The Yangshao culture was a Neolithic culture in China, notable for its reliance on agriculture, including the cultivation of foxtail millet and rice. It was not the earliest Neolithic culture in China, nor was it pre-Neolithic or directly preceding the Shang civilization.

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The Yang-Shao Is

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The Yang-shao is:

A) a pre-Neolithic culture in China, analogous to the Natufian of the Middle East
B) the earliest Neolithic culture in China, with subsistence based on cultivated rice and domesticated pig
C) a very successful Neolithic culture with a reliance on foxtail millet and rice
D) a late Neolithic culture that immediately proceeded the Shang civilization

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