In the autumn of 1964, a site of 300,000
square meters representing the Yangshao
and Longshan cultures of the Neolithic
Period was discovered at Dahe Village in
the northern suburbs of Zhengzhou. The
ruins of house foundations, dating back
five thousand years, show separate inner
and outer rooms – indicating that group
marriage probably no longer existed and
that families in which young couples
lived separately from their parents had
appeared. |