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Seven - Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on the Use Life of Northwest Alaskan Pottery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2018

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Shelby L. Anderson
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Peter Jordan  and
Kevin Gibbs
Peter Jordan
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Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands
Kevin Gibbs
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley
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Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine
 , pp. 128 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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