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The Dawenkou Tradition occurred in the lower Yellow River valley of China from 6300 to 4500 BP. (4300 BC - 2500 BC). The people were sedentary agriculturalists growing millet and raising domesticated animals They supplemented their diet with wild deer, birds, and fish. They made stone tools, ceramics and jade ornaments. Burials indicate the presence of hereditary status and possibly social classes.

The archaeology of ancient China

Burials, pigs, and political prestige in neolithic China

Dawenkou

Juxian Dazhujia Cun Dawenkou Wenhua Muzang

Zaozhuang Jianxin

Tradition summary

An analysis of mortuary ritual at the Dawenkou site, Shandong, China

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Author	Title	Publication Date
Chang, Kwang-chih	The archaeology of ancient China	1986
Kim, Seung-Og	Burials, pigs, and political prestige in neolithic China	1994
Luan, Fengshi	Dawenkou	1996
Shandong Institute of Archaeology	Juxian Dazhujia Cun Dawenkou Wenhua Muzang	1991
Shandong Province Institute of Archaeology, and the Bureau for the Protection of Cultural Relics	Zaozhuang Jianxin	1996
Underhill, Anne P.	Tradition summary	1999
Underhill, Anne P.	An analysis of mortuary ritual at the Dawenkou site, Shandong, China	No publication date

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