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Potential Interpretations of “Stone Gorget” Function

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Cailup B. Curren Jr.
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Abstract

Polished “stone gorgets” may have had the same function as contemporary ceramic tools.

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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 1 , January 1977 , pp. 97 - 101
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1977

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