In which social and historical period did the earliest agriculture in China appear?

According to the archaeological achievements of China, the earliest agriculture in China appeared in the Neolithic Age 10,000 years ago.

1986 Nanzhuangtou Site Discovered in xushui county, Hebei Province. Within the excavation area of more than 60 square meters, a small gray ditch and plant ash layer were discovered, and animal bones, poultry bones, antlers, mussels, snail shells, charcoal, stone materials, stone tools, bone horns, wooden boards, wooden sticks, sand red pottery pieces and other relics related to residents' lives were unearthed. In particular, the stone mill and stone roller as food processing tools were unearthed in the site, indicating that crop planting had already appeared at that time. According to carbon 14, its age is10510u65297x10—9690u65305x5 years ago (uncorrected). It is earlier than magnetic mountain culture, even thousands of years earlier than Wannian Fairy Cave in Jiangxi and Zhupiyan Site in Guilin, Guangxi. It is one of the earliest Neolithic sites discovered in China, so it pushed the origin of agriculture in China to 10,000 years ago.

Neolithic Age: refers to the last stage of the Stone Age in archaeology, which is a stage of human material and cultural development marked by the use of grinded stone tools. This era has entered the Holocene in geological age and developed after the Paleolithic Age or the transition of the Mesolithic Age, belonging to the late Stone Age.

This era began about 6.5438+0.4 million years ago and ended about 4,000 years ago.

It is generally believed that the Neolithic Age has three basic characteristics:

1, began to manufacture and use grinded stone tools.

Neolithic painted pottery jars

2. Invented pottery

3. Primitive agriculture, animal husbandry and handicrafts appeared.