Banpo Museum
This museum lies 4km/2.5 miles east of Xi'an on a site where, in the 1950s,

archaeologists unearthed a 6000 year-old village which had operated on a matriarchal

structure. About 500 people would have lived in the village, which was surrounded by

a ditch 6m/20ft wide and equally deep. The houses, all facing south, were square or

round in plan and arranged around a large house 160sq.m/1720sq.ft in area. Corn and

other supplies were kept in the store rooms.

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