The Peiligang culture (裴李崗文化) is a name given by archaeologists to a group of Neolithic communities who lived in the Yiluo river valley in Henan Province, China. The culture existed from 7000 BC to 5000 BC. Over 70 sites have been identified with the Peiligang culture. The culture is named after the site discovered in 1977 at Peiligang. Archaelogists believe that the Peiligang culture was egalitarian, with little political organization. The Neolithic, (Greek neos = new, lithos = stone, or New Stone Age) was a period in the development of human technology that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. ... Not to be confused with the unrelated provinces of Hainan and Hunan Henan (Chinese: 河南; pinyin: Hénán; Wade-Giles: Ho-nan), is a province of the Peoples Republic of China, located in the central part of the country. ... Egalitarianism is the moral doctrine that equality ought to prevail among some group along some dimension. ...

The culture practiced agriculture in the form of millet farming and animal husbandry in the form of pig raising. The culture is also one of the oldest in ancient China to make pottery. Pearl millet in the field Ripe head of proso millet The millets are a group of small-seeded species of cereal crops, widely grown around the world for food and fodder. ... Unfired green ware pottery on a traditional drying rack at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...

The site at Jiahu is one of the earliest sites associated with this culture. Jiahu (賈湖) was the site of a Neolithic Yellow River culture based in the central plains of ancient China, modern Henan Province. ...

References

• Liu, Li. The Chinese Neolithic: Trajectories to Early States, ISBN 0521811848
• the type site of Peiligang culture is Peiligang

See also

• Yangshao culture
• Longshan culture