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0183 Archaeological Researches in Sinkiang : vol.1
新疆の考古学的調査 : vol.1
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[Figure] 36 ロプ・ノール地方。ヘディン、ホーナー、陳(チェン)、ノーリン、ベリマンによる調査に基づいて編纂された予備地図。(これを参照してつくられた専門地図が図18と図37である)The Lop-nor region. Preliminary map compiled from the surveys of HEDIN, HÖRNER, CHEN, NORIN, and BERGMAN (The two special maps referred to are Figs. 18 and 37).

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doi: 10.20676/00000195
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Weapons.

Of true weapons very little is found in the Central Asian fortifications of anci-
ent times. When the garrisons left they took their weapons along with them, or
when an aggressor was successful he took possession of the weapons of the conquer-
ed and carried them away with him. What is left to us are only broken fragments or
accidentally lost objects, and some arrow-heads, the latter corresponding to spent
"ammunition".

The best object found by Hörner and Chen is the cross-bow mechanism Pl.
29: 18. It is of the ordinary type used in the Han period, quite plain, but in good
order. Hedin found the trigger of a similar mechanism, Pl. 31: 7, and Stein has
a bolt with square head from the Lou-lan station (Stein 1921, Pl. XXXVI, L. A.
II. v. 002), though he did not recognize its use as a bolt of a cross-bow mechanism.
The cross-bow is an infantry weapon of defensive nature, and was apparently in-
vented by the Chinese. It was in use as early as B. C. 228 as a cross-bow lock was

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