Daxi culture
Cultura Daxi
- Date
- 1925-1959 · confidence medium
- Place
- Wushan, Chongqing, China
- Credited to
- Nels C. Nelson
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What was discovered
Neolithic culture (c. 5000-3300 BC) of the middle Yangtze, in China's Three Gorges region, defined from excavations at the eponymous Daxi site.
Wikidata attributes the find to Nels C. Nelson in the 1920s, but the Daxi type site was excavated and the culture defined by Chinese archaeologists from the late 1950s onward; that authorship claim is unconfirmed and is not carried into the entry.
What it led to
- Chronology of the Neolithic in the Yangtze valley
- Studies on the origin of the Qujialing culture
- Understanding of early rice domestication in southern China