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[[underline]] Chapter IX.  [[/underline]]  179.

formed part of a muller or mealing-stone of the type not infrequently found on northern Chinese Neolithic sites.  It was of interest because such stones seem to have been used in bruising or crushing millet, not for husking rice;[[superscript]] (172) [[/superscript]] hence its presence here set^[[s]] up a certain presumption
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[[superscript]] (172) [[/superscript]] Although millet seems to have been the principal cereal grown in Neolithic northern China, nevertheless rice was already known then in the valley of the Yellow River; [[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] Dr. J. G. Andersson, [[underline]] Children of the Yellow Earth, [[/underline]] pages 186 and 335 [[underline]] sq. [[/underline]]
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in regard to the food-habits of the people who made it.
  In the same trench but at a depth of 18 feet we came on some scattered bones and teeth, apparently human though so badly disintegrated that identification was difficult.  Mingled with them were bits of charcoal, and the surfaces of the bones were carbonized, as though they had been exposed to the same fire that had calcined and reddened some of the earth about them.  There were no indications of an interment.  We also found the fragment of a mandible, with teeth, of a small deer.
  Just beneath the surface in our northwestern trench again was^[[|]]a slender, rounded, and slightly recurving bronze object between 6 and 7 inches long and reptilian in form; our Chinese helpers at once called it a "dragon".  Its style was that of the Han period or perhaps slightly earlier.  On its reverse were two flattened loops or staples for attachment, as if to leather straps--perhaps an ornament for a head-stall.  In the same trench, about 2 feet underground, we came on several lumps of a heavy grayish-green substance that looked like copper ore.
  In our other trench, that to the northeast, apparently near the jade celt already mentioned, one of our workmen found a few small irregularly shaped sheets of mica, from 2 to 3 inches across.  Here and there in the same trench also were a number of pieces of much rusted