The Dawenkou Culture is a Neolithic Age culture. It is named after the Dawenkou ruins in Tai'an City, Shandong Province. The distribution area extends from the coast of the Yellow Sea in the east, to the eastern part of the Luxi Plain in the west, to the south coast of the Bohai Sea in the north, and to the Huaibei area of ??Jiangsu in the south. It is basically in the Shaohao culture area recorded in ancient books. In addition, sites of this cultural type have also been found in Henan and northern Anhui. According to radiocarbon dating and correction data, the Dawenkou Culture dates from about 6,500 to 4,500 years ago and lasted about 2,000 years. According to the stratigraphic stacking relationship and relic characteristics, it can be divided into three phases: early, middle and late.
Distribution range
The early stage of Dawenkou Culture was basically only distributed in Shandong and northern Jiangsu. Its southern boundary was no more than the Yellow River, and it reached the northern Shandong area in the north. Its western boundary was On both sides of the canal, it reaches the Yellow Sea in the east. However, there have always been different opinions on the nature of the early cultural remains in the Jiaodong Peninsula.
In the middle stage of the Dawenkou Culture, there were no major changes in the southern and northern boundaries of the distribution range, but there are signs that the trend of westward expansion may have begun at that time. At this time, academic circles still have different views on the nature of the remains of the Jiaodong Peninsula during the same period, but the mainstream opinion is that in the middle period of the Dawenkou Culture, the culture of the Jiaodong Peninsula "belonged to different types of the Dawenkou Culture."
Remains of the late Dawenkou Culture have been generally found in northern Anhui and eastern Henan. Relics clearly belonging to the late Dawenkou Culture have been excavated in Pingliangtai, Luyi, Luyi, Yuchi Temple, etc. in Huaiyang. of bottom accumulation. In other words, the distribution range of the late Dawenkou Culture has expanded westward to the Huaiyang area. As for the central Henan region and the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula, although many remains containing Dawenkou cultural elements and even individual Dawenkou tombs have been discovered, the overall nature of the local culture has not been changed. Therefore, these areas do not belong to The distribution area of ??Dawenkou Culture can only be said to be the area affected by the influence of Dawenkou Culture.