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This is a list of Neolithic cultures of
These cultures are existed for the period from 8500 to 1500 BC. Neolithic cultures remain unmarked and Bronze Age cultures (from 2000 BC) are marked with *. There are many differences in opinion by dating these cultures, so the dates chosen here are tentative:
For this schematic outline of its neolithic cultures China has been divided into the following nine parts:
#Northeast China: Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin and
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
that have been unearthed by archaeologists. They are sorted in chronological order from earliest to latest and are followed by a schematic visualization of these cultures.
It would seem that the definition of Neolithic in China is undergoing changes. The discovery in 2012 of pottery about 20,000 years BC indicates that this measure alone can no longer be used to define the period. It will fall to the more difficult task of determining when cereal domestication started.
List
Schematic outline
These cultures are existed for the period from 8500 to 1500 BC. Neolithic cultures remain unmarked and Bronze Age cultures (from 2000 BC) are marked with *. There are many differences in opinion by dating these cultures, so the dates chosen here are tentative:
For this schematic outline of its neolithic cultures China has been divided into the following nine parts:
#Northeast China: Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning
Liaoning () is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region. With its capital at Shenyang, it is located on the northern shore of the Yellow Sea, and is the northernmost ...
.
#Northwest China (Upper Yellow River): Gansu
Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province.
The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...
, Qinghai and western part of Shaanxi.
#North-central China (Middle Yellow River): Shanxi
Shanxi (; ; formerly romanised as Shansi) is a landlocked province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the North China region. The capital and largest city of the province is Taiyuan, while its next most populated prefecture-lev ...
, Hebei, western part of Henan and eastern part of Shaanxi.
#Eastern China (lower Yellow River): Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
, Anhui, northern part of Jiangsu and eastern part Henan.
#East-south-eastern China (lower Yangtze): Zhejiang and biggest part of Jiangsu.
#South-central China (middle Yangtze): Hubei and northern part of Hunan.
# Sichuan and upper Yangtze.
#Southeast China: Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi
Guangxi (; ; Chinese postal romanization, alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the People's Republic ...
, southern part of Hunan, lower Red River in the northern part of Vietnam and the island of Taiwan.
#Southwest China: Yunnan and Guizhou.
See also
* History of China *List of Bronze Age sites in China
This list of Bronze Age sites in China includes sites dated to either the Chinese Bronze Age, or Shang and Western Zhou according to the dynastic system. It is currently based on China's Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the Nati ...
* List of Palaeolithic sites in China
* List of inventions and discoveries of Neolithic China
* Neolithic signs in China
* Prehistoric Asia
*Prehistoric Beifudi site
Beifudi () is an archaeological site and Neolithic village in Yi County, Hebei, China. The site, an area of 3 ha on the northern bank of the Yishui River, contains artifacts of a culture contemporaneous with the Cishan and Xinglongwa cultur ...
*Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors
The Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were two groups of mythological rulers in ancient north China. The Three Sovereigns supposedly lived long before The Five Emperors, who have been assigned dates in a period from 3162 BC to 2070 BC. Today ...
* Xia dynasty
References
Further reading
* * * * * *Liu, Li; Chen, Xingcan (eds). 2012. ''The archaeology of China: from the late paleolithic to the early bronze age''. Cambridge University Press. *Underhill, Anne P (ed). 2013. ''A companion to Chinese archaeology. Blackwell Publishing''. * * ::chapter 7, Higham, Charles, 'East Asian Agriculture and Its Impact', p.234-264. ::chapter 15, Higham, Charles, 'Complex Societies of East and Southeast Asia', p.552-594External links
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