Migration, Diffusion, and Trade: Potting in Neolithic NW China

Summary

Painted pottery traditions in Neolithic Northwest China emerged through diverse processes of human migration, technical transmission, style imitation, and material exchange. Starting around 6000 years BP, Yangshao farming communities expanded incrementally farther upstream along the Upper Yellow River drainage and westward along the Hexi Corridor. The painted pottery tradition introduced by Yangshao immigrants developed into different chronological and regional styles in Northwest China over the course of several thousand years. Additionally, as exemplified at the famous Liuwan site, our inter-disciplinary study demonstrates that cultural assimilation and material exchange played important roles in the spread of painted pottery known as Majiayao, Banshan, and Machang. These multiple lines of evidence support a new synthesis about the production and circulation of Neolithic painted pottery in Northwest China.

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• New Insights into Painted Pottery from Northwest China

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