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[[underline]] Chapter IX. [[/underline]]  178.
Most, though not all, were of that three-edged or trihedral form (an equilateral triangle in cross-section) which occurs in a variety of materials, ranging from bone and stone to iron, from west-central Europe on the one hand to eastern Asia on the other. [[superscript]] (171) [[/superscript]]  They had slender tapering
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[[superscript]] (171) [[/superscript]] Dr. J. G. Andersson, in his [[underline]] Children of the Yellow Earth [[/underline]] (page 215), makes the interesting suggestion that the stone arrowheads of this type found by him at Yang Shao, in northern Honan, and belonging to the Chinese Neolithic period, may perhaps have been inspired ultimately by forms in copper developed earlier in the Near East, Certainly the examples that we encountered at the Lei Ku T'ai looked far more like derivatives from metal prototypes than shapes natural to stone.
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tangs (most of them with their ends broken off), obviously designed for insertion in hollow shafts of bamboo or cane.  In one or two instances, that portion of the arrowhead between the three-edged point and the constriction forming the tang was cylindrical. [[strikethrough]] (fig. 29, no. 1). [[/strikethrough]]
  We also found 2 stone arrowheads of a different type---flat, leaf shaped, and two-edged, though likewise provided with tangs of the kind just mentioned.  In all cases the absence of barbs suggested that the stone arrowheads which we found in the Lei Ku T'ai were designed for use in hunting, not in war.
  In addition to the above we unearthed 2 arrowheads of bronze.  Both lay near the surface of the mound, though not in association.  One had 3 edges, the stump of a slender tang, and no barbs.  The other was flat, wide, two-edged, and heavily barbed, with a stout midrib; one of the barbs had been broken off (fig. [[strikethrough]] 31 [[/strikethrough]] ^[[45]]).

[[underline]]] Miscellaneous Finds in the Trenches. [[/underline]]
  Belonging probably to the same culture as the stone "points" (dibbles?), celts, and slate arrow-points just mentioned, we unearthed in our northwestern trench at a depth of 1 1/2 feet a small fragment of a stone slab.  Worn smooth and flat on one side, this had evidently