ABSTRACT
Chinese mythology has adapted from India a unique story of the origin of the world and of mankind. Legend became history when archaeology provided data that confirmed the historicity and the details of the legendary story of the Shang Dynasty. In the rich Neolithic findings in China there have been uncovered two basically different types of pottery, one linked to pottery finds in Central Asia and the other of clearly indigenous Chinese origin. The former, chiefly found in Kansu and Honan, but also in other sites in Western China, has great similarity with Neolithic pottery of Central Asia. In the northeastern region of China Proper a particular shape of vessel has been unearthed that has no parallel in the Northwest or as for that matter in Central Asia or elsewhere. Paleontologists of the geological survey of China under the direction of J. G. Andersson found skeletal remains of early man in a cave called Chou-k'ou-tien, thirty miles southwest of Peking.
