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[[underlined]] Chapter VIII. [[/underlined]] 144-a. --------------------- (145) On the early history pf coffins in China, [[underlined]] cf. [[/underlined]] pp. 31 [[underlined]] sq. [[/underlined]] --------------------- The stone ax of course suggested the Neolithic Period as that of the interment. We must remember however that the region thereabout was marginal to the ancient Chinese culture-area proper. Until well on in the 1st millennium B.C. it was inhabited by the Ti [[Chinese character]] (also written [[Chinese character]] ) bar-