Peiligang culture
The Peiligang culture ( Chinese 裴李崗文化 / 裴李岗文化 , Pinyin Péilǐgāng Wénhuà ) is an early Neolithic culture in northern China. It is based on the radiocarbon method in the period 5600-4900 BC. Dated approximately to the time of the Cishan culture . It is probably a forerunner of the Yangshao culture .
The Peiligang site was discovered in 1977 in Peiligang, Xinzheng County, Henan Province , China . The Peiligang culture was mainly common in the center of Henan Province, but was also discovered in the north and south of Henan.
The tools used were mainly polished stone tools, some of them very fine work, including a stone sickle with a sawtooth blade and stone shovel and the famous shoe-sole-shaped four-legged saddle mill (shímòpán 石磨 盘) with a grater (mòbàng 磨 棒); there are also chipped scrapers (guāxiāoqì 刮削 器).
The pottery is mainly made of xini hongtao (细 泥 红陶) and jiashacu hongtao (夹砂 粗 红陶), all of them are handmade, the firing temperature was relatively low. The pottery mostly has a plain surface, there are few polished or decorated comb needle decorations. Typical vessel shapes are the three-legged clay pot (bō 钵) and the two-eye jug (shuāngěrhú 双耳 壶); it appears to have been hung by a string.
At the time of the Peiligang culture, people were already living in permanent settlements. Agriculture was at the forefront of economic life; Pigs, dogs and other domestic animals have already been bred, as well as collecting, fishing and hunting.
Peiligang site
The Peiligang site ( 裴 李 岗 遗址 , Péilǐgāng yízhǐ , English Peiligang site ) in Xinzheng (新郑 市) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-64) since 2001 .
Jiahu site
The Jiahu site ( 贾湖 遗址 , Jiahu yizhi , English Jiahu site ) in Wuyang County (舞阳县), one of the earliest sites of this culture, has also been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-65) since 2001 .
See also
- List of Neolithic sites in China
- Monuments of the People's Republic of China (Henan)
- Yangshao culture
- Cishan culture
literature
- Cihai . Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe 2002; ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cihai , S. 1269b. The rest of the presentation is essentially based on this work.
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