File:Ruins of desert Cathay - personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China (1912) (14596521729).jpg

Identifier: ruinsofdesertcat01stei (find matches)
Title: Ruins of desert Cathay : personal narrative of explorations in Central Asia and westernmost China
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Stein, Aurel, Sir, 1862-1943 Archaeological Survey of India
Subjects:
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
. A Han coin picked up close to thatevenings camp was our last datable relic. But, of course,where erosion had free play it had laid bare also remains offar earlier periods. Thus we met on that first march rarepatches of very coarse pottery, which was manifestly neo-lithic ; and when nearing camp I picked up a fine celt oraxe-head of jade four inches long, undoubtedly belongingto the later phase of the Stone Age. How near the latterapproached our earliest historical epoch in this region is aquestion which it is quite impossible to answer at present. Our march on December 30th, under a cloudy sky andwith the wind for a change blowing from the west andnorth-west, was still easy. But certain significant observa-tions suggested that we were passing into different ground.The characteristic direction of erosion from north-east tosouth-west was no longer observable on such bare banksand surfaces of clay as we met with. The dunes, at firstquite low, grew slowly in height, while the flat, bare
Text Appearing After Image:
126. CAMELS BEING LOADED FOR START FROM LOP-NOR SITE,

Note About Images