Page 10 - Lungshan Pottery Lunshanoid Research 1977 Paper

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He also notes i n the same article

"the possibility i s certainly strengthened that the
Lungshanoid horizon irst "began to form i n the Lower
f
Yangtze Valley and i t s adjacent coastal areasj i n any

event, the Miao-ti-kou II Culture has now further
a
diminished i n stature as the ancestral culture of ll
other Lungshanoid cultures. ... As a horizon, the
Lungshanoid could s t i l l have come about, on the founda-
tion of prior culture in the Lower Yangtze Valley

(possibly a southern cord-marked pottery culture not
dissimilar to the one represented by the Hsien-jen
Cave remains in Wan-nien, Kiangsi), as the result of a
strong and stimulating cultural impact from the Yangshao

Culture" (1973« 5 2 7 ) .
In other words, i t is quite obvious that an another "Nuclear

Area" seems to have emerged in Southeast China. Mainland
Chinese archaeologists, i n spite of their own fixed ideology

have stated that i t is "notable" that the radiocarbon dates
of the Neolithic Culture in Southeast China are not later

than those fdr the Chung-yuan (An 9 7 2 1 40, Wu 1 9 7 3 * 5 6 - 7 ) .
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This paper has been written primarily as a pilot study

to test the traditional classification of Lungshanoid sites

in this area by using cluster analysis and multidimensional

scaling.