A group of Neolithic communities of the upper Yellow River region in Gansu, Qinghai, and northern Sichuan, famous for elaborately painted pottery representing a peak of prehistoric Chinese ceramic art.
Gave way to successor Bronze Age cultures (e.g. Qijia) as the upper Yellow River region adopted metalworking amid a drier climate.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Majiayao Culture — the shape you scrub through changes in 3300 BC · 2299 BC.
Covers the upper Yellow River Majiayao painted-pottery sequence.