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[[underlined]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underlined]] 376.

were sufficient to show that the site was really of that period; and its traditional association with the emperor Han Wu Ti (see above) may therefore have some justification in fact, after all. [[superscript]] (336) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (336) [[/superscript]] This very minor excavation had been published (by Messrs. Kelly & Walsh, Shanghai, 1931), and there is therefore no need to repeat here in detail what has already been said in regard to it. 
  By way of introduction to this brief report, I wrote a paper, entitled "Prefatory Note on the Worship of Earth in Ancient China", embodying what I had been able to gather regarding this interesting subject from the ancient records.
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  In spite of its slight intrinsic importance, however, the operation turned out to be well worth while; for it established with the Shansi provincial authorities a precedent which enabled us to do further work in the region immediately roundabout---work destined, as the sequel will show, to be of real importance in shedding new light on the Chinese Late Neolithic Period.

[[underline]] Neolithic Village-Site at Wa Cha Hsieh. [[/underline]]
During his work at the Fen Yin Hou T'u Tz'u, Mr. Tung encountered, in its soil and in that of the neighboring fields, such an abundance of potsherds, particularly of the "painted" variety, that he became convinced that a prehistoric village-site of some magnitude must exist in the vicinity.
  Accordingly he interrogated the peasantry of the region, and thus succeeded in finding, in a field at the north^[[ea]]stern [[strikethrough]] slope [[/strikethrough]] ^[[base]] of the Ku Shan^[[,]] [[strikethrough]] see page 375), [[/strikethrough]] a spot known locally as the Wa Cha Hsieh [[3 Chinese characters]], or "Potsherd Slope", from the vast quantities of broken pottery occurring there. The area lay about a mile east of the little earth-walled district town of Wan Ch'üan [[2 Chinese characters]] Hsien, "City of a Myriad Springs", from which it was separated by a great ravine in the loess.
  Feeling sure that here was the site for which he had been looking,  

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