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Of Shoe-Form Vessels and Ethnographic Analogy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Edward B. Sisson
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Abstract

D. M. Varner does not make a good case for a continuity in the function of the shoe-form vessels from Oaxaca. In the neighboring Tehuacan Valley during the Late Postclassic and Early Colonial periods, shoe-form vessels served as receptacles for cremated human remains.

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American Antiquity , Volume 40 , Issue 4 , October 1975 , pp. 475 - 476
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1975

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