Majiayao culture

The Majiayao culture (Chinese马 家窑 文化/马 家窑 文化, pinyin Mǎjiāyáo Wenhua, English Majiayao Culture) is a late Neolithic culture in the region of the upper Yellow River in Gansu and Qinghai, China. It is according to the radiocarbon dating method to the period of 3000-2000 BC.

Previously it was called " Yangshao culture of Gansu " (甘肃 仰韶文化Yǎngsháo Gansu Wenhua ) refers. According to their different sites of the three types Majiayao (马 家窑Mǎjiāyáo ) Banshan (半山Banshan ) and Machang were formerly distinguished (马 厂Mǎchǎng ), today however, the findings of the latter two sites of Banshan - Machang Culture (半山-马 厂 文化Banshan - Mǎchǎng Wenhua ) attributed.

The Majiayao culture was in 1923 for the first time in Majiayao, Lintao county (临洮 县), Gansu Province discovered, hence their name. She was mainly distributed in the catchment area of the rivers Tao He (洮河Tao Hé ) and Daxie He (大 夏河Daxia Hé ) in Gansu Province and the Huang Shui (湟 水Huang Shuǐ ) in Qinghai Province.

Agriculture was their most important economic factor. There were stone tools and bone tools used. The pottery is often painted with black decor, the patterns are not those of the colored decorated ceramics ( cǎitáo ) of the Yangshao Culture identical.

The Majiayao - site (马 家窑 遗址Mǎjiāyáo yízhǐ ) in a circle Lintao ( Gansu ) Open since 1988 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China, the Gold Riverside - site ( Linjia Yizhi林 家 遗址) in the Autonomous District of Dongxiang ( Gansu ) since 2006.