Archaeological culture · c. 5000–3000 BCE

Yangshao culture

The Yangshao culture of the middle Yellow River, named after a village in western Henan excavated in 1921, was a culture of millet farmers in Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi. It is famous for painted red pottery and for planned villages such as Banpo and Jiangzhai in the Wei River valley, with houses arranged around open spaces and ditches round the edge.

Later phases show growing populations and larger centres.

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On the map

5000–3000 BCE