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NEOLITHIC
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Mxr 2 Oini in the NeoUthic period
arts of farming, horticulture, and pottery making. Each new dis-
covery pushes the Neolithic revolution further back. At the time
of this writing, the most important early sites are those of the
"P'ei-li-kang culture." P'ci-li-kang is a village near Loyang. Most
of the sites of this culture have been found in southern Hopci and
northern Honan, making this area truly the cradle of Chinese civ-
ilisation. House floors, cemeteries, evidence of the domestication
of animals have been found, while the kilns produced a crude pot-
tery decorated with scratched designs. By carbon-14 dating ar-
chaeologists have put the P'ci-li-kang culture at around 6000 to
5000 B.C.
The next stage in the evolution of early Chinese civilisation has
been known for over sixty years—ever since J. Gunnar Anders-
son, searching for minerals in Honan, discovered at the village of
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