Daxi culture

The Daxi culture (Chinese大溪 文化, pinyin Daxi wenhua, English Daxi Culture) is a Neolithic culture in China. The name comes from the discovered in 1959 Daxi site in Wushan County (巫山 县), Sichuan Province ( now part of Chongqing). She was spread primarily on the Middle Yangtze River, in the mountainous area of western Hubei and eastern Chongqing, around the Dongting Lake (Hunan ) and part of the Jiang - Han plain. Several excavations in the second half of the 20th century promoted richly furnished graves revealed with grave goods from bone, jade, stone tools, and usually red pottery. It is dated to the years 4400-3300 BC.

The economic life consisted mainly of rice cultivation. Also fish played a role in the diet. The culture is the fan - dao- geng -yu饭 稻 羹 鱼type attributed, at the same time in wet rice field fish ( and ducks) are bred. The animal breeding was already quite fully developed, there were pigs, dogs, cattle, sheep and chickens bred.

Other major sites of the Daxi culture are the Chengtoushan - site (城 头 山) in the district of Li (澧县) in Hunan, which is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1996 ( 4-17 ), as well as the Sanyuangong - site ( Sānyuángōng yízhǐ三元 宫 遗址) in Hunan and the Guanmiaoshan - site ( Guānmiàoshān yízhǐ关 庙山 遗址) in Hubei.

Situated in the valley of the Yangtze River Site of Daxi will sink through the Three Gorges Dam in the floods.