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A Report on Perforated Sherds from Central Nevada with a Tentative Suggestion for Their Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Abstract

The suggestion is made that some of the earthenware vessels perforated by drilled holes and described as colanders may have been used, not as colanders, but as cages to contain small rodents or other captives.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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