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Yangtze civilization (simplified Chinese: 长江文明; traditional Chinese: 長江文明) is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the Yangtze basin in China, a contemporary civilization by the neighboring Yellow River civilization.
East-south-eastern China (lower Yangtze): Zhejiang and biggest part of Jiangsu. South-central China (middle Yangtze): Hubei and northern part of Hunan. Sichuan and upper Yangtze. Southeast China: Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangdong, Guangxi, southern part of Hunan, lower Red River in the northern part of Vietnam and the island of Taiwan.
The earliest evidence of cultivated rice, found by the Yangtze River, was carbon-dated to 8,000 years ago. [10] Early evidence for millet agriculture in the Yellow River valley was radiocarbon-dated to about 7000 BC. [11] The Jiahu site is one of the best preserved early agricultural villages (7000 to 5800 BC).
The Longshan culture of Henan occupied the Jinnan and Ji'nan regions, mainly along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. The intermediate type from Yangshao culture to Longshan culture in Henan is the Miaodigou II in the border area of Henan, Jin and Shaanxi, whose carbon 14 date is 2310±95 years BCE (corrected to 2780±145 years ...
The Liangzhu (/ ˈ l j ɑː ŋ ˈ dʒ uː /) culture or civilization (3300–2300 BC) was the last Chinese Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta.The culture was highly stratified, as jade, silk, ivory and lacquer artifacts were found exclusively in elite burials, while pottery was more commonly found in the burial plots of poorer individuals.
The primitive culture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was named "Liangzhu culture" by Xia Nai in 1959. This notion gradually gained recognition following the discoveries of Liangzhu aristocratic tombs at numerous locations. [12] Intricate miniature carvings in Liangzhu jade discovered at Fanshan site in the 1980s [11]
The Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BC) was a Neolithic civilisation centered primarily on the middle Yangtze River region in Hubei and Hunan, China. The culture succeeded the Daxi culture and reached southern Shaanxi , northern Jiangxi and southwest Henan .
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...