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THE HONGKONG. DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 9Tu, · 1924
PREHISTORIC CHINA. GRAVEYARD OF SKULLS AND BONES.
PAPER BY DR. TING,
THE UN LUNG BUS COLLISION,
EVIDENCE QOF A TICKET COLLECTOR.
The case in which two drivers, are charge with manslaughter, arising out of the recent collision of two bases on the In Lang Bridge, in the New Per- ritories, when four people were killed and many others injured, was continueið: before Mr. Lindsell yesterday afternoon.
The Peking Historical Association had! the privilege, on April 19th, of hearing paper by Dr, V. K. Ting. the Chinese geologist and historian, in which the latest news about paleontological ands in China were combined in an illuminating
The evidence of various witnesses show. way with date from old Chinese litern- tury. The title of the paper was: Prehised that at 11 o'clock on the morning of turie thin the Light of Rent the 6th April another has of the sante search. The following is an neemt of Company met with an'accident at Ching
Lung Tau, the bus being overturned. the paper, without pretension to com pleteness or to technical aceuruey.
Paleolithic man begins in Europe about the nickle of the pleitocene period. In Ja only two places is there found under the loss a thin layer of sand with nother thin layer of gravel under it which is qrobably riddle pleistocene and is called the San Men series, from the place where it was discovered by Dr. Ting
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In Siberia remains of paleolithic uan I have been discovered in 1586 near Kranse- Jarsk, in sand below joen mixed with reinaitis of the harse, the bisou, the nuan moth and the warthaired rhinoceros. This proved that loss belongs to the late pleistocene period.
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Nothing of paleolithic man was known in China until last year, when Fathers Livrat and Teilhard de Chardin discover ed paleolithic remains in three places in Ordus, at the bend of the Yellow River. To one of them, the implements found were typically Housterian, whipped on one
The conductor of Bus No. 1924 (one) of the buses concerned in the collision) said the bus loft Ping Shan with over 40 passengers. The number allowed by Arriving at Ping the licence was 2 Shan Police Sergeant Stimson stopped the bus and turned away 7 passengers in excess of the number allowed. He (th conductor) did not know at what speel the bur was going at when it collided. Hi was collecting fares at the time. Suddenly lae was knocked sensed. When he regain id consciousness, about ter ininute kiter, found that his hus had been wrecked. In reply to Trate Inspeet: Kent, wis said that after the Sergeant had turard away the excess passengers the driver scolded him for allowing prople to board the bus when it was full. Wit ness told the driver that it was very felt to stop people from boarding the there were two entraBOOS, bus na
The case was again adjourned...
FINED.
side and retouched at the edge. The MASTER OF THE "TAI LEE" animal remains included eggs of the pre- historic ostrich, and the wool-haired rhinocerus. In the second there was in addition the manmoth and an antelope tropical Africa. In existing now only
two plage thran deposits were under the lons.
These remarkable discoveries besides establishing the fact of the existence of paleoilthie man in China have also show that Musterian before the formation of
Iness.
YANG SHAO CULTURE
Then the speaker gave an account of Dr. J. . Anderson's work, some of which is very recent news communicated to Dr. Ting in personal letters.
SCHARGING SEAMEX WITHOUT
SANCTION OF HARBOUR MASTER.
Captain J. Webster. Master of the x's. To Lee, was summoned before the
Marine Court yesterday, for (1) - fully discharging two seamen without the sanction of the Harbour Master; and (2) lawfully shipping four seamen to do duty on board.
Webster pleaded Captain Guilty.".
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Mr. G. W. Coysh, Departmental Ship- ing Master, stated that he visited the men
whose names were not qui the articles This netion was the result of the complaints made by two scanica são said they had been discharged.
In 1990 par Shanhaikwan and later inship and mustered the crew and found 4 the same year in Honan, at Yang Shan, Pr. Anderson found neolithic deposits in eluding "anong others tw kinds of pot tors, are coarse and the other polyehronie. At Yang Shao a veritable graveyard was Captain Webster said that he bad no- found. the numerous skulls and hones of thing to do with the men or their pay- which are being studied by Dr. Black ment. The changes took place without
Dr. Stevenson. Just now Dr. Anddy, his knowledge. an is in Kansu, where he has discovered The Magistrate. (Lieut.-Condr. Con- sone kitchen middens. also containing way Hake, R.N.R.) made some strong two'sorts of pottery, one of which is polycomments on Captain Webster's methesds chrome. But the most interesting disof maintaining discipline and control. in covery in Kansa is that of some soral view of the gravity of the situation as re- unper objects, found together with neobards piracy, this amounted, he said, thie stone implemrate.
to neglect of duty,
All these remains seen to belong tone culture which may be called the Yang Shaa uturo. The stone implements are very well lished, so they cannot be older than the neolithic period. The pot tery is made on the potter's wheel. The only animal remains, practically, are those of the big an animal which is not kept by Mongolians and Tibetans). Veszbis of clay which are found in these remains resemble the Tine and i bronze vases which are
A fine of $10 was imposed.
The Yang Shao culture would be con temporary with the beginning of the cops per age or might just precede it, say about 3000 B.C.
Chinese civilization then would not be much okler than that of southern Europe. Of course there are so far, too few finda characteristic of the Chon to say anything quite definitely.
The reason for which there are un' dynasty. Cowrie shell-tones is found, particularly in the mouths of the skulls, paléontological remains before those of it being an old Chinese custom to place the Ordos, in other words, the case of It the thinness of the pleistocene layer coins in the mouths of the dend seems therefore that the Yang Shan seems to be, according to Dr. Ting, that people were true Chinese, ennelusion the pleistocene period was not one in which the close study of the skeletons which deposits were formed in China but. Lone in which erosion took place and the Found will not doubt confirm:
De Ting then proceeded in a mest in you formation began. so that wedi- teresting way to compare the results of ments did not forma in China before the paleontology with those of the most re-Mousterian period.
cent research in Chinese ancient history. Ir seems possible to determine approxim ately from historical records when i ail copper were first used in Chin
POTS MADE IN 2700 8.1.
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SOUTH CHINA'S XEORITOS.
And why are there no remains for the period between the Ordos and the Yang Shao cultures! That was the period dur- ing which the loess deposits were formed. As late as 650 B.C. when à feudal lord Now loess formation means a cold and in Homan went to Chu, the king of Ch'n dry climate. The loess period corresponds presented him with a lot of bronze and to that of greatest glaciation in Europe. then regretted it, being afraid that this The dryness then prevailing in Cbinn pre- bronze would be used for the making of; vented the glaciations, but the climatic weapons. This shows that of that time conditions were unfavourable to human weaous were not yet made of irone A life.
However loess formation must have legend says that iron was discovered hy the people, of Wo and Yuch (Southern ended long before the time of the Yang Kiangsu and (bekiang). The character Shao culture: further research will un- for iron is composed of the pharacter für Joubtedly reveal earlier cultures..
1 Eastern barherian, and of the charAs to why no culture younger than that
acter for metal, and so can be interpreted
the metal of the 1 harbarians,"
of Yang Shao has bees found, Dr. "Ander son's hypothesis is that soon afterwards rubbish began to he used as manure, sa
traces of these later cultures would thus be found only on the sites of old towns.
A writer of the Han Dynasty has a very striking passage in which he makes that villages did not leave remains; good guess at the different caltural ages. He writes that in Shen, Nung's time, magical power, resided in stone imple meats: that, in Hung Tis time that magical power passe to jade with whic weapons were made that in the great Yu's time thats power passed to brangs (or copper, the character mas mean both thanks to which the great canals were excurated but now, he concludes, the magical force is found in iron.
While the loess was forming in North China; it is quite likely that South China was inhabited. Dr. Ting's hypothesis is that those inhabitants were possibly iegritos such as are cow living in the Philippines, in the Andaman islands and in the islands near Furniosa, and traces of which are still found in Yunuan About A.C. a Roman merchant wha The polychrome pottery discovered in from Tonkin visited the king of Wu, was the Yang Shao deposits has heen judged giver by him twenty negrito slaves taken This by experts to be contemporary of the inn war in Southern Anhui Mediterranean polychrome, Professor negrito race, could not have developed if Frantz's hypothesis as to its date in 20 the loess region had not been protecting BC. As this pottery is found with cap.it froin the more advanced races on the
Weste per oberts, and thus presedes the bronzi age, this would agree with the idea of the At the close, of the loess perind, the Han writer that bronze Fegan with Ye. Ainus, the Igorotes, and the Esqnimaux ir about 2200. We may say, then, that moved castwards passing to the North the Yang Shad julture immediately pre- of China, and the ancestors of the Mon Khmers. Shius, Lolos, Tibetans and fin eeded the Huja dynasty.
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thronology of the beginning of the differ: the Yang Shao people. However, es cul- cards have been printed.. For measuring the Colony new Singles Champion (who
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