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0212 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
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130   THE ARCHEOI,OGICAI, EXCAVATIONS IN ANAU.

and y which were found in the shaft of the west gallery at - 20.75 feet. In the shaft of the east gallery, also, pottery of the groups a and b was found in all

layers below datum.

For these reasons, we must look upon still another pottery, group m, which occurred within the lowest strata, only as an older and transitory occurrence in the evolution of culture I. We will now call this group c, and examine more carefully into its technique, form, and ornamentation.

(c) THIN, PAINTED CUPS OF THE LONER STRATA.
(Plate 22.)

The significance of the thin, painted cups of the lower strata in connection with the topography of the hill may be shown by a list of the points at which they were found—west gallery shaft, between - 14 feet and - 24 feet (April 2-5,

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1904) ; north diggings (1 and 2), between -12 and - 19 feet (April 4-5, 1904) terrace III, between +17 and + 16 feet (April 6, 1904).

The last-mentioned locality is surprising because it belongs to the middle strata. Still it concerns only a single lip-piece (fig. 59; plate 22, fig. 6) which

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