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Soils, plants and animals in the making of hunter-gatherer pottery in coastal Alaska (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ana Jorge. James Conolly. Rick Knecht.

Explorations of human-environmental interactions in prehistoric Alaska tend to draw on biological, botanical and faunal data. Artefacts have often received much less attention beyond links to subsistence concerns and the gathering of additional paleoenvironmental information (e.g. wood and grass species). Pottery, in particular, has featured in such discussions only in regards to the processing of foodstuffs: both its suitability for particular cooking methods and the substances it may have...