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the vessel was locally produced. Although the Erlitou
ceramic vessels sometimes show incised decoration,
4 the band of triangles around the vessel's
midsection and the diagonal lines that fill the narrow
bands above and below are pricked into the
surface, penetrating the layer of the black paint to
the clay body below. Pricked designs, rare at Erlitou,
are regularly seen on Neolithic pottery across a
broad area of the northeast, including the Hongshan
wares, which come from the same geographical
region where the Lower Xiajiadian culture
later developed.
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1 Excavated in 1977 (M 612:10); published: Zhongguo 1993,
132, fig. 104:2; Zhongguo 1996, 204, fig. 94:1.
2 Zhongguo 1996, color pi. 20:1.
3 A gui closely comparable to cat. 44 was recovered from
M 49, a Period II burial at Erlitou (Zhongguo Erlitou 1992,
297, fig. 4:3).
4 For example, a gui from M 33 at the Erlitou site of Yichuan
Nanzhai (Henan 1996, 39, fig. 6:8; i. 4:3).
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