Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World/Compton's Atlas of the Ancient World.iso/pc/media/ae/nc/iw/aenciw10.cap

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1    0    Stone grindstone and sickles were important tools for early Chinese farmers.
2    0    Yangshao farmers often painted their pottery.
3    0    This carpentry shows that the rice farmers at Hemudu were also skilled at wood-working.
4    0    The cemetery at Yuanjunmiao: the graves (some containing more than one body) were divided into 2 clan groups, buried in rows.
5    0    Some of the repertoire of signs incised on Yangshao pottery, probably ancestral to the later pictographic script.
6    0    Prestigious items, such as this jade necklace, were made for the emerging social elites.
7    0    The head of baked clay from the Goddess Temple at Niuheliang.
8    0    A fine blackware Longshan vessel from Weifang in Shandong Province.
9    0    These bodies stuffed down a well testify to a violent massacre.
10    0    Beautiful jade tubes and rings were made by craft specialists for the top levels of Liangzhu society.
11    0    Rice cultivation was an important development in south China.  Rootcrops may also have been important.
12    0    Stone tools like these from Bac Bo were used for gathering and hunting by the foragers of South-East Asia.
13    0    The Dong Son culture is best known for its lavish bronze drums.
14    0    This man from Ban Na Di was buried wearing some of the earliest metal from South-East Asia.