Majiabang

A Neolithic site and culture of Jiaxing, China, near Shanghai. The people are descendants of the 5th millennium BC Ho-mu-tu in the region south of the Yangtze near Shanghai. The early phase yielded a radiocarbon date of c 4000 BC. It had close ties with the Ch'ing-lien-kang culture in southern Kiangsu, northern Chekiang, and Shanghai. The successor to the Majiabang culture is the 3rd millennium BC Liangzhu culture. The earliest examples of jade from the lower Yangtze River region appear in the latter phases of Ma-chia-pang culture (c 5100-3900 BC).

[Ma-chia-pang]. A Neolithic site in Jiaxing, northern Zhejiang province, China, near Shanghai. The name ‘Majiabang culture’ commonly refers to the descendants of the 5th millennium bc Hemudu lower-level culture in the region south of the Yangzi near Shanghai. The Majiabang culture comprises two phases, the earlier represented by the Majiabang site itself and the later by the middle stratum at Qingpu Songze in Shanghai. The lower stratum at Songze, belonging to the early phase, yielded a radiocarbon date of o4000 bc. The site of Beiyinyangying in Nanjing is classified by some archaeologists with the Songze phase. The successor to the Majiabang culture is the 3rd millennium bc Liangzhu culture. Majiabang is sometimes incorrectly read as Majiabin [Ma-chia-pin], an error originating with Chinese archaeologists who misread the simplified character for the place name.