Standing on the eastern bank of the Chanhe River, the site covers an area of about 50,000 square meters in an irregular round shape. Over 40 house ruins, 200 storage pots, a collection of pottery and tools, a pottery-making center and a graveyard with more than 250 graves have been excavated. From the implements and utensils discovered, archaeologists have learned a great deal about the daily life of Banpo. It was a typical Yangshao Culture Community - the prosperous period of the matrilineal clan society.

The tools used by the residents at Banpo were mainly crude stone implements including axes, hoes, spades, chisels, bowls and spinning wheels, some of which were bored with holes. The most elegant of the many bone implements were bone needles and fish hooks, which seem identical with today's metal equivalents.

Villagers fired and painted extraordinarily beautiful clay pots with elegant, colorful designs, for which mineral pigments were usually employed. The earlier decorations on these vessels portrayed fish with mouths open, fishing-nets and deer on the run - subjects reflecting the main preoccupations of Banpo's inhabitants which were later replaced by geometric patterns.

Houses built by the Banpo residents 60 centuries ago include those built partly below ground and wooden structures above ground -- some round, some square -- with doors facing south. A cooking pit in the center was built with clay and wood.

In the communal burial ground found to the north of the site, men and women were buried separately, usually by themselves, Women were generally interred with a greater number of funeral objects than men. Chinese archaeologists believe that the people of Banpo lived in a primitive communist matriarchal clan Community.

The Banpo Museum was built on the Site. 10,000 pieces of articles are displayed here. There is potteries decorated with painted geometrical designs and production tools, including axe, chisel, sickle, stone and pottery knives.