Daxi culture

Daxi culture
Geographical rangemiddle Yangtze
PeriodNeolithic
Datesc. 5000 – c. 3300 BC
Followed byQujialing culture
Chinese name
Chinese大溪文化
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDàxī 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.