Songze culture

Songze Culture

Geographical range	Eastern China
Period	Neolithic China
Dates	c. 3800 – c. 3300 BCE
Preceded by	Majiabang culture
Followed by	Liangzhu culture
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	崧澤文化
Simplified Chinese	崧泽文化
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Sōngzé wénhuà

Grey pottery wine vessel of the Songze culture, 3800~3200 BCE

Songze culture was a matriarchal Chinese Neolithic culture that existed between 3800 and 3300 BCE in the Lake Tai area near Shanghai.^[1][2]

In 1957, at Zhaoxiang Town in Shanghai's Qingpu District, archaeologists discoved a Songze culture village on top of an earlier settlement attributed to the Majiabang culture.,^[3] Though it is also said to be a successor phase to Hemudu culture.^[4]

References

1. Wang (2001), p. 220.
2. Qin (2013), p. 578.
3. "The Songze Culture Site". Shanghai Qingpu Museum. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
4. Goodenough, Ward Hunt (1996). Prehistoric Settlement of the Pacific, Volume 86, Part 5. American Philosophical Societ. p. 45.

• Qin, Ling (2013), "The Liangzhu culture", in Underhill, Anne P., A Companion to Chinese Archaeology, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 574–596, ISBN 978-1-118-32572-8.
• Wang, Haiming (2001), "Majiabang", in Peregrine, Peter N.; Ember, Martin, Encyclopedia of Prehistory, Volume 3: East Asia and Oceania, Springer, pp. 206–221, ISBN 978-0-306-46257-3.