Banshan was a phase of the Chinese Neolithic Majiayao culture, c. 2600 to 2300 BC. The Banshan site is in Guanghe County,

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, Machang, Qijia and Xindian at Lajia on the north bank of the Yellow River. 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

References

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