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[[underline]] Chapter XII. [[/underline]] 247.

cations pointed to a time earlier than the Ming Dynasty (1368-1643).  The presence of the figure here at least afforded additional confirmation of the former importance of the locality, where we now saw only the temporary mat-shelters of local fishing population.
Our somewhat careful search of the Peitaiho area, carried out under conditions decidedly more favorable than those of the preceding summer, while disappointing in itself, at least satisfied us that the region contained no remains of the sort that we were especially seeking on this occasion^[[.]] [[strikethrough]] (for those see pp. 243 [[underline]] sq. [[/underline]] ). [[/strikethrough]] My two companions and I therefore returned to Peking, on April 30th.

[[underline]] Our Crania from the Ta T'ung Region. [[/underline]]
Soon afterward we moved into our new quarters.  I thereupon asked Dr. Paul H. Stevenson, of the Anatomical Department of the Peking/ [[insertion]] Union [[/insertion]] Medical College, to pass on the little collection of skeletal material that we had been able to gather in the course of our recent exploration of the Ta T;ung area^[[.]]  [[strikethrough]] (see previous chapter). [[/strikethrough]] Dr. Stevenson, who had made a special study of the physical types found among the northern Chinese, kindly consented, and proceeded to make a careful examination, particularly of the crania.  These, he informed me after his inspection, were of the usual North Sinian type, and were generally similar both to the skulls of the present-day inhabitants of the region and to the Neolithic crania found in various parts of it by Dr. J. G. Andersson in the period 1921-1924. [[superscript]] (227) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (227) [[/superscript]] On the prehistoric northern Chinese crania found by Dr. Andersson, see the [[underline]] Palaeontologia Sinica [[/underline]] , Ser. D, Vol. VI, Fasc. 1; Dr. Davidson Black, "A Study of Kansu and Honan Aeneolithic Skulls and Specim^[[e]]ns from Later Kansu Prehistoric Sites in Comparison with North China and Other Recent Crania."  See especially page 8.
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One specimen in our possession, Dr. Stevenson believed, was probably of the West Shansi sub-variety of the class