Dawenkou culture
With dawenkou culture ( Chinese 大汶口文化 , pinyin Dàwènkǒu Wenhua ) a group of Neolithic communities in Shandong and Anhui , Henan and Jiangsu (all in today's People's Republic of China ), respectively. The culture existed from around 4100 BC. BC to 2600 BC Next to the Yangshao culture . There are artifacts from earthenware , turquoise , jadeite and ivory found.
In general, archaeologists divide the Dawenkou culture into three phases: an early (4,100–3,500 BC), a middle (3,500–3,000 BC) and a late (3,000–2,600 BC) phase. The early phase shows very egalitarian grave goods , characterized by beakers with long necks ( 鬹 , gui ). In the middle phase, the quantity of additions outweighs their diversity. In the later phase, wooden coffins were increasingly used.
The eponymous Dawenkou site (in Shandong Province) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1982 .
See also
literature
- Sarah Allan (Ed.): The Formation of Chinese Civilization. An Archaeological Perspective. Yale University Press et al., New Haven CT et al. 2005, ISBN 0-300-09382-9 .
- Thomas O. Höllmann: Neolithic graves of the Dawenkou culture in East China. Based on the find reports (= materials on general and comparative archeology. Vol. 2). Beck, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-406-30136-3 .
- Li Liu: The Chinese Neolithic. Trajectories to Early States. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2004, ISBN 0-521-81184-8 .
- Anne P. Underhill: Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York NY et al. 2002, ISBN 0-306-46771-2 .