Qualla: Xinglonggou https://qualla.com/xinglonggou en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:39 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Xinglonggou https://qualla.com/xinglonggou Xinglonggou: Introduction https://qualla.com/xinglonggou/ On a loess slope above the left bank of the Mangniu River, north of the Qilaotu Mountains in Aohan Banner, Inner Mongolia, three separate worlds lie stacked in the earth. Discovered in 1982, the Xinglonggou archaeological complex contains three sites spanning from the early Neolithic through the Bronze Age, each associated with a different culture. Together they tell a story of how one small patch of ground witnessed the transformation of human life in northeast China: from hunters who experimented with planting millet to farmers whose fields fed entire villages and their livestock.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/t/c/xinglonggou-wp/wxtc-xinglonggou-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Xinglonggou: The Earliest Dated Millet on Earth https://qualla.com/xinglonggou/ Xinglonggou 1, the oldest site, dates to around 6000 BC and belongs to the Xinglongwa culture. Excavated from 2001 to 2003, it revealed 145 rectangular semi-subterranean houses organized in three clusters of roughly 50 each, arranged in rows. Systematic flotation of soil samples ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/t/c/xinglonggou-wp/wxtc-xinglonggou-the-earliest-dated-millet-on-earth.mp3 0:06 2 full Xinglonggou: Jade from Distant Sources https://qualla.com/xinglonggou/ The artifact assemblage at Xinglonggou 1 includes some of the earliest jade objects found in China. The jade consists primarily of slit rings, along with tubes, chisels, and ornaments. Notably, the people favored yellow-green nephrite that was not locally available, implying trad...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/t/c/xinglonggou-wp/wxtc-xinglonggou-jade-from-distant-sources.mp3 0:06 3 full Xinglonggou: The Ancestor God and the Changing Diet https://qualla.com/xinglonggou/ Xinglonggou 2, dating to about 3300 BC, belongs to the late Hongshan culture. Four houses and 31 storage pits were found, enclosed by a ditch. During the 2012 excavation, workers unearthed a terracotta statue that was dubbed the Ancestor God of China. Paradoxically, the Hongshan-...

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