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expanded to a vast area from the middle to the lower Yellow River Valley by 7000 years b.p. (Lu 1999). Many archaeological assemblages with foxtail millet remains have been found in the Yellow and the Yangzi River valleys and Tibet, with the Yellow River Valley being the core area (Table 1). Based on the culti-
- Discovery & Name
- The Neolithic Village
- The Culture
- Farming, Ceramics, & Clothing
- Marriage & Childrearing
- Writing
- Conclusion
In 1953 CE local workers were hired to dig the foundation for a factory that was to be built at the site. The name means `half slope' and comes from the area near the site. Historian Marilyn Shea writes that the village gets it name from the Banpo work group who uncovered it and how, "once the find was identified, the work group changed occupations...
Archaeologists have designated Banpo a type site, which means a representative model of a particular culture, in this case the Yangshao Culture, which flourished in the Yellow River Valley between 5000-3000 BCE. Banpo is a ditch-enclosed settlement that was surrounded by a moat. The homes were dug to three feet (1 meter) below ground level and the ...
The Yangshao Culture was matrilineal, meaning that women were in charge and one's ancestry was traced through the mother's line, not the father's. Although western scholars have disputed this claim as some "Marxist invention," the physical evidence from Banpo speaks for itself: every female's gravethat has been opened has more grave goods than the ...
The people of Banpo were hunter-gatherers who then shifted to an agrarian culture (farming). Farm implements like sickles and plows have been found on site. They ate primarily millet (cereals) and kept domesticated dogs and pigs. They were primarily vegetarian (like most Neolithic cultures) although there is evidence of occasional meat-eating from ...
Women and men wore ornaments and jewelry but the females more than the males. Their marriages were arranged quite differently from the pattern most people recognize today. Archaeological evidence strongly suggests they practiced what the Chinese call zouhun- "free love" - which is sexual relations without commitment. Men would visit women's homes a...
Banpo may have developed a system of writing long before the traditional date of the rise of literacy in China during the Shang Dynasty(1600-1046 BCE). Scratch marks on ceramic shards have been classified into 27 distinct categories, which suggest a form of communication and are not at all random. What the scratch marks may mean is unknown, and arc...
Banpo Village was abandoned at some point c. 3750 BCE. No satisfactory reason has been found for the people leaving their homes. Evidence of ancient flood damage at the site is inconclusive because there is no way of knowing whether it happened before or after the people left. The village was abandoned quickly, however, and so a flood may have been...
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A wide range of utilitarian and status objects are found in the Yellow River Bronze Age Tradition: woven textiles (e.g. flax); chipped and ground stone tools for farming; bone and shell tools; ceramics (including proto-porcelain early in the tradition); weapons and ritual items of copper and bronze; ritual objects of jade; and a variety of high ...
The Origins of Millet Cultivation: the Yellow River Valley In the Yellow River region, hunter-gatherers lived in caves and on open river terraces during the last Ice Age (c. 36,000-16,000 BC). Arrowheads found at sites here were probably used to hunt wild sheep and cattle, the bones of which are present.
