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Yang-shao Archæol.|jæŋ ʃaʊ|
Also Yang Shao, Yang shao.
The name of a village in the Henan province of China, used attrib. and absol. to designate a Neolithic Chinese culture (c 5000–3000 b.c.), and its artefacts, evidence of which was first discovered there in 1921.
1923J. G. Andersson Early Chinese Culture 31, I propose that we coin a local term and name it from the type locality The Yang Shao culture. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvii. 735 Various early polychrome wares of the West have been spoken of as ‘similar’ to Yang-shao. 1965T. R. Tregear Geogr. of China ii. 47 Yang Shao pottery has several unique shapes. Ibid., Yang Shao Man lived on the loess plateau at a time when the water-table must have been much higher than it is today. 1973Genius of China 48/2 The pigment used in decorating Yang-shao bowls..was generally applied directly on the burnished clay surface. 1978Nagel's Encycl.-Guide: China 106 Proof of cultivation of cereals..exists from the Yang shao period onwards. |