Stilt houses
Rebuilt on site.
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A museum on the site of the Neolithic Hemudu culture, which flourished south of Hangzhou Bay between about 5500 and 3300 BC; the site was found in 1973, and its people were among the world's earliest rice farmers, living in long wooden houses raised on stilts above the wet ground. The museum opened in May 1993 in a building shaped like those ancient houses, with long pitched roofs and crossing timbers, and its halls show some 320 objects: charred grains of rice, farming tools of bone, black pottery and wooden artefacts. A hundred metres away, an open-air display area of 23,000 square metres shows the rows of wooden piles on which the houses stood, along with rebuilt stilt houses and scenes of village life from seven thousand years ago. Entry is free, and the museum is open Tuesday to Sunday from 8.30 am to 5 pm from May to September and 9 am to 4.30 pm the rest of the year, closed on Mondays, per visitor guides.
Rebuilt on site.
Among the earliest grown.
And bone tools.
Hemudu town, Yuyao, about 25 km west of central Ningbo, Zhejiang
It revealed a village about seven thousand years old whose people grew rice and built skilful raised wooden houses, changing how scholars see the beginnings of farming and civilisation in southern China.