Yangshao

Site of a Neolithic culture in Henan, in the Huang He (Yellow River) region of northern China. Discovered in the 1920s, the culture dates from the 4th–3rd millennia BC. Polished stone axes and knives and red-burnished pottery were used by millet-growing farming communities who practised terracing and lived in semi-subterranean timber and thatched houses in clustered hamlets.

Pigs and dogs were domesticated and hemp and silk spun and woven into cloth.