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Yang-shao
or Yang Shao
[ yahng-shou ]
adjective
, Archaeology.
- of or designating a Neolithic culture of N China c5000–3000 b.c., characterized by dwellings with sunken floors, domestication of the pig, and a fine handmade pottery painted mainly in geometric designs of spirals and circles.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Yang-shao1
After the type site at the village of Yang-shao ( Chinese Yǎngsháo cūn ), western Henan, excavated in 1921
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Example Sentences
The typical Yang-shao culture seems to have come to an end around 1600 or 1500 B.C.
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The most important of these are the Yang-shao culture in the west and the Lung-shan culture in the east.
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