The Yangshao culture emerged along the Yellow River and their artifacts included their pots of red clay (also decorated with spiral patterns) and some of the burials found that showed that some of them may have believed in the connection of heaven and Earth. Another society at Longshan in Shandong province at the lower reaches of the Yellow River made even finier pots of fine black clay. These societies thrived based on the similar irrigation techniques like those of the Indus Valley Civilization and the Egyptians. In 1959, a series of very old temples and artifacts of the Erilitou culture revealed even more varieties of ancient Chinese cultures. The 3 top cultures were Paleolithic, Neolithic, and Chalcolithic
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