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"Dan S. Allen" <[log in to unmask]>
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HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 31 Aug 2001 10:43:52 +0000
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No:)

The visitors were probably leaving surface offerings of
cut flowers and food(ceramics,food jars and bottles),
and personal products that the deceased had used in life
and would appreciate in the afterlife:)

Dan Allen
> In a message dated 8/30/01 3:15:45 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> << ceramic vessels, hair tonic bottles, pomade and cold
>  cream jars, medicine jars and bottles, syringes, insulin
>  bottles, and a wide variety of food jars and bottles. >>
>
> So, the visitors to the cemetery left flower vases, combed and pomaded their
> hair, treated cracked lips, shot up insulin and had picnics at the cemetery?

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