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Chapter VII. 
Miscellaneous Notes on Different Articles.

Tools, weapons and many articles for utilitarian or ornamental ^[[purpose]] are generally made of the following materials: stone, bone,shell and bronze.  The following notes include only those which are either the most recurrent or culturally significant.

1. Knife

Several hundreds of stone knives, have been recovered from Yin-hsü in the fall season of 1929.  Most of them are made from schists; slate, sandstone, and diorite are occassionally used.

The blade is usually straight, with a thick back, pointing at one end,  but raising to a considerable height at the the other,so as to facilitate grasping; the shape shifts between an irregular triangle and a quadrangle (Plate XVIII:1,3)

Many have two blades, one on the longer and one on the shorter edge.  These were probably used both for cutting and scraping (XVIII:4).

There are several with curved blade; they are evidently sickles.  Their function must be at any rate different from the straight edged group (XVIII:2)

Bronze knife is of very rare occurrence; only two have been discovered so far, both are provided with a handle, and one ending in a ring.  Typologically ^[[the]] latter one could not be derived from the stone form (XVIII:5,6).

In this connection, it is interesting to note that a semilunar rectangular knife which figures so importantly in the neolithic culture of N.China was also found from this site.  But [[strikethrough]]they are[[/strikethrough]]^[[it is]] as rare as the bronze knife.