Hongshan culture

Hongshan culture
	-3000 SUMER Proto-; Elamite EBLA Jeul-; mun INDUS; VALLEY; CIVILIZATION Corded Ware; Culture Yamnaya; Culture Kura-; Araxes Afanasievo; culture Botai; culture Bolshemys; culture Sarazm; culture Ancient; Northeast Asians Hongshan Long-; shan Dawen-; kou Liang-; zhu Majia-; yao Qujia-; ling EARLY; DYNASTIC; EGYPT ◁ ▷ The Hongshan culture and other contemporary cultures c. 3000 BC
Period	Neolithic
Dates	c. 4700 to 2900 BC
Preceded by	Xinglongwa culture, Xinle culture, Zhaobaogou culture
Followed by	Xiaoheyan (3000-2000 BCE); Lower Xiajiadian culture (2200-1600 BCE); Upper Xiajiadian culture (1000-600 BCE)

The Hongshan culture (simplified Chinese: 红山文化; traditional Chinese: 紅山文化; pinyin: Hóngshān wénhuà) was a Neolithic culture in the West Liao river basin in northeast China. Hongshan sites have been found in an area stretching from Inner Mongolia to Liaoning, and dated from about 4700 to 2900 BC.

The culture is named after Hongshanhou (simplified Chinese: 红山后; traditional Chinese: 紅山後; pinyin: Hóngshān hòu), a site in Hongshan District, Chifeng. The Hongshanhou site was discovered by the Japanese archaeologist Torii Ryūzō in 1908 and extensively excavated in 1935 by Kōsaku Hamada and Mizuno Seiichi.

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