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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 384.

ety of shapes.  The great majority were of the coarse rough gray-brown ware, rather poorly fired as a rule and with surfaces neither burnished nor painted, that we had encountered everywhere during our investigations in northern China.  Other shards however, much fewer in number but harder and finer in texture and more advanced in technique, belonged to the class of reddish-buff pottery which for convenience we called "painted ware"; since many, though by no means all, of its examples bore fragments of designs painted on them in various simple colors, sometimes on slips.
      Both these types of pottery appeared in profusion at the Wa Cha Hsieh site, in a wide variety of forms.  As indicated by their surviving shards, [[superscript]] (341) [[/superscript]]  vessels were of ovoid, spherical, cylindrical, carinate, and 
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[[superscript]] (341) [[/superscript]]   Almost no complete vessels occurred, for the Wa Cha Hsieh was a habitation-site, not a cemetery; and it is in connection with burials that unbroken pottery most often appears, in ancient deposits.
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barrel-like shapes; while their bottoms were flat, slightly concave, convex, and even pointed.  There also occurred [[strikethrough]] a "fruitstand" type, [[/strikethrough]] a "fruit-stand" type, raised on a high, often hollow pedestal, and which closely resembled a form found elsewhere, notably in prehistoric Japanese deposits.  There were likewise bowls, beakers, saucers, cups with "loop" or with vertical and unperforated flange handles; and many others.

[[underline]] The Coarse Gray-brown Ware.[[/underline]]
     The coarse and unburnished gray-brown ware (pl. 50, fig. 2-pl. 54, fig. 2 inclus.) seems to have been the one indigenous to the Neolithic of northern China and, with slight local differences, of eastern and especially northeastern Asia in general.  It had, we may note here, a far wider distribution than the reddish-buff pottery; although both kinds must to a certain extent have been contemporaneous.  Here at the Wa Cha Hsieh site, at least, fragments of both varieties occurred together, mingled together indiscriminately in deposits of the same age. [[superscript]] (342) [[/superscript]]