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Owens Valley Brown Ware

Although the making of pottery by Great Basin hunters and gatherers has been recognized for over a century, it has not been generally considered an important attribute in either their cultural adaptations or characteristics. While the aboriginal people in the Great Basin are often used to demonstrate a hunting and gathering life-style, they are seldom used as an example of pottery making by nonagriculturalists.
The existence of pottery making among certain aboriginal hunting and gathering groups of the Great basin was known as early as the middle of the 19th century, but as Baldwin and Coale outlined, little attention was given to this crude pottery by these early explorers or the ethnographers who followed them. As, a result, we have only a vague notion of what this pottery was like, how it was made, and the role it played in aboriginal Great Basin cultures.
For over a thousand years the Paiute and Shoshone people have been making ceramic vessels for......

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