Yangshao
The Neolithic culture of Yangshao , located in China of North, was discovered in 1920 by the Swedish archeologist J. - G. Andersson. The site which he excavated found at the village of Yangshao, in the north of Henan, not far from the Yellow River. Since, a thousand of sites were put at the day, of the Liaoning to the Gansu. The datings with carbon-14 go from -5150 to -2960. The analysis of the ceramics styles made it possible to distinguish several phases. All these potteries, however, are characterized by their reddish color, on which reasons in black or brown sinks were drawn. There are bowls, earthenware jars, jugs and ballot boxes. The polychrome painted pottery is characterized by impressions of basket makings and ropes. The men of Yangshao had of textiles and basket makings. They cultivated the millet, as well as Chinese cabbages, with stone tools. They raised pigs and dogs, but hunting continued to play a paramount role. Their villages, very many, were opened or surrounded by a ditch, as with Banpo, and were made of round or rectangular constructions out of clay on reinforcements out of wooden.
The presence of Shamans is attested. In his tomb, a man was placed between two representations of animals, a dragon on his left and a tiger on his line, carried out with shells. In the Baopuzi , work of the third century of our era, it is written that the priests taoists employ tigers, dragons or stags to accomplish their voyages to the sky, where they meet gods and ancestors. These “voyages extatic” have a chamanic origin.
At the time of Yangshao, China profited from a hotter and wet climate that now. Forests of bamboos allowed the Panda S giants of living in China of North. In addition to the tiger S, the black Bears and the leopard S, the back-countries of mountains and forests sheltered Rhinocéros, elephant S, Macaque S, Chacal S and Paon S, animals which it is now necessary to seek in the valley of the Yangzi. The latter included/understood mangroves then.
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