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[[underlined]] Chapter XIX. [[/underlined]] 406.

[[underlined]] Late Prehistoric Culture
             of Southern Manchuria. [[/underlined]]

    During the late summer of 1933 Mrs. Bishop and I, under somewhat insistent medical advice, went from Tientsin by sea for a week's rest at Port Arthur, on the southern tip of the Liaotung Peninsula. While there we spent considerable time at the very interesting and important Port Arthur Museum, studying the Late Prehistoric collections made in the surrounding country by Japanese archaeologists.
     These collections, as we might expect of a region marginal to northern China, appeared to belong to a somewhat retarded culture which was however fundamentally related to the Late Neolithic of that area. So far as I was able to learn, the Japanese had not yet discovered---or at least identified---pit-dwellings like those, for example, at Wa Cha Hsieh^[[;]] [[strikethrough]] (on these; see pp. 379 [[underlined]] sqq. [[/underlined]]); [[/strikethrough]] but the local culture in general and particularly very many of its chief types of artifacts, such as semilunar and rectangular stone knives, stone celts, and arrowpoints, seemed to be identical in shape with those that we had found in southwestern Shansi. Much of the pottery of the unpainted sort was also closely similar; while painted ware also occurred, some of it at least (to judge from the associated finds) a good deal later in date than that of northern China but also bearing geometrical patterns, rectilinear and angular, however, not curvilinear, in form ([[underlined]] cf. [[/underlined]] page 387).

[[underlined]] A New Culture in Central Shansi. [[/underlined]]
     Early in September of the same year, 1933, Mr. Tung and I went to T'ai-ku [[2 Chinese characters]], in central Shansi; [[superscript]] (361) [[/superscript]] for Mr. S. E. Wilson, then treas-
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[[superscript]] (361) [[/superscript]] T'ai-ku, slightly southeast of the provincial capital, T'ai-yüan, lies about 15 miles east of the Fên River.
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urer of the Oberlin-Shansi Memorial School, on the outskirts of the town,

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