Daxi culture

Daxi culture

Geographical range	middle Yangtze
Period	Neolithic
Dates	c. 5000 – c. 3300 BC
Followed by	Qujialing culture
Chinese name
Chinese	大溪文化
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dàxī wénhuà

The Daxi culture (5000–3300 BC) was a Neolithic culture centered in the Three Gorges region around the middle Yangtze, China. The culture ranged from western Hubei to eastern Sichuan and the Pearl River Delta. The site at Daxi, located in the Qutang Gorge around Wushan, Chongqing, was discovered by Nels C. Nelson in the 1920s.