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Acorn-eating and ethnographic analogies: a reply to McCorriston

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sarah L. R. Mason
Sarah L. R. Mason*
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Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square, London WC1H OPY, England
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Abstract

Joy McCorriston's paper in the March 1994 ANTIQUITY, on acorn-eating and agricultural origins, used California ethnographies as analogues for the ancient Near East. This reply explores some issues of analogy and explanation that go beyond the important specifics of the matter.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 1025 - 1030
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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