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concluded that the three major clusters are the result

of environmental adaptation. However, this hypothesis is

weakened "by the fact that the other two clusters do not

seem to reflect similar environmental adaptation, but are

based on a wide variety of different characteristics.

The relationship between these characteristics appeared

to be too complicated for interpretation at this time.

It is also very interesting that clusters I and II are

clearly distributed in the upper half of Vector 1, and
cluster III, IV and V are distributed in one end of Vector

2, while cluster VI and VII are distributed in the other
(Fig. 1 3 ) . The multidimensional scaling confirms the

cluster analysis in broad outline. It is obvious that

this pilot study employing cluster analysis and multidi-

mensional scaling brings us some new and difficult phenomena

to explain. However, from another point of view, the com-

plexity and/or multidimensional nature of the Lungshanoid

cultures is also revealed by this method.