Shangshan


The Shangshan culture (Chinese: 上山遗址; pinyin: Shàngshān yízhǐ) is an early Holocene culture in the Lower Yangzi River valley in China, with more than 20 sites primarily distributed within Zhejiang Province. Shangshan site, the type site of Shangshan culture, is located at an elliptical basin of the Upper Puyang River . It has eight strata that span from the early Holocene to North Song dynasty (960–1127 CE) and the oldest horizons (Strata 5–8, 11,400–8600 cal. BP) belong to Shangshan culture. The site was found during the Neolithic sites survey along the Puyang River in 2000 and covers an area of over 2 ha. A total of 1,800 m2 has been excavated during three excavation seasons from 2001 to 2006. Shangshan is the earliest Holocene occupation in China in which residential dwellings, different kinds of pits, possible burials, pottery, stone tools, and consumption of plants in various ways occurred together.

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