EXPLORATIONS IN TURKESTAN

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LARGER STONE IMPLEMENTS OF THE KURGANS AT ANAU.
Fig. 5i6 shows a stone cupped not unlike a door-hinge stone, but lacking its
characteristic ridges; these for want of a better term I call "cup-mortars."
The pestles and mullers of the South Kurgan show many more diversities in
form than the simple cylinder of the northern. Figs. 517 to 524 show the shapes
found. Fig. 524 (Spec. Finds Cat. S.K. I96, plate 48, fig. 8) from +21 feet in
Terrace C, South Kurgan, is included among them because of its evident after-use
for pounding, but it is doubtful if it was intended originally for that purpose. The
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implement shown in figs. 525-527 (A.S.K. I19) owes its shape only partly to design,
being a curiously weathered stone adapted by man (see plate 48, fig. 7). The
same may be said of fig. 528 (A.S.K. 220, plate 48, fig. 2).
Fig. 529 (A.S.K. 53) shows a cylinder broken at both ends, made of micaceous
schist.
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Kurgan.
after-use
521 shows a broken pestle of the cylindrical type found on the North
It is similar to that shown in fig. 496, except that it lacks signs of lateral
as a muller.
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