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    appearing in Anhui, Henan and Jiangsu. The culture existed from 4300 to 2600 BC, and co-existed with the Yangshao culture. Turquoise, jade and ivory artefacts...
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    Han Chinese (redirect from Han culture)
     6500–5000 BCE), the Yangshao culture (c. 5000–3000 BCE), the Longshan culture (c. 3000–2000 BCE) and the Erlitou culture (c. 1900–1500 BCE). These cultures are believed...
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    The Ordos culture (simplified Chinese: 鄂尔多斯文化; traditional Chinese: 鄂爾多斯文化; pinyin: È'ěrduōsī Wénhuà) was a material culture occupying a region centered...
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  • painted pottery culture, the Yangshao culture (5000-3000 BC) from the Central Plains spreadwestward, which had a great impact on Majiayao culture (3000-2000...
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    (/ˈljɑːŋˈdʒuː/) culture or civilization (3300–2300 BC) was the last Chinese Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta. The culture was highly stratified...
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    The Boian culture (dated to 4300–3500 BC), also known as the Giulești–Marița culture or Marița culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast...
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  • Mongolia and northern Hebei. The Yangshao culture (Chinese: 仰韶文化; pinyin: Yǎngsháo wénhuà) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the...
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    The Vinča culture [ʋîːnt͜ʃa], also known as Turdaș culture, Turdaș–Vinča culture or Vinča-Turdaș culture, is a Neolithic archaeological culture of Southeast...
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    Varna culture (South/Eastern Europe 4400–4100 BC) Windmill Hill culture Stonehenge Xinglongwa culture Beifudi site Xinle culture Yangshao culture Banpo...
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  • Europe was in the Neolithic. China was dominated by the Neolithic Yangshao culture. The Americas were in a phase of transition between the Paleo-Indian...
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    a prominent variation. Around the fifth millennium BCE, many cultures such as Yangshao appeared and left behind various sites that allow investigations...
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    The Xinglongwa culture (興隆洼文化) (6200–5400 BC) was a Neolithic culture in northeastern China, found mainly around the Inner Mongolia-Liaoning border at...
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    Chinese dragon (category Yangshao culture)
    millennium BC from the Yangshao culture in Henan in 1987, and jade badges of rank in coiled form have been excavated from the Hongshan culture c. 4700–2900 BC...
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    The Linear Pottery culture (LBK) is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic period, flourishing c. 5500–4500 BC. Derived from the German...
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  • Afanasievo culture and Okunev culture of the Minusinsk basin in Siberia, and those on the earlier potteries of Banpo (c. 4000 BCE), of the Yangshao culture in...
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    5800 – 5400 BC. Banpo symbols – Yangshao culture, from China, 5th millennium BC. Jiangzhai symbols – Yangshao culture, from China, 4th millennium BC....
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    ornaments, with close similarities de the Zhukaigou culture in central Inner Mongolia, or the Qijia culture and the Siba culture in the Hexi Corridor, but major...
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    (chiefly the Yangshao and the Longshan cultures), wore hemp clothing, and domesticated pigs and dogs. 4000–2500 BC – Vietnamese Bronze Age culture. The Đồng...
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    rouge-type cosmetic, in the New World since the Olmec culture, and in China since as early as the Yangshao culture, where it was used in coloring stoneware. In...
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    believe that the Peiligang culture was egalitarian, with little political organization. It eventually evolved into the Yangshao culture (5000 to 3000 BC), and...
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    Haute couture (redirect from Haute culture)
    clothing. History of silk originated in Neolithic China within the Yangshao culture (4th millennium BC), where the "Silk worm" was discovered. The Asian...
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  • Chalcolithic (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Hongshan cultures, but those metal artifacts were not widely used during this early stage. Copper manufacturing gradually appeared in the Yangshao period...
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    the Yangshao culture (c. 5000 – c. 3000 BCE) and neighboring cultures in northern China, copper ling were produced by the end of the Longshan culture, with...
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    Red lacquer box from the Qing dynasty Painted pottery of neolithic Yangshao culture, with depiction of a stork catching a fish and a stone axe on the side...
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    Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100 BC and 5100 BC...
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    the Xiaotun culture, Longshan culture and Yangshao culture. Longshan culture was earlier than Xiaotun culture and later than Yangshao culture. Chinese ritual...
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    Feng shui (category Yangshao culture)
    are not amenable to testing with the scientific method. The Yangshao and Hongshan cultures provide the earliest known evidence for the use of feng shui...
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  • Nigeria), of the Nok culture Banpo (Yangshao culture, Neolithic Yangshao culture, China) Liangzhu Town, near Hangzhou (Liangzhu culture, Neolithic, China)...
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    5th millennium BC (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    this millennium with the beginnings of three noted cultures from around 5000 BC. The Yangshao culture was based in the Huang He (Yellow River) basin and...
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    validate Henri de Contenson's earlier suggestion of a PPNA Aswadian culture. Instead, they found evidence of a fully established PPNB culture at 8700 BC at...
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