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I may have purchased similar style bowls in Mexico in open markets. The wet
clay is scored with several parallel lines in the interior bottom before
firing. They were (are) called "grater bowls" and supposedly used to grind
chiles or other similar plant materials. I've never use mine, I bought it
for decoration 'cause I like it.
Irv Rovner]
Binary Analytical
>From: Ron May <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Can Opening Question
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 03:39:48 -0500
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>Since we are on the topic of food devices, I have a 1860s Chinese fishing
>camp with fragments of a bowl with scorations in the bottom. Pete Schultz,
>California State Parks, reported an almost identical bowl from Woodland,
>California that he interprets to be a food processor. I am wondering if (1)
>other archaeologists have seen those same things, and (2) if anyone has
>ethnographic information substantiating Pete's interpretation?
>
>Ron May
>Legacy 106, Inc.
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