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process of classification employed here looks like that

of the Midwestern taxonomic method developed by W.C.

Mckern (1939)* the diagnostic traits used in this parti-

cular Lungshanoid classification are fairJ^Qbsisure.

For instances, basket weaving implements, wooden oars,

wooden pestles and mortars, and a high percentage of

black ware seem to be regarded as the diagnostic traits

for the Liang-chu culture, while eggshell painted pottery

and spindle whorls of painted pottery seem to serve as

the diagnostic traits for the Ch'u-chia-ling culture.

But most of the time the vague phrase "from the point of

view of the cultural characteristic" (tit JnUfi ftttyis

widely employed. However, the basic concepts of culture

underlying these classifications seemingly are the total

traits of the artifacts. In other words, they use a nor-

mative approach and treat culture as a body of shared ideas,

values and beliefs — the "norms" of a human group as i n

Flannery's description of culture history. This is one

of the differing views of culture summarized by Flannery

( 1 9 6 7 : 1 0 3 ) .

Since the time that culture was defined as man's

extrasomatic adaptation to his total sociological and