High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Banpo (Chinese: 半坡; pinyin: B npō) is an archaeological remain discovered in 1953 and located in the Yellow River Valley just east of Xi'an, China. It contains the remains of several well organized Neolithic settlements dating from 5600 - 6700 BP according to radiocarbon dating. It is a large area of 5-6 hectares and surrounded by a ditch, probably a defensive moat, five or six metres...