Chinese Art History Resources: Late Neolithic China, 5000-2000 BC¹

¹Source for dates: Wikipedia (modified). There is little consensus about these dates, and the suggestions above are tentative.

Neolithic China - Web Resources
Ancient China: The Yellow River Culture. Richard Hooker, Washington State U.
Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection. Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994
Chinese Ceramics. Ulrich Theobald
Chinese Prehistory. Ulrich Theobald
Exhibition on Life and Production in Neolithic China (2011). Xinhuanet.
From Heaven and Earth: Chinese Jade in Context. Carolyn Woodford Schmidt
The Golden Age of Chinese Archchaeology: Late Prehistoric China. National Gallery of Art
History of China: Prehistoric and Xia. TravelChinaGuide.com
List of Neolithic Cultures of China, organized by geography and date, with map. Wikipedia
Monuments of China: The Neolithic Age. Mike Gunther
Neolithic Period. Princeton Art Museum
Neolithic Tomb at Dawenkou. Patricia Buckley Ebrey et al., University of Washington
Pre-Historic China. Gregory James Smits, Pennsylvania State University

Neolithic China - Museum Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
British Museum: Chinese Jade
British Museum: Neolithic China
Cleveland Museum of Art
Freer and Sackler Galleries
Kimbell Art Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Museums in China: The Neolithic Age. Mike Gunther
     Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing
     Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou
     Shandong Provincial Museum
     Gansu Provincial Museum
     Shanghai Museum
     Shanxi Provincial Museum
     Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an

Neolithic China - Image Links (click inside; all dates B.C.)

1. China - Neolithic Ceramics

Gansu 4500	Banpo 5000-4000	Banpo 5000-3000	Banshan 2500	Banshan 2400	Banshan 2300
Banshan n.d.	Machang 2200	Majiayao early 2000s	Majiayao mid 2000s	Majiayao late 2000s	Majiayao 3000-2000
Dawenkou n.d.	Dawenkou n.d.	Longshan 2500-2000	Longshan 3000-2000	Longshan 2500-2000	Qijia 2100-1700

2. China - Neolithic Jade and other neolithic artifacts

Dragon Hongshan 4700-2920	Zhulong Hongshan 4000-3000	Pendant Hongshan 4000-3000	Pendant Hongshan 3500-3000	Cong Liangzhu 3000-2000	Cong Liangzhu 3200-2000 BC	Cong Zhejiang 3000-2000
Animal n.p. 3000-2000	Axe Longshan 3000-2000	Bi Liangzhu 3300-2250	Face n.p. 2000	X-ray Pig Zhejiang 4000	Pottery Drum Shanxi 2500

[last updated: June 15, 2013]

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