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Dr. L i (1956J 37) comments concerning the illustrations

of the pottery vessels which are arranged under the rules

described above that "perhaps some of those extremely

similar i n shape are divided into two different groups

but some of those quite different i n shape are grouped into

one cluster". For example, both forms of pottery of 5P
and 15N, which are similar i n shape are divided into

005 and 015 groups (Fig. 5) (Li 1956t Corpus of Yin-hsu
Pottery I), the same situation of 16G and 46D are also

divided into 016 and 046 groups (Fig. 5»6) (Corpus of
Yin-hsu Pottery I and II); while 107P and 107E or 107M

quite different i n shape are grouped into the 107 cluster

(Fig. 7 ) (Corpus of Yin-hsu Pottery III), 279F and 279K

into the 279 cluster (Fig. 8) (Corpus of Yin-hsu Pottery

XI), 295D and 295G into the 295 group (Fig. 9 ) (Corpus of

Yin-hsu Pottery XII), 309E and 309P or 309K or 309G into

the 309 cluster (Fig. 10) (Corpus of Yin-hsu Pottery XIII),

and so on. Nonetheless, K.C. Chang comments that L i Chi*s

work is "too Scientific" (Chang 1 9 5 7 ) . It is true, since

the criteria he uses ?are without much cultural significance,

his classification of Hsiao-Vun Pottery i s too close to

natural science to be useful to a social science.