Jinggouzi culture

Jinggouzi culture

Geographical range	Inner Mongolia
Period	Bronze Age
Dates	c.500 – c.150 BCE
Preceded by	Upper Xiajiadian culture
Followed by	Yan Kingdom (Han dynasty)

The Jinggouzi culture was a culture of Inner Mongolia and Greater Chifeng area, from 1300 BCE to 1000 BCE. ^[1] It succeeded the Upper Xiajiadian culture, and preceded the establishment of the Yan territory by the Han dynasty. ^{[1] [2]}

Ancient samples of the Jinggouzi site situated to the northwest of the Liao civilization were assigned to Haplogroup C-M217. Northern nomads from Jinggouzi might have entered the West Liao River valley, but these Jinggouzi people (closely related to Xianbei and Oroqen) ^[3] were culturally and genetically distinct from the original people of the West Liao River valley, who carried the characteristic Haplogroup N-M231 lineage. The Jinggouzi people may have been associated with the Donghu. ^[3]

References

1. Honeychurch 2015, p. 112.
2. Kradin 2018, In Inner Mongolia, the Xijiadian culture and, later, the Jinggouzi culture appeared. These cultures were approximately synchronous to the archaeological periods on the Central Plain of China from the Shang dynasty till the Warring States period..
3. Wang, Haijing; Chen, Lu; Ge, Binwen; Zhang, Ye; Zhu, Hong; Zhou, Hui (2012). "Genetic data suggests that the Jinggouzi people are associated with the Donghu, an ancient nomadic group of North China". Human Biology. 84 (4): 365–378. doi:10.3378/027.084.0402. ISSN   1534-6617. PMID   23249313. S2CID   207907242.

Sources

• Honeychurch, William (2015). Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (PDF). doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1815-7.
• Sun, Yan (2017). "Identity and Artifacts on the North Central and Northeastern Frontier during the Period of State Expansion in the Late Second and the Early First Millennium BCE". Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–145. ISBN   978-1-108-41861-4.
• Kradin, Nikolay (24 May 2018). "Ancient Steppe Nomad Societies" . Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.3.