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St. Marys Cordmarked Pottery (Formerly Savannah Fine Cord Marked of Northeastern Florida and Southeastern Georgia): A Type Description

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... In this sense, the invention of pottery within multiple and unrelated focuses (East Asia, the African Sahara, and the American continent, for example) is particularly significant, as well as it is suggestive of the use of similar decorative techniques by unrelated human groups. An illustrative case is represented by the cord-marked pottery, resulting from the use of roulettes made of wrapped cord to make impressed decorations in the early Holocene ceramics of Japan or central Sahara (Haour et al., 2010;Hurley, 1979), or the more recent pottery of different pre-contact cultures in North America (Ashley & Rolland, 2002). ...
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