Tanshishan culture
The Tanshishan culture ( Chinese 曇 石山 文化 / 昙 石山 文化 , Pinyin Tánshíshān Wénhuà , English Tanshishan Culture ) was a Neolithic culture ( 閩侯 in the Minhou district ) named after the Tanshishan site ( 曇 石山 遺址 / 昙 石山 遗址 , Tánshíshān Yízhǐ ) 縣 / 闽侯 县 ) in the Chinese province of Fujian . It is named after the site of its first discovery, the village of Tanshi in the large municipality of Ganzhe, in 1954.
The culture is believed to date from approximately 3000 to 2000 BC. And was common on the lower reaches of the Min Jiang River .
Primitive agriculture already played a role in economic life. Pigs, dogs and other domestic animals were bred; fishing and hunting were very important.
One of the most famous finds is one of the earliest clay lamps discovered in China.
The Tanshishan site ( Tanshishan yizhi ) has been a monument of the People's Republic of China (5–52).
A museum, the Tanshishan Museum , has been established at the site .
See also
literature
- Fujian Provincial Museum: "The Excavation of Tanshishan Site, Minhou, Fujian." Kaogu 1983.12, pp. 1057-1152, Beijing, 1983. - Chinese
- Lin Zhonggan 林忠 干: "Tanshishan wenhua de zai yanjiu" 昙 石山 文化 的 再 研究 (Re-examination of the Tanshishan culture). Dongnan wenhua东南 文化 1991.05, Nanjing, 1991 - Chinese
- Tanshishan wenhua yanjiu 2005
reference books
- Cihai . Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe 2002; ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
- Zhongguo da baike quanshu: Kaoguxue [Great Chinese Encyclopedia: Volume Archeology]. Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe, 1986