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DOCUMENT Citation Only Gabriel Ramon.

Swallows are a type of potter that travels seasonally to places away from their “home base” to practice their craft. For more than a century, and, in several parts of the world, ethnographers have documented this phenomenon, however, archaeologists have only addressed it tangentially. Yet swallows are important for archaeologists to consider, since they demonstrate that cultural interaction is not always limited to the distribution of pottery, but can also be important during the manufacturing...