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The most important discovery among the ceramics is, however, a piece of painted pottery of definitely Yang-shao type; this discovery is so unique that it at once calls to one's mind the whole problem of the relationship of the cultural remains represented by this site with those from Yang-shao.
  Mixed together with these myriads of pot-shards, animal bones and inscribed plastrons and scapulae, are the various bronzes and bronze moulds, stone implements and stone art works, shell ornaments and bone ornaments--all these will be duly noted in later chapters. It is probably interesting to note that what has given arise the widest and the deepest interest among the general public are the under piece of a stone torso, probably used for architectural purpose, and a crushed ox-head borne with inscriptions, the first of its kind that has been discovered.