Archaeological culture · c. 3300–2000 BCE

Majiayao culture

The Majiayao culture of the upper Yellow River, in Gansu and eastern Qinghai, was a culture of farming villages famous for its painted pottery, decorated with swirling black designs and sometimes human figures, often seen as a high point of Neolithic Chinese pottery. It developed from Yangshao traditions on the western edge of the farming world of northern China.

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3300–2000 BCE