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Chapter 2

The Lungshanoid Cultures

The great number of Neolithic sites i n China which

have been discovered i n the last one or two decades have

been classified into several different local cultures,

such as the Ta-wen-k»ou culture, the Ch'u-chia-ling

culture, and the Ch'ing-lien-kang culture (KKYCS 1 9 6 1 ) .

A l l these cultures somehow share a similarity to Lungshan-

l i k e sites i n the north; that i s , they represent a mixed

or transitional culture between Yangshao and Lungshan.

K.C. Chang (1959) terms the culture at these sites

Lungshanoid. According to Chang (19681 144), these Lung-

shanoid cultures are distributed i n approximately the same

area as the Yangshao Culture and the Classic Lungshan

Culture i n the north as well as along the southeast coast

of China including Centralsand Southwest Taiwan. As a

matter of fact, the name "Lungshanoid" i s the by-product

of his earlier hypothesis of the rapid expansion of advanced

village farmers from the North China Nuclear Area south-