Niuheliang
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thumb|Female torso, 3500 BC, Hongshan Culture, Liaoning, 1982. Height 7.8 cm. Red brown terracotta. National Museum of China
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It sits within the topics Chinese pottery, Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Liaoning and National archaeological parks of China.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- archaeological site
- Country
- China
- Image
- Neolithic pottery pregnant woman, Hongshan Culture, Liaoning, 1982.JPG
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- catalog code
- 195
- heritage designation
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Description
- Temple
- Interpretation
- Pyramidal structure
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
thumb|Female torso, 3500 BC, Hongshan Culture, Liaoning, 1982. Height 7.8 cm. Red brown terracotta. National Museum of China
Niuheliang () is a Neolithic archaeological site in Liaoning Province, Northeast China, along the middle and upper reaches of the Laoha River and the Yingjin River (presently on the border of Chaoyang and Jianping County). Discovered in 1983, the Niuheliang site belongs to the Hongshan culture (4700–2900 BC). It includes evidence of religion, such as a temple, an altar and a cairn.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Niuheliang” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations