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[underline]] Chapter XIII. [[/underline]] 276. In a very few instances the hilts bore, incised in the metal, brief inscriptions; the longest that we saw consisted of four characters, all but one or two of them illegible from wear and corrosion. These, however, we suspected of being forgeries; for the weapons that bore them were atypical in other respects also. [[superscript]] (247) [[/superscript]] ------------------------ [[superscript]] (247) [[/superscript]] The later Dr. K. Hamada, the eminent Japanese archaeologist, subsequently confirmed my suspicions in this regard. --------------------------------- The above type of knife, while especially characteristic of the steppe zone of Eurasia---the particular home of the nomads---has also a very much wider distribution, almost from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It has been found in northern China on the one hand, in Spain on the other; and it has occurred also in Siberia, Central Europe, Sicily, and (perhaps) in the British Isles. As a very great archaeological authority has said, "It seems as if there had been some relationship between the west European and the Eastern Asiatic group". [[superscript]] (248) [[/superscript]] This remark, made over a score of years ------------------------- [[superscript]] (248) [[/superscript]] W. M. Flinders Petrie. [[underline]] Tools and Weapons [[/underline]] , Lond., 1917; ref. on page 24. --------------------------------- ago, applies with equal force, we now know, to many other bronze objects as well. [[superscript]] (249) [[/superscript]] During the long period that the successive phases of the ------------------------ [[superscript]] (249) [[/superscript]] See on this point, for example, the [[underline]] Stockholm Mus. Bull. [[/underline]] , no.2, 1930: Olov Janse, "Quelques antiquités chinoises d'un charactère Hallstattien", pp. 177-183. -------------------------------- Bronze Age endured, a vast amount of cultural diffusion was evidently going on, from end to end of the north temperate zone of the Old World. [[underline]] Bronze Arrowpoints. [[/underline]] Of the bronze arrowpoints that we found in the shops at Kuei-hua Ch'êng, nearly all were of the three-edged or trihedral type. [[superscript]] (250) [[/superscript]] They
