The Wucheng culture was a distinct contemporary of Sanxingdui and Yinxu and is known for its distinct geometric pottery and bronze bells, the clapperless nao.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c03s04.html (1453 words)

	Teaching Chinese Archaeology, object 2 - NGA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Yangshao is one of the earliest Neolithic cultures identified in China and is among the best known.
		Yangshao vessels were typically decorated with designs abstracted from plant or animal forms into geometric patterns, which were further developed by the Majiayao culture (right).
		Yangshao society was governed by kinship ties and remained strongly connected to the cycles and forces of nature.
	www.nga.gov /education/chinatp_sl02.htm (367 words)

	Chinese History - Prehistoric cultures of China (www.chinaknowledge.de)
		Although the cultures in the Central Plain played an important role, the prehistoric cultures of the other regions were also developing simultaneously with their own characteristics, as is increasingly proven by archeological finds.
		China's civilisation was divided by the Yangshao culture in the west (cultures bearers were called Xia å¤) and the Longshan culture in the east (bearers called Yi å¤·), a theory that was valid into the 1950es when it was revised by the discovering of Longshan cultural sites within the Yangshao area.
		Characteristics of the Longshan culture that dominated the Central Plain from the late 4th millenium on are town enclosures made of stamped-earth, thin and polished fl pottery produced with a wheel, oracles made of burned and cracked scapulas.
	www.chinaknowledge.de /History/Myth/prehistory-event.html (1547 words)

	Banpo
		The Yangshao culture (Chinese: pinyin) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the central Yellow River in China.
		The Yangshao culture is dated from around 5000 to 3000 BC.
		Yangshao artisans created fine white, red, and fl painted pottery with human facial, animal, and geometric designs.
	www.archira.com /banpo.html (276 words)

	Ancient China: The Xia and Shang - Ancient Man and His First Civilizations
		This Yangshao culture, which relates to the Xia Dynasty, is characterized by handsome painted pottery.
		The Yangshao culture is followed by the Lungshan, after which comes the Yin, or Shang, which dates to about 1,500 B.C, and is by far the better known.
		A point of comparison: the Yangshao culture is dated conventionally at 3,500 B.C, yet just across the bay in Japan, the same type people (the ancient Jomon), who migrated "from" China to Japan, are known to have inhabited that area since about 35,000 B.C, so be careful what conclusions you draw from dates.
	www.realhistoryww.com /world_history/ancient/China_1.htm (878 words)

	Neolithic Culture in China
		Neolithic cultures are distinguished from earlier Paleolithic and Mesolithic structures by the domestication of plants and animals, and extensive making and use of stone tools.
		Neolithic cultures have been shown to have existed in southwest Asia as early as 8000 b.c.
		The presence of ceramics, most commonly vessels for food storage, and settled or semi-settled agriculture are the defining characteristics of neolithic cultures.
	www.chinapage.com /archeology/neolithic.html (306 words)

	Chinese / Storage Jar / Neolithic period, Gansu Yangshao culture, Banshan type, c. 3rd-2nd millenium BCE
		The most striking and numerous are those produced by the Yangshao culture, which flourished in north-central and northwest China c.
		The Yangshao culture is generally divided into six phases, each of which is named for an archaeological site and characterized by the creation of earthenwares painted in shades of fl, red, and brown.
		The density and complexity of the decoration painted on this large storage jar are characteristic of ceramics produced during the Gansu Yangshao (c.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico1159415-10576.html (638 words)

	The Chinese Neolithic - Cambridge University Press
		The Longshan culture is one of the Neolithic ceramic assemblages identified by the pioneers of modern Chinese archaeology early this century.
		Distinctive from the Yangshao painted pottery, the fl pottery from Chengziyai was similar to the Neolithic remains found at Hougang in Anyang, which were directly superpositioned by the Shang cultural remains.
		The Longshan culture of fl pottery in the east (representing indigenous Chinese culture) was thus viewed as a system independent from the Yangshao culture of painted pottery in the west (thought to be foreign diffusion).
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0511079044&ss=exc (3636 words)

	Yangshao Site
		Yangshao Culture was typical of the national culture in the Yellow River valley.
		Yangshao Cultural Site was named after Yangshao because it was discovered in Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, Sanmenxia City of Henan in 1921.
		Yangshao Site is encircled by the Yinniu River on the eastern, western and southern sides and the Mountain Shaoshan on the northern side, and covers an area of 300,000 square meters with its cultural layer being up to 4 meters deep.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_39099.htm (228 words)

	J.-E Berger Foundation: Neolithic Period (China) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Longshan culture, which coexisted with the preceding culture for some time, before replacing it, stretched further to the east and was devoted mainly to agriculture (millet, barley, wheat) and animal husbandry (the domestication of the buffalo).
		This culture already carried out rites belonging to the cult of their ancestors and reflecting belief in a "mirror-life" of the Beyond, as testified by the presence of necropolises near the villages, and by the discovery, surrounding the skeletons, of pottery pieces containing food (at Yangshao), including in particular magnificent fl, wheel-turned earthenware.
		The Yangshao and Longshan peoples were already familiar with metal, resorted to tortoiseshell and jade, and practiced scapulomancy - all skills that would become generalized from the late 3rd millennium BCE.
	www.bergerfoundation.ch /Un_regard/english/neo.html (485 words)

	Yangshao Culture - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yangshao Culture - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Yangshao Culture, Neolithic culture that flourished in China about 3950-1700 bc.
		Culture, a word in common use but with complex meanings, derived, like the term broadcasting, from the treatment and care of the soil and of what...
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	Free Essay The Chinese Yangshao and Longshan Cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Yangshao culture is a name given to a large collection of people that lived in the Henan region of China.
		Later Yangshao culture was influenced by neighboring peoples, such as the Dawenko culture, and the decorations slowly began to become more and more abstract and animal motifs became more rare.
		Both the Yangshao and Longshan cultures produced impressive works of art, which luckily has survived long enough to be rediscovered, and both may have had important influences in the history of China's art and cultural world.
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	Bo
		Its shape is very unusual for a Yangshao pot, but it does possess the characteristic surface decoration of a fl painted geometric pattern.
		The Neolithic Longshan culture is characterized by its thin fl pottery.
		culture placed emphasis on elegant form rather than on surface decoration, and pots were not generally painted.
	www.colby.edu /art/AR293/neolthicceramics.htm (255 words)

	Sinophilia - your gateway to China - guides
		Looking at the pottery of the Yangshao culture (5th-4th millennium b.C) the elegance and the appealing lines of later bronzes are already visible.
		The villages of Yangshao culture were made up of some tens of dwellings around a central higher building, the public building of the clan.
		Dawenkou culture is approximately contemporary to Yangshao culture, and is found throughout Jiangsu and Shandong.
	www.sinophilia.org /china/artestoria1.htm (374 words)

	Silkroad Foundation
		It was here that the Neolithic people referred to as the Yangshao culture emerged to form one of the first societies at the dawn of Chinese history.
		The Yangshao are most famous for their exquisite painted pottery depicting a variety of human faces, animals and geometric designs.
		The many splendors of their far-flung empire were reflected in the exotic blend of cultures in what was arguably the greatest city in the world at the time.
	www.silk-road.com /travel/changan.html (1295 words)

	Chinese history:the Yangshao Culture and Longshan Culture
		In1953, during construction of a factory at Banpo, near the city of Xi'an in Shaanxi Province, a neolithic village belonging to the Yangshao Culture was accidentally uncovered.
		The Longshan Culture was more advanced than the Yangshao Culture and probably flourished about a thousand years later, between 5000 and 4000 B.C. People of the Longshan Culture also hunted, fished and planted grain.
		These scholars now believe that the Longshan Culture was in fact a later development of the Yangshao Culture.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/yangshao.htm (399 words)

	Longshan culture - Chinese Culture - Chinese Culture
		Longshan culture was a late Neolithic culture centered around the central and lower Yellow River in China.
		Life during the Longshan culture marked a transition into a establishment of cities, as rammed earth walls and moats began to appear.
		Unlike the Yangshao culture, the Longshan culture was a patriarchical society.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Longshan_culture (249 words)

	Yangshao culture - Uberpedia, the ultimate online resource
		The Yangshao culture is dated from around 5000 BC to 2000 BC.
		The exact nature of Yangshao agriculture -- small-scale slash-and-burn cultivation versus intensive agriculture in permanent fields, is currently matter of debate.
		However, Middle Yangshao settlements such as Jiangzhi contain raised floor buildings that may have been used for the storage of surplus grains.
	www.uberpedia.org /wiki/Yangshao_culture (368 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: Chinese Archaeology :: Archaeological Sites
		As the capital of the Western Han Dynasty, it was the political, economic and cultural center of China, the start of the Silk Road, and a cosmopolitan metropolis comparable with the greatest cities of the contemporaneous Roman Empire.
		Lajia is associated with the Qijia culture and was discovered by archaeologists in 2000.
		Sanxingdui was a cultural contemporary of the Shang Dynasty, yet developed a different method of bronze-making; surprisingly, the culture was never directly recorded by Chinese historians.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c03s05.html (4465 words)

	chinese-art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Liangzhu Jade culture was the last Neolithic Jade culture in the Yangtze River delta and was spaced over a period of about 1,300 years.
		The Jade from this culture is characterized by finely worked large ritual jades such as Cong cylinders, Bi discs, Yue axes and also pendants and decorations in the form of chiseled open-work plaques, plates and representations of small birds, turtles and fish.
		As a consequence of the Dynasty's openness to foreign influences, and renewed exchanges with Indian culture due to the numerous travels of Chinese Buddhist monks to India from the 4th to the 11th century, Tang dynasty Buddhist sculpture assumed a rather classical form, inspired by the Indian art of the Gupta period.
	www.china-101.net /chineseart.html (5497 words)

	Watching Over Cultural Relic Voluntarily
		Jointly discovered in 1921 by Chinese archeologist Yuan Fuli and his Swedish peer, J.G.Anderson, Yangshao Cultural Relic, as the prehistoric village is called, is situated in Yangshao Village of Mianchi County in Henan Province's Sanmenxia City.
		The Yangshao Culture, known for its painted pottery with a variety of finely designed geometrical patterns, is centered in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, extending to south China's Hubei Province and north China's Inner Mogolia.
		Villagers said they were not especially reluctant to re-settle, as they believe the kind of protection given by the state would be best for the site, and at the same time their quality of life would be improved in new housing.
	www.china.org.cn /english/TR-e/21815.htm (652 words)

	Windows on Asia
		Yangshao and Longshan Cultures (ca 6000 to 2200 B.C) Yangshao Culture was based in Henan Province from about 6000 to 5000 B.C. In addition to growing millet (a type of grain), the Yangshao hunted, fished, and raised pigs to survive.
		The pottery made by the Yangshao people is probably the most significant trademark of their culture.
		Since the Yangshao did not use a potter's wheel, the pots were probably pieced together with strips of clay.
	www.isp.msu.edu /asianstudies/wbwoa/eastasia/China/History/history_6000_2200.html (468 words)

	Neolithic China
		The two main types, Painted Pottery and Black Pottery, belong to the two distinct cultural groups of the Neolithic, the Yangshao and the Lungshan.
		The Yangshao lived in the mountainous regions of northern and western China in round or rectangular houses that were below ground level and surrounded by little walls of earth.
		YANGSHAO CULTURES (5,000 - 3,000 B.C) Besides the coarse, gray ware discussed above, there were finer ewers, jars, bowls and cups made of higher quality clay that were fired at temperatures as high as 1,020°C, burnished and painted (see below).
	www.rugreview.com /atroc/atrocneo.htm (791 words)

	Painted pottery urn (gang) - Jongo Knows - Encyclopedia of China
		The Yangshao culture is often called the painted pottery culture (classification of pottery shapes and decorations is one way archaeologists identify cultural groupings).
		Yangshao vessels were typically decorated with designs abstracted from plant or animal forms into geometric patterns, which were further developed by the Majiayao culture.
		The gang comes from a late Yangshao phase, when monochrome gray and fl wares had begun to replace the earlier painted designs.
	knows.jongo.com /res/article/14054 (422 words)

	Banpo Village Remains Xian
		The village was an authentic matriarchal clan community of the Yangshao Culture.
		It was named after the Yangshao Village which was discovered in Mianchi County, Henan Province in 1921.
		The culture was located mainly in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River Valley.
	www.cnhomestay.com /city/xian/banpo.htm (518 words)

	A Hotlist on Ancient China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo 1 - Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo
		Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo 2 - Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo
		Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo 3 - Remains of Houses of Yangshao Culture at Banpo
	www.kn.pacbell.com /wired/fil/pages/listancientms20.html (238 words)

	Xian Banpo Museum - Tour Banpo Village Remains in Xian
		The Yangshao culture from the neolithic age dates back about 6,000 years, around (5,000 to 3,000 BC), and the earliest beginnings of the Chinese civilization traced back to them.
		The Yangshao culture was matriarchal where women were buried with more property than men.
		History also records that in the Yangshao culture, people knew their mothers, but not their fathers.
	www.travelchinatour.com /xian-china/banpo-museum.htm (463 words)

	Asian Spirit - China - Neolithic Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Once ancient culture changed directions from hunting and fishing toward a life of agriculture we began to see the heightened usage of pottery vessels.
		The finds of pottery tools and weapons have suggested that farming was already established during these two cultures and that they, together, led the way to the celebrated Yangshao Culture.
		This was most likely the outstanding culture of the Neolithic Period having lasted the test of time and had developed strong political and economic ties throughout China.
	asianspiritgallery.com /china_neo.html (516 words)

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