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| Traces of this culture were first discovered in 1959 along the Dawenhe River near Dawenkou Town of Tai'an County, and Baotou Village of Ningyang County in Shandong Province. Most of the remnants lie around Mount Tai, reaching as far as the southern coast of the Bohai Sea in the north, Jiangsu Province in the south, the eastern line of the Western Plains of Shandong Province in the west, and the coast of the Yellow Sea in the east. So far, over 200 remains have been discovered and more than 10 sites (mainly tombs) unearthed. Researches have revealed that the culture lasted mainly from 4,300 B.C. to 2,500 B. C. Ancestors of Dawenkou Culture had pol-ished stoneware as their major production implements, including a large num-ber of exquisite tools of bone, horn and tooth. Pottery for everyday use was mainly red clay pottery and red sand pottery. There were gray pottery, black pottery and a small amount of white hard pottery, and colored pottery as well. During this period, production developed from manual work to wheel work. Refined pottery art crafts came into being. Agriculture constituted their chief economic activity, while fishing and hunting were subsidiary activities. Stock-breeding, such as pig, dog, cow, and chicken raising, were rather developed. The handicraft industry of Dawenkou culture had separated itself gradually from agriculture and existed all by itself. The sharp contrast between the rich and the poor was becoming more and more obvious. In the late period, there appeared the co-burial of men and women, which marked the social transition from the matriarchy to the patrilineal. |
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