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Comments on Binford's “Smudge Pits and Hide Smoking: The Use of Analogy in Archaeological Reasoning”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Patrick J. Munson
Patrick J. Munson*
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University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois
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Abstract

Binford's specific postulate that archaeological corncobfilled “smudge pits” of the eastern United States were utilized for smoking hides is challenged as being too narrow, and an additional function is postulated, namely, that they were also used in some areas for smudging the interiors of ceramic vessels. Additional references to their archaeological occurrence are also presented, and it is argued that all of these features postdate A.D. 1000.

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American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1969 , pp. 83 - 85
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1969

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