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Situ (office)

Situ was one of the highest ranking government offices in ancient China. Established in the Western Zhou dynasty, it was originally written as , meaning Administrator of Land.

During the Han dynasty, the title became written with the different characters , which is translated variously as Minister over the Masses or Excellency over the Masses. It was one of the three most important official posts during the Han dynasty, called the Three Excellencies. The nominal salary for the post was 20,000 shi of grain.

The title is the origin of the surname Situ.

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The words situ and situs are Latin for "site" (or location). They also have other meanings (Situ means "lake" in Sundanese).

Situ or situs may refer to:

Usage examples of "situ".

The purpose was to show definitively that eoliths were to be found not only on the surface but in situ, deep within the Pliocene pre-glacial gravels.

We reached the summit in forty minutes, and the seaward slope beyond it was a large outcrop of quartz in situ, that assumed the strangest appearance,--a dull, dead chalky-white, looking as if heat-altered or mixed with clay.

Here we at once found, and found in situ for the first time, the chalcedony which strews the seaboard-flat.

Bellucci, discovered in situ a flint bearing incontestable signs of intentional work.

If I weigh all the evidence, quite apart from the fact that I actually dug them out of the bed, it is my strong belief that they were in situ when found.

Why not, especially if, as certified by a commission of geologists, implements were found in situ in beds of Pliocene antiquity?

Photographs were taken of the ball in situ, the barranca, and the persons present, and then the bola stone was extracted.

Lehmann-Nitsche has said that according to his opinion the stone balls we extracted were found in situ, are contemporary with the Chapadmalalan terrain, and were not introduced at any later time.

For example, most of the Homo erectus discoveries reported by von Koenigswald in Java were made by native diggers, who, unlike Parodi, did not leave the fossils in situ but sent them in crates to von Koenigswald, who often stayed in places far from the sites.

Worse, the bifacial tools that were found in situ are thought by most to be a sign of H.

Dubois were found in situ, and thus there is at least some basis for saying they are perhaps as old as the early Middle Pleistocene Trinil beds of the Kabuh formation.

Even if we grant that every other bone connected with Piltdown is a forgery, if the skull was found in situ, we are confronted with what could be one more case of Homo sapiens sapiens remains from the late Middle Pleistocene or early Late Pleistocene.

The purpose was to show definitively that eoliths were to be found not only on the surface but in situ, deep within the Pliocene preglacial gravels.

Koenigswald in Java were made by native diggers, who, unlike Parodi, did not leave the fossils in situ but sent them in crates to von Koenigswald, who often stayed in places far from the sites.

Spach, in an extensive gynecologic work published in 1557, figures a lithopedion drawn in situ in the case of a woman with her belly laid open.