Neolithic Communities in Eastern Parts of Central Asia

Neolithic Chinese communities developed close contacts with adjoining regions, with cultural exchange taking place between the nomadic tribes of the north and west, and the sedentary cultures to the south-east.  Both farming communities and nomadic tribes left an archaeological record of tools and craft objects, as well as burial chambers, all of which stand as testimonies to the distinctive yet closely related cultures that developed in eastern Central Asia in the Neolithic Era.