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China

A cong cylinder with a deity face design on display at the Shanghai Museum (fig.). It was unearthed from a tomb dating from the Liangzhu Culture, i.e. the last Neolithic jade culture in the Yangtze River Delta, and is dated between 3200 and 2200 BC.

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