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down to the loess bottom, thus carrying the disturbance right thru the cultural stratum.  Under such circumstances, it is obvious that the whole deposit in this place must have been turned upside down, right and left in the most haphazard manner.  Those present in the burial of this gentleman might have seen the inscribed bones and white pottery turned up from the pit, but how meaningless they were to them at that [[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]] time!  So in filling up this burial pit, they redeposited them in the same place.  However, judged by all circumstances no further disturbances seem to have taken place after this burial.  So in the course of our digging here, except for the burial goods at the bottom and a piece of porcelain, all other artifacts recovered are evidently contemporaneous with the inscribed bones.  Such finds show no difference from those recovered from pit(La. 13c B2aBn) either in type or in quality. 

It is quite likely the case that even the undisturbed cultural stratum was not formed all at once.  Many causes led to the final abandonment of this city.  Before the final catastrophe took place, there were probably minor destructions that laid the foundation of the cultural deposit in this region.  The different trenches opened show that the old undisturbed deposits are by no means homogeneous in their general conditions.  In the previous analysis, I have already referred to the fact that in certain cases the artifacts in the deposit from natural groups; but as the observation was made on the basis of a few opened shafts, so the inference was laid down rather tentatively.  The fall excavations add a great deal more of these data, confirming the general inference.  Plates ^[[IV]]-  show the natural conditions of such grouped artifacts.  The deer-horns found in La. 12b are in some case trimmed; the sawed marks are clearly shown in the picture(Plate ^[[III]]).  This was probably a repository where these horns were stored for making