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[[underlined]] Chapter II. [[/underlined]]   29.

terment had been included a large number of pottery vessels. Their fragmentary remains were light gray in color and fairly fine in texture, with their surfaces unglazed and either plain or else marked with coarse textile (matting?) impressions.
   This pottery had the appearance of having been wheel-made; but its otherwise rather archaic look suggested the thought to me at the time that it had perhaps been made especially for funerary use. Many---perhaps all---of these vessels must have been entire when found; for the fractures that I saw were without exception fresh. I noticed only one complete specimen, about 15 [[underlined]] cm. [[/underlined]] in height---a small bowl on a tall foot. This was lying on the dump where it had been tossed; but  before I could reach it, a by[[strikethrough]] e [[/strikethrough]]stander wantonly smashed it.
   Other potsherds, which we either found in the loose earth of the dump or dug out at various depths [[underlined]] beneath [[/underlined]] the surface stratum of soil ([[underlined]] cf. [[/underlined]] page 28), fell into two classes. Of these, one---by far the larger---consisted of a dark brownish-gray ware, made by the "coiling" process. Often poorly fired, it was rather coarse, porous, and unglazed. Its surface too, like that of the pottery mentioned in the two preceding paragraphs, was either plain or else marked with textile or mat impressions. The type was closely similar to, if not indeed actually identical with, that of the ware which we later found on various Chinese Neolithic sites. Its manufacture, perhaps by then confined to the peasantry, seems to have persisted far down into the historical period ([[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] page 64).
   The second class, represented by an exceedingly small number of fragments, was thinner, denser, and better levigated. Of a light ruddy buff color, it showed no traces of either paint or slip; in a 
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