Nanzhuangtou

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Nanzhuangtou Culture (南莊頭遺址) 11500-11000 cal BP [1] [2]was a Neolithic Yellow River site near Lake Baiyangdian in Xushui County, Hebei, China. The site was discovered under a peat bog.[3] Over forty-seven pieces of pottery were discovered at the site. Nanzhuangtou is also the earliest Neolithic site yet discovered in northern China. There is evidence that the people at Nanzhuangtou domesticated the dog.[4] Stone grinding slabs and rollers and bone artifacts were also discovered at the site. It is one of the earliest site showing evidence of millet cultivation dating to 10500 BP.[5] Pottery can also be dated to 10200 BP [6]

Notes

  1. Kuzmin, Yaroslav V. "Chronology of the earliest pottery in East Asia: progress and pitfalls." ANTIQUITY-OXFORD- 80, no. 308 (2006): 362.
  2. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/16/1115430109
  3. The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, pp 28
  4. Archaeology of Asia, pp. 124
  5. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/02/16/1115430109
  6. http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/General/Pottery%20E.%20Asia%20Y.%20Kuzmin.pdf

References

  • Allan, Sarah (ed), The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, ISBN 0-300-09382-9
  • Liu, Li. The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States, ISBN 0-521-81184-8
  • Sagart, Laurent, Roger Blench and Alicia Sanchez-Mazas (eds), The Peopling of East Asia ISBN 0-415-32242-1
  • Stark, Miriam T. (ed), Archaeology of Asia, ISBN 1-4051-0213-6
  • Yang, Xiaoyan et al, Early millet use in northern China, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 109 no. 10, 3726–3730, doi: 10.1073/pnas.1115430109

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