Cradle of China

Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

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entries

10

eras

44

places

Henan is where a great deal of Chinese history happened first: farming villages, bronze capitals, the earliest writing, cave temples, the Song court. This page puts those events on one line you can filter — and on one map you can pin them to.

1 entries · Sanmenxia

Only showing Sanmenxia · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Prehistoricc. 7000–2000 BCE

1 entries

Farming villages, bone flutes and painted pottery along the Yellow River.

  1. c. 5000 BCESites

    Yangshao village gives a culture its name

    仰韶村：一个文化的命名地

    Painted pottery and settled villages excavated at Yangshao in 1921 defined the first Neolithic culture named in China.

    Sanmenxia