Show Painted Pottery An absorbing question In regard to the painted pottery of northwestern northwest northwest- em ern China is whether or not it is related to similar painted pottery found in the Near East southern Russia and the Danube valley As Asmore Asmore Asmore more and more exploration and excavation excavation excavation ex ex- ex- ex has been done more sites with painted pottery have been found along the presumed routes by which it could have entered China from the west vest An analysis of the designs designs de de- de signs also seems to indicate a generic relation between some of the western pottery and some of that found in China There is no evi evi- evidence evidence dence however that the people who made the pottery in China migrated there from the west |