LUNG-SHAN CULTURE

Pinyin Longshan, Neolithic culture of central China, named for the site in Shantung Province where its remains were first discovered by C.T. Wu. Dating from about 3000 BC to the mid-2nd millennium BC, 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. Lung-shan Black Pottery ware has been found in northern Honan, Anhwei, and as far away as the Kwantung Peninsula in the northeast.