Archaeological culture · c. 7500–6100 BCE
Pengtoushan culture
The Pengtoushan culture of northwestern Hunan, in the middle Yangtze basin, has some of the earliest evidence of domesticated rice in China, with larger-than-wild grains dated to about 8200–7800 BCE at its type site. Its people made cord-marked pottery.
The later site of Bashidang had a wall and ditch and large amounts of rice. It lived at the same time as the Peiligang culture to the north.
See Pengtoushan culture on the map in 7500 BCE
- On the map
- 7500–6100 BCE
How we know
No writing existed; the culture is dated by radiocarbon, with wide variation between samples.
Sites
- Pengtoushan c. 7500–6100 BCE