Pengtoushan culture
The Pengtoushan culture (彭頭山文化) (7500-6100 BC[1]) was a Neolithic culture centered primarily around the central Yangtze River region in northwestern Hunan, China. Pengtoushan was roughly contemporaneous with its northern neighbor, the Peiligang culture. The two primary examples of Pengtoushan culture are the type site at Pengtoushan and the later site at Bashidang.
The type site at Pengtoushan was discovered in Li County, Hunan, China. The site is the earliest permanently settled village yet discovered in China.[2] The site was excavated in 1988. Pengtoushan has been difficult to date accurately, with a large variability in dates ranging from 9000 BC to 5500 BC.[2] Cord-marked pottery was discovered among the burial goods.
Analysis of Chinese rice residues which were C14 dated to 8200-7800 BCE show that rice had been domesticated by this time.[3] The size of the Pengtoushan rice was larger than the size of naturally-occurring, wild rice; however, Pengtoushan lacked evidence of tools used in cultivating rice. Although not found at Pengtoushan, rice-cultivating tools were found in later sites associated with the Pengtoushan culture.
See also
Notes
- ^ Miriam T. Stark (2006). Archaeology of Asia. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 84. ISBN 1405102128.
- ^ a b Charles Higham (1996). The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia. Cambridge University Press. p. 63. ISBN 0521565057.
- ^ Kwang-chih Chang, Pingfang Xu, Sarah Allan, Liancheng Lu (2005). The Formation of Chinese Civilization. Yale University Press. p. 298. ISBN 0300093829.
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References
- Allan, Sarah (ed), The Formation of Chinese Civilization: An Archaeological Perspective, ISBN 0-300-09382-9
- Higham, Charles, The Bronze Age of Southeast Asia, ISBN 0-521-56505-7
- Stark, Miriam T. (ed), Archaeology of Asia, ISBN 1-4051-0213-6