Qinling Mountains

Proper noun

Qinling Mountains

1. Synonym of Qin Mountains.
   • By far the most definite evidence of the southern cultural affiliations of the Yang-shao people is the cultural sequence recently established by mainland Chinese archaeologists that the earliest phase of the Yang-shao culture is to be exemplified by the artifactual complex of the Li-chia-ts’un site...[1975, Ping-ti Ho, “Chronology and Paleoenvironment”, in The Cradle of the East: An Inquiry into the Indigenous Origins of Techniques and Ideas of Neolithic and Early Historic China, 5000-1000 B.C....
   • The inscriptions are on the walls of Dayu Cave in the Qinling Mountains of central China. They describe the impacts of seven droughts between 1520 and 1920.2015 August 17, Sindya N. Bhanoo, “A Chinese Drought Weather Report Written on Cave Walls”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Aug 2015, Science

   Synonyms:

   Qin Mountains