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[[underlined]] Chapter XIX.  [[/underlined]]  407.

had written me that during his walks in the vicinity he had come upon remains of a hitherto unknown prehistoric culture, apparently belonging to the (local) Chalcolithic period. [[superscript]] (362) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (362) [[/superscript]]  For the word "Aeneolithic", sometimes, though I think unfortunately, used as synonymous with "Chalcolithic" (the correct term), see footnote 46, on page 66.
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    Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, old friends of ours, hospitably took us into their home, on the school campus, and made us welcome. The next morning Mr. Wilson and Mr. Tung and I drove out to the site, about 2 1/2 miles almost due east of T'ai-ku and a little less than a mile north of the little peasant hamlet of Shih Hsiang 石 象, or "Stone Elephant". [[superscript]] (363) [[/superscript]]
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[[superscript]] (363) [[/superscript]] Upon inquiry, I learned that no "stone elephant" was now known in the place or its vicinity, and that the inhabitants had no idea how the village came by its name.
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[[underlined]] The Shih Hsiang Site. [[/underlined]]
     The spot to which Mr. Wilson led us, through an expanse of level, cultivated country dotted with trees, was situated just at the western brink of a long, narrow pond, with steeply sloping banks from 5 to 6 meters high. This body of water extended nearly due north and south but turned toward the northwest a short distance north of the point where we first reached it. Reckoned as one of the seven beauty-spots in the neighborhood of T'ai-ku, it was in reality merely an expansion of a small eastern affluent of the Fen, called locally the Tung Ho or "East River". Owing to the swarms of wildfowl that settled on it during the migratory season, it was known as the "Duck Pond". Rounded loess-covered hills a few miles away nearly encircled the whole area, while faintly visible to the west were higher ranges beyond the Fen Ho.
     The faces of the steep banks bordering both sides of the "Duck Pond" displayed, between 1 and 2 meters above the surface of the water, a dark,