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Rouletting — A Misnomer

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Orville H. Peets
Orville H. Peets*
Affiliation:
Indian River Hundred, Delaware
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Abstract

The modern study of the marks of function is tending to correct names that were too easily accepted in the past. Objection is made to the use of the word “rouletting” for the dotted-line decoration on some Indian clay pipes, and it is shown how these dots may be produced with a section of the rim of a clam shell (Venus mercenaria).

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963, pp. 113 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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