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the vessel was locally produced. Although the Erli-
tou ceramic vessels sometimes show incised deco-
4
ration, the band of triangles around the vessel's
midsection and the diagonal lines that fill the nar-
row bands above and below are pricked into the
surface, penetrating the layer of the black paint to
the clay body below. Pricked designs, rare at Erlitou,
are regularly seen on Neolithic pottery across a
broad area of the northeast, including the Hong-
shan wares, which come from the same geographi-
cal region where the Lower Xiajiadian culture
later developed. LF-H
1 Excavated in 1977 (M 612:10); published: Zhongguo 1993,
132, fig. 104:2; Zhongguo 1996, 204, fig. 94:1.
2 Zhongguo 1996, color pi. 20:1.
3 A gui closely comparable to cat. 44 was recovered from
M 49, a Period II burial at Erlitou (Zhongguo Erlitou 1992,
297, fig. 4:3).
4 For example, a gui from M 33 at the Erlitou site of Yichuan
Nanzhai (Henan 1996, 39, fig. 6:8; i. 4:3).
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