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 repre ...

, 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 Tibe ...

. In 1923 and 1924, Swedish scholar J. G. Anderson discovered the sites of Banshan, Majiayao, Machang, Qijia and Xindian at Lajia on the north bank of the

Yellow River The Yellow River or Huang He (Chinese: , Mandarin: ''Huáng hé'' ) is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze River, and the sixth-longest river system in the world at the estimated length of . Originating in the Bayan Ha ...

. 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 (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, 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