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distribution not only in Eastern Honan and Shantung, but

also in the area along the Pacific coast from Pohai Bay

to Hang-chow Bay in Northern Chekiang (Chang 19681 122-124).

Since the initial discovery of these two different

cultures, the interrelationship between the two of them

has been energetically discussed. General speaking,

Chinese archaeologists during the 1 9 3 0 s regarded the
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Painted Pottery culture (Yangshao) of western Honan,

Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu, and the Black Pottery culture

(Lungshan) of Eastern Honan and Shantung, as a pair of

opposing but parallel cultures of the late Neolithic

period immediately preceding the rise of Shang civilization

(Chang 19681 124, 1969* 3 - 4 ) . However, this -Two Culture"

framework faced a dilemma when Lungshan-like gray pottery

was discovered in the Weishui Valley of Shensi in 1 9 4 3 »

In attempting to resolve this problem, the discoverer of

Lungshan-like cultures, Prof. Shih Chang-ju, added a

third culture — Gray Pottery Culture — to the Chinese

Neolithic Cultures in his subsequent publication (Shih

1952: 65-75), On the other hand, two Japanese scholars,
Mizuno Seiichi ( 1 9 5 6 ) and Sekino Takashi ( 1 9 5 6 ) , were the

first to suggest that i t was quite possible for the black

pottery of the Lungshan culture to have developed from