[1] The Liangzhu culture was extremely influential and its sphere of influence reached as far north as Shanxi and as far south as Guangdong.

[3][4] The type site at Liangzhu was discovered in Yuhang County, Zhejiang and initially excavated by Shi Xingeng in 1936.

[6] Recent research has shown that rising waters interrupted the development of human settlements several times in this area.

[7] An alternative scenario proposes that extremely heavy monsoon rains during this period resulted in massive flooding which destroyed dams and the culture's settlements.

The researchers stated that "massive rainfall in the entire middle-lower reaches of the Yangtze River Valley might have induced fluvial flooding and/or overbank marine flooding transported by the Yangtze River plume and thus impeded human habitation and rice farming.

"[9][10] This may have all occurred during, or in the century leading up to the global drought that is credited with bringing down most of the first generation of human civilizations, including those in the Indus valley, Old Kingdom Egypt, and the Akkadian Empire in Sumeria.

A new discovery of ancient city wall base relics was announced by the Zhejiang provincial government on November 29, 2007.

At its center was a palace site that spanned 30 hectares and there was also evidence of an artificial flood protection design implemented within the city.

Also discovered inside and outside the city are a large number of utensils for production, living, military and ritual purposes represented by numerous delicate Liangzhu jade wares of cultural profoundness; the remains including city walls, foundations of large structures, tombs, altars, residences, docks and workshops.

The Liangzhu city-site is said to have been settled and developed with a specific purpose in mind since this area has very few remains that can be traced back to earlier periods.

[14] The inhabitants of Liangzhu sites used artifact designs of "bent knee" shaped adze handles, stone untangled adzes, art styles emphasizing the use of spirals and circles, cord-marking of pottery, pottery pedestals with cut-out decorations, baked clay spindle whorls, slate reaping knives and spear points.

Similarities between Liangchengzhen, the largest Dawenkou site, pottery making process and that of the Liangzhu were noted, which led researchers to believe there was communication between the two cultures.

"[20][21] Liangzhu jade work is also said to have had a lasting influence on ritual objects in later periods of Chinese culture.

[22] A neolithic altar from the Liangzhu culture, excavated at Yaoshan in Zhejiang was elaborate, made of carefully positioned piles of stones and rock walls: this implies that religion was of considerable importance.

[25] According to Sun Jin in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, the prevalence of O-M119 reaches 24% in Jiangsu and 20% in Shanghai, and O-M119 is one of the founding paternal lineages of the Han people.

According to 23Mofang, Chinese geneticists have identified O-M119, in particular, the Liangzhu culture subclade Y-O1a1a1a1a1a1a (Y-F656) as the haplotype of King Gou Jian of Yue and the famous scholar Sima Guang.

The authors of the study suggest that this may be evidence of two different human migration routes during the peopling of Eastern Asia, one coastal and the other inland, with little genetic flow between them.