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| Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1 |
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| Pithos b in Upper Digging. | |
| Pithos c in Upper Digging. |
Citation Information
Io8 THE ARCHEOI,OGICAI, EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU.
meantime a change occurred in the character of the objects removed between the levels of +48 and +43 feet.
While pottery of the kind characterizing the upper layers was still found,
it was mixed with an inferior
r hand-made ware, some of
which was colored red and
9 roughly painted in geometric
patterns,showing a very poor technique (group 2). The picture changed entirely as we progressed downward through the layer of débris mentioned above as lying below +41 feet, in which we were digging on April 14 and 15, 1904. This layer, which is 2 feet thick, is clearly connected with the remains of two walls which came to light below it on the west side (cf.
the sketch, fig. 37). The pottery of the upper layers had here entirely dis-
appeared. Now and then fragments of the hand-made group 2 turned up, but
the rest had an entirely new appearance. It was soon possible to distinguish
several groups—a red, a gray, and
a light-colored, whitish-green ware
(groups 3 to 5), all of which differed
in technique and form from the
` pottery of the upper layers, but
z , l --~, • - exhibited a developed wheel-work.
We were already in the presence of
- an older culture-stratum. We can
therefore say that the plane separating the older and newer cultures lies in the earth traversed by us on April 14 and 15, i. e., between +4o feet and +37 feet 7 inches.
~,•~r ~t ` "~ The new pottery accompanied
the finds of the deeper-lying layers, the only change being that the red and gray ware became more rare, while ware made of a greenish clay (group 5), was found almost ex-
Fig. 40.—Pithos c in Upper Digging.
elusively.
As regards the other finds, on April 14 at + 4o feet 8 inches in the northwest corner of the digging, we found a copper dagger, which we welcomed as a fore-
Fig. 39.—Pithos b in Upper Digging.
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