Ah Bunny,
Date and function need to be considered together.  One is no more  important
than the other.


In a message dated 11/10/2004 7:52:37 AM AUS Eastern Daylight Time,
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Bill et  al:  All this is fine.  But the most important thing about  bottles
concerns their former contents -- both in terms of quantitity and  quality --
and to what uses they were put.  It's that, rather than the  dating and
formal characteristics, that gets us to the subject of Homo  sapiens, which
was, I thought, what this exercise is supposed to be  about.
Bunny