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[[underline]] Chapter IX. [[/underline]] 175.

though some of the thin, fine, and rather hard buff-hued fragments looked as though they might be in the "Painted Pottery" tradition in regard to the color and texture of the ware, as apart from its ornamentation.
  We likewise turned up numerous discoidal spinning-whorls of burnt clay, averaging around 3 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] in diameter and each with a slender central perforation.  Precisely similar ones occur at most Chinese Neolithic sites; in themselves, of course, they afford no evidence of weaving, but merely of the spinning of thread or the twining of string.

[[underline]] Stone Points and Celts. [[/underline]] [[superscript]] (168) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (168) [[/superscript]] I use the word "celts" (rather than "axes") advisedly, in spite of the comparative disfavor into which it seems to have fallen of late, because the artifacts of this type which we found in the Lei Ku T'ai appeared to have beeen shaped and used not only as axes but also as adzes and perhaps in some cases as chisels.
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  Scattered at different levels in the mound, between 3 and 14 feet down, we came on numerous examples of a class of bluntly pointed stone artifacts, roughly cylindrical in form; about an inch in diameter and ranging from 5 to 9 inches in length, these had as a rule one end more tapered than the other.  Usually whole, in some instances they had been broken in two.  Superficially they recalled vaguely the "Campignian picks" of early Neolithic Europe, save that they had been finished off by rubbing and grinding (though traces of the original chipping were usually visible).
  These "points" puzzled us at first; but on the whole it seems most likely that they had formed the working-parts of implements, in all probability digging-sticks or perhaps dibbles, used in tilling the soil or in planting seeds.  Their slenderness and consequent liability to break off made it almost certain that in using them, for whatever purpose, the necessary force must have been applied longitudinally, not transversely as would have been the case had they been hafted as picks.  At all events