29. Further Descriptions of Stone Implements from 



Yunnan. 



By J. Coggin Brown, M.8a, F.G.S. 



[With Plates XXV-XXX.l 



Presented at the First Indian Science Congress, January 17th, 1914. 

 Published with the permission of the Director, Geological 



Survey of India. 



In the year 1868, John Anderson was the first to discover 

 stone implements in Yunnan, or, indeed, in China itself. 

 Noticing a stone implement exposed for sale on a stall in the 

 Teng-yueh bazaar, he purchased it for the equivalent of a few 

 pence. No sooner was his liking for such objects known, 

 than he was besieged by needy persons who willingly parted 

 with them for small sums. In this way about one hundred 

 and fifty specimens were procured by different members of the 

 expedition which he was accompanying in the capacity of 

 medical officer and naturalist. Most were obtained in Teng- 

 yueh, and a few in the Santa Valley. 1 



Following in Anderson's tracks in 1909, I was able to 

 procure numerous specimens of the same kinds of implements 

 in Teng-yiieh, and I have described and figured a representative 

 series of twelve of these artifacts. Nine of the specimens 

 were f ishioned from various varieties of jadeite, the other 

 three being cut from a slate-like rock, a fine-grained white 

 quartzite and a basaltic rock.* 



During extensive travels through Yunnan in 1909 and 

 1910, I succeeded in making a large collection of stone imple- 

 ments from other localities. These I propose to describe here, 

 after which I shall discuss the bearing which they have on the 

 vexed question of the stone age in China as a whole. 



Figure 1 represents one of the largest specimens in the 

 collection, a heavy, broad axe of polished basalt from Hsia- 



1 An account of the travels of this expedition is to be found in the 

 following works: (a), A Report on the Expedition to Western Yunnan, 

 via Bhamo, by John Anderson, M.D.. Calcutta, 1871; and (6) Manda- 

 lay to Momein, — a narrative of two expeditions to Western China of 1868 

 and 1875, by the same author. London, 1876. Appendix C. pp. 410-415 

 of Anderson's 1871 report is entitled, The Stone Implements of Yun- 

 nan, with the description of a bronze, axe-like weapon from the Sanda 

 Valley. F 



2 J. Coggin Brown, Stone Implements from the Teng-yueh District. 

 Yunnan Province, Western China, with a short account of the beliefs of 

 the Yunnanese regarding these objects. Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal. 

 Vol. V, New Series, No. 8. 1909, pp. 299-305. 



