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Neolithic Longshan pottery: stem cup
Neolithic Longshan pottery: stem cup Black pottery stem cup, Neolithic Longshan culture, c. late 3rd millennium bce, from Rizhao, Shandong province, China; in the Shandong Provincial Museum, Jinan. Height 10.4 inches (26.5 cm).

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Longshan culture, Neolithic culture of central China, named for the site in Shandong province where its remains were first discovered by C.T. Wu. Dating from about 2600 to 2000 bce, it is characterized by fine burnished ware in wheel-turned vessels of angular outline; abundant gray pottery; rectangular polished stone axes; walls of compressed earth; and a method of divination by heating cattle bones and interpreting the cracks. Longshan Black Pottery ware has been found in northern Henan, Anhui, Shanxi, and Shaanxi provinces and from as far away as the Liaodong Peninsula in northeastern China.

This article was most recently revised and updated by Kenneth Pletcher.