Banshan was a phase of the Chinese Neolithic

Majiayao culture The Majiayao culture was a group of neolithic communities who lived primarily in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China. The culture existed from 3300 to 2000 BC. The Majiayao culture represen ...

, c. 2600 to 2300 BC. The Banshan site is in

Guanghe County Guanghe County (, Xiao'erjing: ) is a county in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture, located in the province of Gansu of the People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. I ...

Gansu Gansu (, ; alternately romanized as Kansu) is a province in Northwest China. Its capital and largest city is Lanzhou, in the southeast part of the province. The seventh-largest administrative district by area at , Gansu lies between the Tibet ...

. In 1923 and 1924, Swedish scholar J. G. Anderson discovered the sites of Banshan,

Majiayao The Majiayao culture was a group of neolithic communities who lived primarily in the upper Yellow River region in eastern Gansu, eastern Qinghai and northern Sichuan, China. The culture existed from 3300 to 2000 BC. The Majiayao culture represent ...

, Machang, Qijia and Xindian at

Lajia Lajia () is a Bronze Age archaeological site in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, on the border between the Chinese provinces of Gansu and Qinghai. As at other sites of the Qijia culture (c. 2300–1500 BCE), the people of Lajia had an agric ...

on the north bank of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Standard Beijing Mandarin, Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the List of rivers by length, sixth-longest river system in the world at th ...

. Chinese Archaeology

Gallery

File:Head, Banshan phase, Yangshao culture, neolithic China, c. 2600-2300 BC, ceramic - Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm - DSC09652.JP
Human head
part of urn from the Banshan phase of the Yangshao culture.

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( sv, Östasiatiska Museet), located in Stockholm, Sweden, is a museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) as founding director. The mus ...

(Östasiatiska museet), Stockholm. File:Banshan painted pottery pot 2.jpg, Painted pottery jug from the Banshan phase of the Yangshao culture. The

Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King The Museum of the Western Han Dynasty Mausoleum of the Nanyue King ( Cantonese: Sai Hon Nam Yuet Wong Mou Bok Mat Gun) houses the 2,000-year-old tomb of the Nanyue King Zhao Mo in Guangzhou. Zhao Mo ruled from 137 BC to 122 BC, and his tomb ...

, Guangzhou, China. File:Burial site reconstruction, Bianjiagou, Gansu province, China, neolithic Yangshao culture, ceramic pots, grind stones, human skeleton - Östasiatiska museet, Stockholm - DSC09659.jpg, Reconstruction of a Banshan phase burial site in the

Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm The Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities ( sv, Östasiatiska Museet), located in Stockholm, Sweden, is a museum launched by Sweden's Parliament in 1926, with the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) as founding director. The mus ...

References

{{Neolithic cultures of China Neolithic cultures of China 26th-century BC establishments History of Gansu Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture