Banpo settlement
Banpo village was a settlement during the Neolithic Yangshao culture from 4800 to 3600 BC. It is located in today's Baqiao district of the Chinese city of Xi'an . Today it is an important archaeological site that has been extensively researched. An important museum is attached to it.
Around 500 to 600 people lived in the village of Banpo in the Neolithic Age. The remains of 46 round or rectangular houses built over shallow pits have been found. The village was divided into three areas, namely a living area, a cemetery and an area for ceramic workshops and kilns. The houses were arranged according to clan or family membership. The walls of the houses were made of straw interspersed with clay and wickerwork of branches. The houses were between 3 and 5 meters tall, the fireplaces were in the houses. A large number of storage pits were also found. The village was protected by a defensive moat.
In the social structure of Banpos there does not seem to have been a strict hierarchy. Already at this time plant fibers and animal hair were spun into weaving threads and weaving facilities were also found. Ceramic vessels show geometric patterns, simple characters, but also artistic images of human faces and animals such as fish and deer.
The Banpo site (Banpo yizhi 半坡 遗址) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-139) since 1961 .
literature
- Zhongguo kexueyuan Kaogu yanjiusuo, Banpo bowuguan (Archaeological Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Banpo Museum) [ed.]: Xi'an Banpo (The Banpo Settlement near Xi'an) , Beijing: Wenwu chubanshe, 1963.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dieter Kuhn : East Asia until 1800 . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2014, ISBN 978-3-10-010843-2 , pp. 77 .
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Coordinates: 34 ° 16 ′ 28 ″ N , 109 ° 2 ′ 51 ″ E