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Nine - Ceramic Use by Middle and Late Woodland Foragers of the Maritime Provinces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2018

Peter Jordan
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Kevin Gibbs
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University of California, Berkeley
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Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine
, pp. 168 - 192
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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