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English: Black Pottery Cauldron
  • Hemudu Culture
  • Neolithic Period (ca. 5000 - 3000 B.C.)
  • Excavated at Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, 1973
The Hemudu Culture, which was located along the lower reaches of the Yangzi River, formed these cooking cauldrons from built-up layers of clay flakes, which were decorated with an overlapping rope pattern. They were placed over open fires.
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