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About Yangshao Culture

Period: Neolithic
Chinese: 仰韶文化
Followed by: Longshan culture
Major sites: Shuanghuaishu, Banpo, Jiangzhai

Introduction

Yangshao Culture refers to an important Neolithic painted pottery culture in the middle reaches of the Yellow River, which lasted from about 5000 BC to 3000 BC (that is, about 7000 to 5000 years ago, and lasted for about 2000 years). In the entire middle reaches of the Yellow River from today’s Gansu Province to Henan Province.

Because it was first discovered in Yangshao Village, Mianchi County, Sanmenxia City, Henan Province in 1921, according to archaeological practice, this culture is called Yangshao Culture. It is centered in Guanzhong, Western Henan, and southern Shanxi, where the tributaries of the Yellow Rivers such as Wei, Fen, and Luo gather.

It reaches along the Great Wall and the Hetao area in the north, northwestern Hubei in the south, east Henan in the east, and borders Gansu and Qinghai in the west…