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length — + 11, breadth at bottom — 2*5 cms., at top — 3*6 cms., 



thickness — 2*5. 



The relation of these to other Chinese Finds. 



The list of stone implements hitherto discovered in China 

 is a small one, which may be briefly summarised — 



1. Anderson's specimens. 



2. E. Colborne Baber in 1886 reported the discovery of 



polished axe-heads and chisels from stone coffins in Chung- 

 king, Ssu-ch'uan. 



3. In 1884 J. Edkins described a stone hatchet found by 

 Williams in a grave mound near Yu-Chou, 110 miles west of 



Peking. 



4. Descriptions of two flint arrow heads found by Armand 



David in Mongolia were published in 1886. 



5. Giglioli has published an account of a stone imple- 

 ment found in 1896 by Coltelli near Yen-an Fu, in Shensi. 



6. In the Bishop collection there are a few jade imple- 

 ments which Bushell has described. 



7. My own first collection. 



8. Laufer has collected and described 15 jade implements 

 from Sin-ngan Fu in Shensi, where they were obtained from 

 ancient graves of the Chou dynasty (1122 b.c-249 b.c), and 

 has also described Couling's collection of 12 surface finds from 



Tsing-chou Fu in Shantung. 



Our new specimens show the intermingling of two groups, 

 one containing forms similar to those from Shan-tung in North 

 China, and the other very like certain Indo-Chinese implements. 

 It is practically certain that they were produced rather by an 

 aboriginal non-Chinese race than by a Chinese one. 



From a study of the available evidence Laufer » has sum- 

 marised our present knowledge of the Chinese stone culture, 

 and as our collections help to prove his conclusions still further 

 they mav be brought forward here. 



1. All stone implements so far found in China are 

 polished, and they therefore belong to that class which so far 

 as prehistoric India, Egypt or Europe are concerned, is 



termed Neolithic. _, , 



2. The finds can be divided into two groups. Those from 

 the surface and those from graves. The former are rougher and 

 more primitive than the latter, which are often of perfect 

 design and exquisite finish. Whether there is any chrono- 

 logical difference between them is still an open question 



3. The prevailing types so far discovered are chisels, 

 hammerstones and hammer-shaped axes and mattocks. 



4. No stone workshops, implement factories, or traces ot 



• Loc. cit. , pp. 54-55 



