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The Xianren Cave (Chinese: 仙人洞, Xiānréndòng), together with the nearby Diaotonghuan (Chinese: 吊桶环, Diàotǒnghuán) rock shelter, is an archaeological site in Dayuan Township (大源乡), Wannian County in the Jiangxi province, China [1] and a location of historically important discoveries of prehistoric pottery shards that bears evidence of early rice cultivation.
Yuchanyan is an early Neolithic cave site in Dao County (Daoxian), Hunan, China. The site yielded sherds of ceramic vessels and other artifacts which were dated by analysis of charcoal and bone collagen, giving a date range of 17,500 to 18,300 years old for the pottery. [2] The pottery specimens may be the oldest known examples of pottery. [3]
Yue ware stoneware, China, Five Dynasties, 10th century CE. Yue ware or Yüeh ware (Chinese: 越(州)窯; pinyin: Yuè(zhōu) yáo; Wade–Giles: Yüeh(-chou) yao) is a type of Chinese ceramics, a felspathic siliceous stoneware, which is characteristically decorated with celadon glazing.
Pottery dating from 20,000 years ago was found at the Xianrendong Cave site in Jiangxi province, [9] [10] making it among the earliest pottery yet found. Another reported find is from 17,000 to 18,000 years ago in the Yuchanyan Cave in southern China.
Several red pottery artifacts found at the ancient family’s tombs. Archaeologists described the 1,800-year-old family tombs as a significant and important discovery.
The hilly, wooded, area provided slopes for dragon kilns to run up, and fuel for them, [2] and was near major ports. The area has been producing pottery since the Neolithic , and over 100 kiln-sites have now been excavated, but large-scale production of a variety of wares began under the late Ming dynasty , and continues to the present. [ 3 ]
Neolithic cultures in China 3000–2000 BC. Bronze technology was imported to China from the steppes. [24] The oldest bronze object found in China was a knife found at a Majiayao site in Dongxiang, Gansu, and dated to 2900–2740 BC. [25] Further copper and bronze objects have been found at Machang-period sites in Gansu. [26]
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