The Yangshao culture is a Neolithic culture that exists extensively along the central Yellow River in China.

The Yangshao culture is dated from around 5000 BCE to 3000 BCE.

The culture is named after Yangshao, the first excavated representative village of this culture, which was discovered in 1921 in Henan Province by the Swedish archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960).

The culture flourishes mainly in the provinces of Henan, Shaanxi and Shanxi.