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Yangtze civilization () is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the
Yangtze civilization () is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the Yangtze
The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
basin in China, a contemporary civilization by the neighboring Yellow River civilization.
Cultures
Upper Yangtze
* Pengtoushan culture (7000–6100 BCE) * Daxi culture (5000–3000 BCE) * Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BCE) * Shijiahe culture (2500–2000 BCE)Lower Yangtze
*Hemudu culture
The Hemudu culture (5500 BC to 3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture that flourished on the Coastline of China, Chinese coast, just south of the Hangzhou Bay in Jiangnan in modern Yuyao, Zhejiang, China. The culture may be divided into early and la ...
(5500–3300 BCE)
* Majiabang culture (5000–3300 BCE)Wang, Haiming (2001), "Majiabang", in Peregrine, Peter N.; Ember, Martin, Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 3: East Asia and Oceania, Springer, pp. 206–221, .
* Songze culture (3800–3300 BCE)
* Liangzhu culture (3300–2300 BCE)
* Wucheng culture (1600 BCE–?)
See also
* Yellow river civilization * Liao civilization * Prehistory of ChinaReferences
Civilization
A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of state (polity), the state, social stratification, urban area, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyon ...