Ancient Hongshan Culture: Creators Of A Pyramid And Remarkable Artifacts That Are Still Shrouded In Mystery

A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - The mysterious ancient Hongshan culture vanished thousands of years ago, but they left behind a number of absolutely astonishing jade figurines that we have the privilege to admire today.

In the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, there is also a very pyramid shrouded in an aura of mystery. For a long time, scientists thought that the Chinese civilization began in the Yellow River Valley region, but that is not true.

Today, historians know that earlier cultures existed in other regions of China.

One of the earliest known of these was the Neolithic Era's Hongshan culture, whose members inhabited the lands between Inner Mongolia and today's Liaoning and Hebei Provinces beginning around 6,500 years ago-a full 2,400 years before the rise of the Xia Dynasty

The Xia Dynasty was described in ancient historical chronicles as the first Chinese dynasty. Hongshan means "Red Mountain," after a site in Inner Mongolia.

Hongshan sites have been found in an area stretching from Inner Mongolia to Liaoning, and dated from about 4700 to 2900 BC.

There is no doubt that the Hongshan culture of ancient China played a vital role in the history of the country...

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