Yangshao artisans create fine white, red, and black painted pottery with human facial, animal, and geometric designs.

Unlike the later Longshan culture, the Yangshao culture does not use pottery wheels.

Excavations found that children were buried in painted pottery jars.

The distinctive feature of the Longshan culture is the high level of skill in pottery making, including the use of pottery wheels.

The Longshan culture is noted for its highly polished black pottery (or egg-shell pottery).

This type of thin-walled and polished black pottery, which marks a great technical advance, has also been discovered in the Yangzi River valley and as far as today's southeastern coast of China.

It is a clear indication that Neolithic agricultural subgroups of the greater Longshan Culture had spread out across ancient boundaries of China.