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Traditional Basketry Materials

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—Basketry Technology: A guide to Identification and Analysis Chicago: Aldine. 1977.

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A Paleo Prescription

Notes:

1

Brian M. Fagan, The Journey from Eden: The Peopling of Our World, (London: Thames and Hudson, Ltd., 1990): 76.

2

Fagan: 61.

3

Fagan: 42-43.

4

Boyd Eaton and Marjorie Shostak, “Fat Tooth Blues,” Natural History (July 1986): 6-13.

5

Melvin Konner, “What Our Ancestors Ate,” New York Times Magazine (5 June 1988): 54-55.

6

Francine Hermline, “The Food-Stress Link,” Working Woman (May 1993): 92.

7

Arlene Stadd, “Why We Crave,” Weight Watcher’s Magazine (November 1992): 54-56.

8

Reuben, The Save Your Life Diet, (New York: Random House, 1975): 4-10.

9

“The Search for Our Ancestors,” Kenneth Weaver, ed., National Geographic (November 1985): 623.

An Introduction to the Atlatl

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The Paiute Deadfall

Notes:

1

John McPherson, Making Meat: II, (Randolph, Kansas: McPherson, 1988): 21-22.

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