Archaeological culture · c. 9400–6600 BCE

Shangshan culture

The Shangshan culture of the lower Yangtze, mainly in Zhejiang, is one of the earliest settled cultures of the Holocene in China. Its people lived in villages with houses and pits, made pottery tempered with rice husks, and used a broad range of foods: rice, acorns, tubers, water chestnuts, deer, boar and fish.

Residues show early use of rice, including for fermented drinks, a step on the long road to rice farming.

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9400–6600 BCE