Marked Banpo, Xi’an

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Villages of the Yellow River

Farmers of the Yangshao culture grew millet, kept pigs and dogs, and lived in villages of round houses along the Yellow River. Their painted pottery is some of the finest of its time.

Place
Banpo, Xi’an · Yangshao village, Henan · Jiangzhai, ShaanxiAsia
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
4 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IBanpo village
  2. IIMillet and pigs
  3. IIIPainted pots
  4. IVSigns on pottery: the start of writing?

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Johan Gunnar Andersson

Objects

  • A painted basin with a human face and fish

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

5000 BC to 3000 BC. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?