The excavation of Zone III of the Xiaonanshan site in Raohe County, Heilongjiang Province in 2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-96
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Early Phase ◽  
Heilongjiang Province ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Lithic Tools ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Neolithic Cultures ◽  
Cultural Relics

AbstractIn 2015, the Heilongjiang Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology excavated at Xiaonanshan site on the bank of Ussuri River in southeast Raohe County, Heilongjiang Province. The excavation was conducted in three zones, with nine Neolithic burials recovered in Zone III. Most burials were in northeast-southwest orientation and consisted of two parts: a cairn above ground, and a grave below the cairn. Pottery wares, lithic tools, and jades were unearthed from these burials. The cultural remains represented by these eight early phase burials are the first of their kind discovered in China and represent a new archaeological culture: the Xiaonanshan culture. The 14C data of this culture provided dates of 7,890±30 BP and 8,150±30 BP, preceding Xinkailiu culture. This excavation has filled a blank on early Neolithic cultures in eastern Heilongjiang and provided new materials for the studies on the origination and diffusion of the jade culture in East Asia.

scholarly journals Some Data on Pottery of Osipovskaya and Mariinskaya Cultures of the Lower Amur Region

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ю.Б. Цетлин ◽  
В.Е. Медведев
Keyword(s):  
Amur Region ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Technological Processes ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Lower Amur Region ◽  
Ethnocultural Groups ◽  
History Of ◽  
Neolithic Cultures ◽  
Comprehensive Study

Статья посвящена результатам всестороннего изучения гончарных традиций в технологии, формах и орнаментации посуды у носителей осиповской и мариинской неолитических культур в российском Приамурье. Осиповская культура является древнейшей на земном шаре, и ее керамика отражает первые этапы становления гончарного производства в истории человечества. Керамика мариинской культуры характеризует следующий этап развития гончарства и относится к раннему неолиту на этой территории. Авторы приходят к выводу, что эти культуры оставлены разными в этнокультурном плане группами древнего населения. The paper describes results of the comprehensive study of pottery traditions through the prism of technological processes, shapes and ornamentation of vessels developed by the Osipovka and Mariinskoye Neolithic cultures in the Russian Amur Region. The Osipovka culture is the earliest on our planet and its pottery reflects first stages of pottery development in the history of humanity. The Mariinskoye pottery characterizes the next period of pottery development and is dated to the Early Neolithic of this region. The authors conclude that these cultures were left behind by different ethnocultural groups of the earliest population.

scholarly journals Materials of the early Neolithic of the Yarlukovskaya Protoka site (point 222) on the Upper Don

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 220-229
Author(s):  
Roman Viktorovich Smolyaninov ◽  
Aleksey Aleksandrovich Kulichkov ◽  
Elizaveta Sergeevna Yurkina
Keyword(s):  
Silty Clay ◽  
Mixed Complex ◽  
Cultural Layer ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Left Tributary ◽  
Clay Ceramics ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Neolithic Cultures

This paper analyzes materials located in the floodplain of the Matyra River (left tributary of the Voronezh River) of the Yarlukovskaya Protoka (point 222) in the Gryazinsky District of the Lipetsk Region. It was investigated in 1963, 1964, 1967 and 1968 by Vsevolod Levenok. The materials of three early Neolithic cultures of VI Millennium BC were revealed here. The materials of the Yelshanskaya culture are represented by corollas and bottoms of 12 vessels. Almost all dishes, except one bottom and several walls, have no ornament, with the exception of one or two rows of conical pit. All ceramics are well smoothed. Ceramics were made from silty clay. The location of materials in the cultural layer confirms the earlier occurrence of the Yelshanskaya culture ceramics. The ceramics of the Karamyshevo culture is represented by fragments from three vessels. The dishes are predominantly decorated with small oval pricks composed in horizontal and vertical rows. Ceramics were made from silty clay. Ceramics of the Srednedonskaya culture are represented by corollas and rounded bottoms of 15 vessels. It is decorated with triangular prick or small comb prints. Ceramics were made from silty clay. At Yarlukovskaya Protoka site 304 stone artifacts were discovered, mainly of flint. This industry could be described as flake-blade technique. The monument is a mixed complex - stratigraphic and planigraphic readable observations of stone inventory location could not be done.

The Diffusion Route and Chronology of Korean Plant Domestication

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 519-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chong-pil Choe
Keyword(s):  
Oryza Sativa ◽  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Food Production ◽  
North China ◽  
Plant Domestication ◽  
Sorghum Vulgare ◽  
North And South ◽  
And Diffusion

Problems concerning the emergence and geographical diffusion of food production in East Asia have long interested archaeologists and historians. However, attempts to reconstruct the chronology and diffusion routes from the so-called nuclear zones of both North and South China through the Korean peninsula and Japan have been less than convincing. In North China, the crops involved were millet (Setaria italica) and kaoliang (Sorghum vulgare); in South China, rice (Oryza sativa japonica and indica).

Excavation of the Neolithic city site at Zhangxiwan in Huangpi District, Wuhan

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultu
Keyword(s):  
Early Phase ◽  
Yangtze River ◽  
The Yangtze River ◽  
Middle Reach ◽  
Development Processes ◽  
City Walls ◽  
The City ◽  
Three Phases ◽  
Cultural Relics

AbstractIn 2008, Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions excavated Zhangxiwan Site, which is the latest and the easternmost Neolithic city site in the middle reach of the Yangtze River known to date. Based on the features of the potteries unearthed in the city site, the cultural remains of this city site can be divided into three phases corresponding to the early, middle and late phases of Shijiahe Culture. The city walls began to be built roughly in the early phase of Shijiahe Culture, but it was abandoned in the middle or late phases of Shijiahe Culture. The discovery of Zhangxiwan City Site provided important materials and brand-new prospect for the understandings to the development processes of the prehistoric cities and the deep causes of their construction and abandonment and the process of the civilization during the prehistoric period in the middle reach of the Yangtze River.

Earthen Long Barrows and Timber Structures: Aspects of the Early Neolithic Mortuary Practice in Denmark

1979 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 301-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Torsten Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Northern Europe ◽  
Timber Structures ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Mortuary Practice ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Derivative System ◽  
The Many ◽  
Neolithic Cultures ◽  
Early Phases

More than twenty years have elapsed since Stuart Piggott suggested the possibility of a connection between the primary Neolithic cultures of Britain and the early phases of the Funnel necked Beaker (TRB) Culture of northern Europe (Piggott 1956). What appeared at that time to many scholars, not least in Denmark, to be a very far fetched idea, must today in the light of the many new Danish excavations be considered seriously. Piggott pointed to three categories of finds which could possibly be advanced as indicators of contact: Pottery, causewayed camps and ‘unchambered’ earthen long barrows. In all three areas decisive new results have been obtained, and although this paper deals with the earthen long barrows, both the pottery and the causewayed camps will be briefly commented upon.C. J. Becker's division of the Danish early Neolithic pottery into four major classes, the A, B, non-megalithic and megalithic C types of pottery, is still useable for the general categorization of site inventories (Becker 1948). The neat derivative system that he built, with A originating somewhere in eastern Europe, followed by B, and terminating with two contemporary C-groups, is however no longer warranted, and especially not with reference to the radiocarbon dates. Nor can the clear-cut typological division of the pottery into the four groups be maintained, since many types of pots and ornamentation occur in more than one group. For instance the B type beaker, with lines of twisted cord beneath the rim, is an integral part of the inventory of non-megalithic C sites, and also occurs in connection with megalithic C pottery.

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