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A Report on Perforated Sherds from Central Nevada with a Tentative Suggestion for Their Use

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Molly Magee
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Abstract

The suggestion is made that some of the earthenware vessels perforated by drilled holes and described as colanders may have been used, not as colanders, but as cages to contain small rodents or other captives.

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Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 226 - 227
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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