Word: yangshao
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...ancestors of the Chinese had begun farming along the Yellow River in the north as early as 7000 B.C. Excavations at Banpo and other sites show that by the Iceman's day, farmers of the Yangshao culture were living in semiunderground circular huts built of mud and timbers on terraces overlooking the water. Communities were divided into living areas; large kilns, 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...
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