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[[underline]] Chapter IX. [[/underline]]  174.

levels again was a class of gray-brown shards marked with "textile" (bark-cloth?) impressions on the outside; these also had in some instances pinched up [[underline]] appliqué [[/underline]] decoration somewhat like that mentioned in the preceding paragraph.
  We found further---in this case at all depths---shards of a thin, hard, smooth undecorated black ware (sometimes, through imperfect firing, with a red core), showing little or no tempering.  Pottery of this color and otherwise generally similar in type seems to have been pretty widely made in northern China, more especially in its eastern portions, during late prehistoric and perhaps early historic times. [[superscript]] (167) [[/superscript]] Possibly related
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[[superscript]] (167) [[/superscript]] This class of prehistoric Chinese pottery seems first to have been brought to the attention of the scientific world by Dr. J. G. Andersson, in connection with his accounts of his remarkable discoveries at Sha Kuo T'un, in southern Manchuria, and at Yang Shao, in northern Honan.
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to it is the glossy black---in some cases, actually lustrous---ware later found by members of the Academia Sinica in Shantung and northern Honan, and which belongs stratigraphically [[underline]] above [[/underline]] the purely Neolithic Yang Shao ("Painted Pottery") culture-layer but [[underline]] beneath [[/underline]] that of the Bronze Age Shang Dynasty.
  At a depth of 2 1/2 feet below the surface in our northeastern trench we came upon 2 fragments (which could be fitted together) of a vessel with thick everted lip; these, of a brick-red ware, bore on the outside a textile impression.  In the same trench but at a depth of 17 feet we found pieces of a shallow unglazed iron-red earthenware platter, poorly fired and containing a large proportion of coarse sand tempering.
  None of the shards scattered through the earth of the Lei Ku T'ai carried any accessory parts, such as handles, lugs, or loops.  Nor did we come on any traces of painted decoration; al-