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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] [[strikethrough]] 390^[[-a]] [[/strikethrough]] 391. The particular specimen just cited is of diabase, while others are of chert, argillite, or a certain close-grained limestone. [[superscript]] (345) [[/superscript]] For natur- ----------------- [[superscript]] (345) [[/superscript]] For these identifications of the kinds of stone chosen by the Late Stone Age Chinese for their cutting-utsneils, I am much indebted to Dr. W. F. Foshag, of the Division of Mineralogy at the U. S. National Museum, in Washington. Dr Foshag has also kindly called to my attention the interesting fact that identical varieties of stone were employed for like purposes both by the prehistoric Chinese and by the recent (pre-Columbian) American I^[[n]]dians. -------------------------- ally the prehistoric Chinese selected as the material for their cutting-tools hard and tough varieties of stone which would take and retain a fairly effective edge---often the only part of the implement to receive a high polish, the rest of it being merely roughly smoothed (though usually carefully and symmetrically shaped). As usual in this quarter of the globe, both axes and adzes were very nearly rectangular in cross-section, with flattened sides and polls though with slightly rounded angles. [[superscript]] (345-a) [[/superscript]] Possibly one or the other---perhaps even ------------------ [[superscript]] (345-a) [[/superscript]] On this form of celt, called by German archaeologists the "Vierhantbeil", see note 170, on page 179. ------------------------ both---forms may have been hafted not directly in their wooden handles but in intermediate "sleeves" of deer-antler. We found no direct evidence of such a practice; but it occurs elsewhere in Neolithic deposits, while antler was common at Wa Cha Hsieh, and the adzes of modern Chinese carpenters and joiners are still hafted on this principle, now of course in [[strikethrough]] [["slaeves"?]] [[/strikethrough]] ^[["sleeves"]] of wood. It was of interest to find that here also, as in so many other regions, the present-day peasants associated these stone objects (their real origin and use now of course long forgotten) with thunder, and looked on them as "teeth" of the Thunder God. They appeared also to believe that they possessed curative properties, although I was unable to discover just