East and Southeast Asia · Community
c. 7000-3000 BCE · Yellow River and Lower Yangzi valleys
Millet farming in the north and rice cultivation in the Yangzi basin developed as separate centers of food production. Villages of the Yangshao tradition, such as Banpo, and wetland settlements such as Hemudu show planned houses, pottery, storage and domesticated pigs and dogs.
Round and square semi-subterranean houses clustered around open areas behind ditches on loess terraces in the north; in the Lower Yangzi, wooden houses on piles stood near marshes and rice fields.
Agent citation
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAOCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDUCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
Setting and material context · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Households stored grain in pits, raised pigs and dogs, fished and gathered; cemeteries outside villages show care for the dead and changing social differences.
Agent citation
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAOCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDUCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
Lifeways and community · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
People cultivated foxtail and broomcorn millet or wetland rice, made red painted pottery and polished stone tools, wove textiles and worked wood and bone.
Agent citation
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAOCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDUCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
Work, tools and exchange · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Burials with pottery and goods suggest beliefs about the dead and kinship, but specific beliefs are not recorded and should not be read back from later texts.
Agent citation
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAOCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDUCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
Belief, ritual and evidence limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Historical geography
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Agent citation
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAOCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDUCIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
Historical-geography anchor and stated limits · 3 registered source URLs · registration is not semantic proof · audit HEM-AUDIT-20260812
Evidence register
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CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-YANGSHAO
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yangshao-culture
Encyclopaedia Britannica
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-HEMUDU
https://www.britannica.com/place/Hemudu
Encyclopaedia Britannica
CIT-ESA-BRITANNICA-DOMESTICATION
https://www.britannica.com/science/domestication
Encyclopaedia Britannica