Dr
Pat Rich
Department of Earth Sciences
Monash University - Clayton - Victoria
28-6-1985
Dear
Pat,
Thank
you for your letter of 26th June. Good to hear from you again also
thanks for the address. Fine business. He is the bloke I want to get to.
However
yesterday I had my first break through to mainland China, receiving a reply
from Dr Han Defen (who you recommended). He is a friend of Professor Zhou Ban
Xiang who did a paper on the excavations at Cishan North China where he did
the excavating. It’s a very important paper, as the material (chicken bones
etc) were dated around 5000 BC. I have the analysis of this work by Sally
Rodwell (Cambridge).
However
Dr Han Defen is sending me out a copy of Zhou’s paper as well as copies of
photographs of earthenware models of chickens also found in the area (dated
around 3000 BC I think). These discoveries open up new fields and will be very
helpful in my study.
Hou,....
Lian Hai is at the same Institute as Han Defen so I should be able to make
contact OK. By the way Dr Han Defen asked me to pass his best regards to you.
Hope
you are keeping well and by the way is it your husband that recovered the
fossil etc down there. I noted it in one of the magazines.
Enclosed
is a copy of the Chicken Bone
book. Have just about finished the manuscript for the next book Gallus
species which will include a supplement to the bone book. All the
best now.
Sincerely
yours,