Yangtze civilization

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.

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

Cultures

Upper Yangtze

Lower Yangtze

See also

References

  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.
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