Yang-shao

or Yang Shao

[ yahng-shou ]

adjective

, Archaeology.

1. of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Yang-shao¹

After the type site at the village of Yang-shao ( Chinese Yǎngsháo cūn ), western Henan, excavated in 1921

Example Sentences

The most important of these are the Yang-shao culture in the west and the Lung-shan culture in the east.

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The Yang-shao culture takes its name from a prehistoric settlement in the west of the present province of Honan, where Swedish investigators discovered it.

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On the cultural scene we first find an important element of progress: bronze, in traces in the middle layers of the Yang-shao culture, about 1800 B.C.; that element had become very widespread by 1400 B.C.

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Their culture was closely related to that of Yang-shao, the previously described painted-pottery culture, with, of course, the progress brought by time.

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The typical Yang-shao culture seems to have come to an end around 1600 or 1500 B.C.

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