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[[underlined]] Chapter III. [[/underlined]]
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rated, at a [[underlined]] foyer [[/underlined]] perhaps of Chalcolithic date (see page 412). We may note in this connection that the iron sickles used today in parts of Indo-China and Indonesia (although not, so far as I am aware, in China itself) have saw-toothed edges --- a survival, apparently, of a far earlier practice, originating before the Age of Metals.

[[underlined]] Features of Chou Dynasty Interments. [[/underlined]]
Here we may notice briefly certain points of resemblance between the type of interment in use among the ruling class of northern China during much of the Chou period and that represented by the [[underlined]] kurgan [[/underlined]] or "red pigment" burials of southeastern Russia and western Siberia (29). Both

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Regarding the latter see, [[underlined]] e.g. [[/underlined]], [[underlined]] Bulls. et Méms. de la Société d'Anthropol. de Paris [[/underlined]], ser. 4, vol. 6 (1905). pp. 116-138 and 297-323: M. Zaborowski, Du Dniestre à la Caspienne. See also the [[underlined]] Journal des Savants [[/underlined]], N.S., vol. 18 (1920), pp. 49-61 and 109-122: M. Rostovtzeff, L'Exploration Archéologique de la Russie Méridionale de 1912 à 1917.
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are as a rule marked by earthen mounds. Both have subterranean tomb-chambers roofed and even lined with wood and often divided by partitions into two compartments. In both there is usually a rich grave-furniture. Most characteristic of all, there is in both a lavish use of red pigment which stains the bones of the dead and appears on the objects buried with them.
In southeastern Russia this form of burial was already in use in Neolithic times, perhaps as far back as the 3rd millennium B.C. or earlier, and persisted right down to the Scythian period. During this long interval it spread both west and east. On the one hand it occurs, sporadically, as far away as Rumania, while on the other it has been found in western Siberia. Our archaeological data for both Russian