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civilization — only occured in North China, the Yellow

River Valley was the earliest nuclear area in the Far
East (pp. 3 6 - 3 7 ) .

( 3 ) However, the Lungshanoid cultures in South China
probably developed from Cord-marked pottery as another

cultural category. Some aspects of this culture were
derived from the Yangshao culture, while the Lungshanoid

cultures made some cultural contributions to North China.

The peoples of the Lungshanoid cultures seemed to be

among the ancestors of the Malayopolynesians (p. 3 7 ) .

(4) It is obvious that the new evidence in Thailand s
i
extremely important in the prehistory of Indochina but

"they don't have to be made to bear — ineffectively —

upon the origin of distant China" (p. 3 7 ) • In his rticle
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in Current Anthropology (1973)» Chang also clearly points

out thati
"the Pan-p'o dates of North China (ZK-38, ZK-121, ZK-

1 2 7 ) and Tainan date of Taiwan (SI-1229) show that by
at least 4000 B.C. two ceramic cultures existed side
by side in North and Southeast China. Neither can be

said to represent the initial form of i t s ceramic
tradition, and neither can at this time be seen as
derivative of the other" ( 1 9 7 3 * 5 5 ) .