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Cup

Cup

Chinese

Cup with lightly flared side walls and flat base; thinly potted light reddish buff earthenware, the surface turned light gray after firing. Dawenkou culture. From the middle and lower Yellow River valley regions; Shandong, northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and eastern Henan provinces.

Earthenware

Neolithic period, Dawenkou culture, c. 4300-2600 BCE

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