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Ten - Prestige Foods and the Adoption of Pottery by Subarctic Foragers

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. 193 - 215
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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