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Xicha culture

Geographical range	Ordos Plateau
Period	Bronze Age
Dates	c.1300 – c.1000 BC
Preceded by	Zhukaigou culture
Followed by	Ordos culture

The Xicha culture, also Xicha-Lijiaya culture was a culture of Inner Mongolia and Greater Ordos area, from 1300 BCE to 1000 BCE. It succeeded the Zhukaigou culture, and preceded the Bronze Age Ordos culture.

Archaeological finds corresponding to this culture are rather abundant, with tombs, ceramics, settlements, and bronze atifacts. The Xicha culture already used mold for casting bronze objects and weapons.

References

1. ^ Honeychurch 2015, p. 112.
2. Sun 2017, p. 121, In its northernmost area, modern southern Inner Mongolia, remains, though limited, have recently been defined as the Xicha culture. Evidence on both sides of the Yellow River in northern Shaanxi and Shanxi is relatively rich, including tombs, settlements, ceramics and bronze artifacts (vessels, weapons and tools deriving from the Shang and frontier traditions). These remains are generally placed under the umbrella of the Lijiaya culture. In the Lingfen Basin, local cultures borrowed heavily from Anyang-style bronze vessels and Shang mortuary practices..
3. Sun 2017, p. 121.

Sources

• Honeychurch, William (2015). Inner Asia and the Spatial Politics of Empire: Archaeology, Mobility, and Culture Contact (PDF). doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-1815-7.
• Sun, Yan (2017). "Identity and Artifacts on the North Central and Northeastern Frontier during the Period of State Expansion in the Late Second and the Early First Millennium BCE". Ancient China and its Eurasian Neighbors: Artifacts, Identity and Death in the Frontier, 3000–700 BCE. Cambridge University Press. pp. 72–145. ISBN 978-1-108-41861-4.

• Archaeological cultures in Mongolia
• Archaeological cultures of China
• History of Inner Mongolia
• Bronze Age Asia