Yangtze civilization

Yangtze basin

Asian rice, grown since the 9th millennium BC

Skeleton and burial vessels of the Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BC)

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 in China, a contemporary civilization by the neighboring Yellow River civilization.

Cultures

Upper Yangtze

• Pengtoushan culture (7000–6100 BCE)
• Daxi culture (5000–3000 BCE)
• Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BCE)
• Shijiahe culture (2500–2000 BCE)

Lower Yangtze

• Hemudu culture (5500–3300 BCE)
• Majiabang culture (5000–3300 BCE)
• Songze culture (3800–3300 BCE)
• Liangzhu culture (3300–2300 BCE)
• Wucheng culture (1600 BCE–?)

See also

• Yellow river civilization
• Liao civilization
• Prehistory of China