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Ancient Grooved Clubs and Modern Rabbit-Sticks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert F. Heizer
Robert F. Heizer*
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University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
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The problem of the functional identification of the distinctive grooved wooden clubs from the early archaeological horizons of the Southwest, and of their possible connection with the modern rabbitsticks of certain Southwestern and southern Californian tribes has never been set forth in proper form. Similarity in form does not necessarily signify identity in function. Nowhere should this caution be followed more closely than in the allocation of use by the archaeologist to archaeological specimens. Thus, a disagreement on the identification of a highly specialized form of implement suggests that we may perhaps profitably inquire into the problems presented by the difference in opinion.

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American Antiquity , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , July 1942 , pp. 41 - 56
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1942

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