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Word: longshan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1992-1992
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...which turned out distinctive painted pottery; and cemeteries. The Yangshao buried goods with their dead, indicating a belief in the afterlife, but the homogeneity of the buried objects suggests that social classes had not yet appeared. Like the other principal culture of that region and time, known as the Longshan, the Yangshao kept pigs, sheep, chicken, buffalo and oxen, and used finely crafted tools made from stone, bone and wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World in 3300 B.C. | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

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