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[[underline]] Chapter X. [[/underline]] 205. on the legends and traditions about them still to be heard among the local population, of peasants and fishermen. In the course of our investigations, Dr. Houghton, [[superscript]] (184) [[/superscript]] who was spend- ------------------------- [[superscript]] (184) [[/superscript]] Regarding Dr. Houghton, see page 4. I take much pleasure in here extending to him my lasting sense of deep obligation for his many kindnesses while he and I both remained in China. --------------------------------- ing the summer at his cottage on the cliffs at Lighthouse Point, told me that some time previously his children had picked up a few stone arrowheads near one of the beaches, where they had apparently been washed down from higher slopes above. [[superscript]] (184-a) [[/superscript]] Again, on Fishhook Point (see map, Fig. 47) ------------------------- [[superscript]] (184-a) [[/superscript]] Dr. J. C. Ferguson (oral communication of 12 July, 1925) told me that stone arrowheads were not necessarily an indication of great age---that during the 'nineties' of the last century he himself saw used in target practice arrows with stone heads, made at that time. --------------------------------- Mr. Tegengren found a well made semilunar stone knife with a circular perforation; the type is a well known one, characteristic of the northern Chinese Neolithic culture and having in addition a well nigh circumpolar distribution. These finds, scantly though they were, suggested that the region had been occupied, or at least visited, during the (local) Neolithic period. This however did not necessarily imply any very remote antiquity; for the use of stone implements undoubtedly persisted in this and other areas marginal to the ancient China Proper, as well as among the Chinese peasantry themselves, long after the Bronze Age had come into being among the ruling class of the middle Yellow River valley. Turning now to the earthworks; these, as I studied them both on the ground and from the air, presented features which suggested to me that they belonged to more than one period. The use of [[underline]] terre pisée [[/underline]] was of course to be expected; for that material had been employed in China for the construction of defensive works from very early times down to the present day.
