In Beiwudu Township, in the northern county of Wuyang, in the province of Henan (central China), a Neolithic ensemble of Jiahu is hidden.
Through 8 archaeological excavations, a large number of Neolithic relics have been revealed, adding houses, ovens, ashtrays, tombs, pot tombs and animal pits. More than 6,000 artifacts made from fabrics such as pottery, stone, bones, horns, teeth and shells have been unearthed, along with a trove of plant and animal remains.
These finds obviously illustrate that Jiahu’s ancestors had entered a highly evolved civilization characterized by plowing agriculture, gathering and hunting, fostering an early Neolithic culture, adding rice cultivation, music and brewing.