cishan

Example Sentences

• "Major archaeological finds of the last three decades include the earliest known sites along the Yellow River valley. Some of these sites are classified as belonging to the Cishan culture, after the type site in Wu’an, Hebei Province, and others to the Peiligang culture, after their type site in Xinzheng, Henan Province; both are datable between about 5500 and 5000 B.C.[…] But a few are comb-marked, and at certain Cishan sites, some cord-marked or painted ones have been found. The common vessels are bowls, round-bottomed or with three short legs; deep, wide-mouthed jars; pots with two tiny lugs; caldrons with three or four legs (ding); and, in settlements of the Cishan culture, straight-walled, flat-bottomed jars (yu) and flat-topped, hollow pot supports."
• "Domesticated millets — Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum — appear a little later than rice in the archaeological record, around 6500-5000 BCE in sites of the Peiligang, Cishan and related cultures, in the mid Huang He river valley, the Wei river valley and the upper Han river valley in northern China."
• "In Manchuria, changes in subsistence and sedentism can be traced through time and between regions. Interpretations of millet cultivation in Manchuria vary, but in general the sites are regarded as related to and derivative from the Cishan culture."
• "Taiwan Red Cross members escort rescued residents who were trapped following Typhoon Morakot, to receive medical care in Cishan, Taiwan, 12 August 2009. Taiwan soldiers on 12 August found 70 more survivors from a village buried by a mudslide, bringing to 1,000 the number of people found alive in mountain region affected by landslides in the southern county of Kaohsiung."
• "In Cishan, a storm-ravaged town of 41,000, both road bridges had collapsed, smashing houses and taking down cars. Residents jammed a footbridge which remained standing."
• "The trail runs relatively wide and flat most of the way, skirting the northern slopes of the deep, V-shaped Cishan River (旗山溪) valley."