Qujialing culture
The Qujialing Culture ( Chinese 屈家嶺 文化 / 屈家岭 文化 , Pinyin Qūjiālǐng Wénhuà , English Qujialing Culture ) is a late Neolithic culture in China. It is named after the findings from 1954 in Qujialing, Jingshan County (京山 县), Hubei Province . Characteristic finds are small-shaped ceramics with walls as thin as eggshells ("eggshell ceramics", Chinese danketao 蛋壳 陶), spindle whorls made of ceramics with colored decoration (caidao fanglun 彩陶 纺 轮) and long-necked hu vessels (hú 壶) with a ring base and high dou vessels (dòu 豆) with a ring base.
The culture was mainly prevalent in the Jiang Han plain . Economic life at that time consisted mainly of agriculture, Japonica rice (粳稻Orzya sativa subsp. Keng ) - a round-grain, non-sticky rice - was already being bred, and pigs , dogs and other domestic animals were also bred. Hunting also played an important role. According to the radiocarbon method , the Qujialing culture is estimated to have been around 2750–2650 BC. Dated.
The Qujialing site is on the List of Monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-194).
literature
- Cihai ("Sea of Words"); Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe 2002; ISBN 7-5326-0839-5