Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

3 - Traces Of The Gods In China, Too
"You are a friend of my friend, you are my friend. Welcome to China.
What can I do for you?" he asked. As we approached a low table, he
gave an order aloud-to whom? Even before we could sit down,
museum guards brought paper-thin porcelain cups and a decorated pot
full of herb tea. The Director filled our cups.
I went straight to the point and said that I was interested in the Baian
Kara Ula finds and that I should like to see the scholar's report on the
stone plates that was here in Taipeh. My enthusiasm was dampened
when Mr. Chiang explained that this extensive report had not shared
the Museum's odyssey, but was still preserved in the Peking Academy,
with which he had no contact. He noticed my intense disappointment,
but could give me very little consolation with the rest of his
information.
"I know about your efforts. They delve deeply into the prehistory of
peoples. I can only help with our primeval ancestor Sinanthropus, who
was discovered in 1927 in the valley of Choukoutien, 25 miles
southwest of Peking. In the opinion of the anthropologists, this
Sinanthropus Pekinensis, Peking Man, is similar to homo
Heidelbergtensis, but in any case resembles the Chinese race, as it
exists today in 800,000,000 examples. Peking Man is supposed to
come from the Middle Pleistocene, i.e. to be about 400,000 years old.
After that there is really no more prehistory."
The Director explained that there was no further evidence of Neolithic
cultures in North China until the third millennium B.C. when the
Yang-Shao culture on the Huang Ho produced painted ribbon pottery.
About the second millennium B.C. came the Ma-Shang culture, the
black pottery culture and the stone and copper culture of Sheng Tse Ai
of Shantung, followed by the luxuriant decoration which came in with
the beginning of the Bronze Age with the t'ao t'ieh, or monster mask,
and Li Wen with its broken right-angled representations of thunder.
From the fifteenth to the eleventh centuries there was a highly