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Lafitau's Hoes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

William C. Sturtevant
William C. Sturtevant*
Affiliation:
Office of Anthropology, Smithsonian Institution
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Abstract

Lafitau's 1724 engraving of Huron agriculture, previously taken as evidence for triangular stone hoes in the Northeast, actually is a copy of de Bry"s engraving of Timucua agriculture, and the hoes shown are a European type.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , January 1968 , pp. 93 - 95
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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