Yangtze civilization (simplified Chinese: 长江文明; traditional Chinese: 長江文明) is a generic name for various ancient Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures from the Yangtze basin in China, a contemporary civilization by the neighboring Yellow River civilization.
Cultures
Upper Yangtze
- Pengtoushan culture (7000–6100 BCE)
- Daxi culture (5000–3000 BCE)
- Qujialing culture (3400–2600 BCE)
- Shijiahe culture (2500–2000 BCE)
Lower Yangtze
- Hemudu culture (5500–3300 BCE)
- Majiabang culture (5000–3300 BCE)
- Songze culture (3800–3300 BCE)
- Liangzhu culture (3300–2300 BCE)
- Wucheng culture (1600 BCE–?)
See also
- Yellow river civilization
- Liao civilization
- Prehistory of China
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