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[[underline]] Chapter XVIII. [[/underline]] 39^[[3.]]

perhaps employed in hollowing out the pit-dwellings of the inhabitants rather than as agricultural implements, for which they seemed ill-adapted ([[underline]] cf. [[/underline]] ^[[f]]ig. 58, left, for an undoubted Chinese stone mattock---perhaps a "foot-plow").  There were also bone hairpins (^[[p]]l. 67, fig. 1); bone awls (^[[p]]l. 67, fig. 2); perforated bone needles; spinning-whorls of stone and baked clay (^[[p]]l. 65, fig. [[strikethrough]] 2 [[/strikethrough]] 1); and stone beads.  The excavators also found a few [[underline]] pintaderas [[/underline]]---baked clay stamps for imprinting on the face or person simple geometrical patterns, magical or merely decorative, in cinnabar, lumps of which likewise occurred.  There were too the clay whistles, phalli and much conventionalized birds' heads already noted.

[[underline]] Evidences of Weaving and Plaiting. [[/underline]]
  True textiles of any sort, if such really existed during the period when the site at Wa Cha Hsieh was occupied, have naturally not survived.  That weaving was already known/ [[insertion]] then [[/insertion]] in northern China, certain impressions on potsherds may possibly indicate. [[superscript]] (348) [[/superscript]] These particular specimens were how-
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[[superscript]] (348) [[/superscript]]  If true weaving (not merely the manufacture of bark-cloth) in China really goes back to her Neolithic period, the fibers used in the process must almost certainly have been those of the cultivated hemp plant ([[underline]] Cannabis sativa [[/underline]]), very early known in eastern Asia, where it has occupied the place held in the Occident by flax and its derivative, linen.
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ever of doubtful origin, and neither Mr. Tung nor I was fully satisfied that they were actually coeval with the Neolithic occupancy of the site. For they were all surface-finds, and hence might have been of far later date.  The question requires considerable further study before it can be answered with any assurance.
     About the impressions of matting and basketry, however, there can be no doubt; for they were not only clear and definite, but the shards bearing them were found [[underline]] in situ [[/underline]] in the cultural deposits themselves.  Other markings looked as though they might have been made with bark-cloth (see