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Qujialing Culture

A middle-Yangtze Neolithic culture centered on the Jianghan Plain of Hubei, known for eggshell-thin painted pottery, spindle whorls, and early rammed-earth settlement enclosures.

Succeeded by the Shijiahe culture in the same middle-Yangtze region.

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Further reading

• The Archaeology of China: From the Late Paleolithic to the Early Bronze Age Li Liu and Xingcan Chen · 2012

  Covers the middle-Yangtze Qujialing/Shijiahe sequence.

Sources

• Wikipedia, 'Qujialing culture'
• Wikidata Q1153210 (dates) and Q11042270 (type site, for centroid)