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Additional Evidence for Gourd Floats on Fishing Nets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jean L. Hudson
Jean L. Hudson*
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Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201 (jhudson@uwm.edu)
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Abstract

The utility of gourds as fishnet floats was recently supported by experimental evidence (Hart et al. 2004). Additional lines of evidence are provided by archaeological and ethnographic work in Peru.

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Fue establecido recientemente por la investigación experimental de Hart, Daniels, and Sheviak (2004) que las calabazas pueden servir bien como flotadores para las redes de pesca. Algunas lineas adicionales de la evidencia se pueden encontrar en el arqueología y el etnografía de Perú.

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American Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 3 , July 2004 , pp. 586 - 587
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 2004

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