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NEOLITHIC AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS FROM CHINA.-In L'Anthropologie, T. 35, Nos. 1-2, P. Licent and P. Teilhard de Chardin describe two stone implements from an important neolithic site at Linn-Si, N.E. China, which are not only noteworthy in themselves but have a direct bearing upon a question of dating raised by Dr. Andersson in connexion with an implement found at Kalgan. The two implements in question are respectively 272 mm. long, 115 mm. broad, maximum thickness 16 mm.; 355 mm. long, 117 mm. broad, maximum thickness 26 mm. The latter differs from the former in being polished. Certain well-marked abrasions suggest that both were fitted with handles, and it is probable that they were used as hoes. The implement found by Andersson, which resembled the unpolished implement from Linn-Si, impressed him by its Solutrean style, and he suggested that it might point to an upper palaeolithic in China; but it is now clear that it must be classified as neolithic. A further point which emerges is the close affinity of these agricultural implements with those of North America. This had already been pointed out by Andersson in the case of the Kalgan implement, and is supported by Mr. Moorehead after an inspection of the Linn-Si specimens. They may therefore afford further proof that North America was peopled from Eastern Asia.
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Research Items. Nature 115, 922–924 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115922a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/115922a0