Figure 7. Crouching stone “fish” figure from the Mesolithic site of Lepenski Vir. Lepenski Vir Museum. Photograph by Gregory L. Dexter.

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Figure 8. Pot with sculpted human figure. Ledu, Liuwan, Western China, Machang Phase of Majiayao Culture, ca. 2300 BCE. Courtesy of the National Museum of China.

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Figure 9. Pot with sculpted human figure. Detail. Ledu, Liuwan, Western China, Machang Phase of Majiayao Culture, ca. 2300 BCE. Courtesy of the National Museum of China.

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Figure 10. Vessel with two perforated knobs and small, rimmed mouth. China, Neolithic Period, Machang Type, late third millennium BCE. Earthenware with design of a figure having a schematic head in black and red pigment. E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and Edwin F. Jack Fund. 1988.31. Courtesy of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Figure 11. Pot depicting figure with “finny” arms and shoulders. Western China, Machang Phase of Majiayao Culture, ca. 2300 BCE. Charlotte and John Weber Collection. 1992.165.8. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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