Editing Xi'an (section)

===Prehistory===
The [[Lantian Man]] was discovered in 1963 in [[Lantian County]], {{convert|50|km|abbr=on}} southeast of Xi'an, and dates back to at least 500,000 years before the present time. A 6,500-year-old [[Neolithic]] village, [[Banpo]], was discovered in 1953 on the eastern outskirts of the city proper, which contains the remains of several well organized [[Neolithic]] settlements [[radiocarbon dating|carbon dated]] to 5,600–6,700 [[Before Present|years ago]].<ref>{{Cite book |doi=10.1007/978-90-481-8716-4_8 |chapter=Climate Change and Desertification with Special Reference to the Cases in China |title=Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society |year=2010 |last1=Yang |first1=Xiaoping |isbn=978-90-481-8715-7 |pages=177–187}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4_bT2SJ-HUC |chapter=East Asian plant domestication |pages=77–95 |title=Archaeology of Asia |isbn=9781405153034 |last1=Stark |first1=Miriam T |date=2008-04-15 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |access-date=November 15, 2015 |archive-date=August 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813013959/https://books.google.com/books?id=z4_bT2SJ-HUC |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrndfu/articles/china%20overview%20pre.pdf |title=A Critical Assessment of Early Agriculture in East Asia, with emphasis on Lower Yangzte Rice Domestication |last1=Fuller |first1=Dorian Q |last2=Qin |first2=Ling |last3=Harvey |first3=Emma |journal=Pragdhara |year=2008 |pages=17–52 |access-date=May 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924031215/http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrndfu/articles/china%20overview%20pre.pdf |archive-date=September 24, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |pmid=21592462 |year=2011 |last1=Meng |first1=Y |last2=Zhang |first2=HQ |last3=Pan |first3=F |last4=He |first4=ZD |last5=Shao |first5=JL |last6=Ding |first6=Y |title=Prevalence of dental caries and tooth wear in a Neolithic population (6700-5600 years BP) from northern China |volume=56 |issue=11 |pages=1424–35 |doi=10.1016/j.archoralbio.2011.04.003 |journal=Archives of Oral Biology}}</ref> The site is now home to the [[Xi'an Banpo Museum]], built in 1957 to preserve the archaeological collection.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.chinamuseums.com/ban_po.htm |title=Banpo Museum in Xi'an |publisher=chinamuseums.com |access-date=2013-07-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180131145303/http://www.chinamuseums.com/ban_po.htm |archive-date=January 31, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>