Yangtze civilization

Yangtze basin
Asian rice, grown since the 9th millennium BC
Skeleton and burial vessels of the Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BC)

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 of China, the representative civilization of the Chinese alongside the Yellow River civilization.

Cultures[edit]

Upper Yangtze[edit]

Lower Yangtze[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Wang, Haiming (2001), "Majiabang", in Peregrine, Peter N.; Ember, Martin, Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 3: East Asia and Oceania, Springer, pp. 206–221, ISBN 978-0-306-46257-3.