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The usual cooking pots were of cemented or sewn lime-stone slabs, caulked with a mixture of soot, hare hair and blood; sometimes they were made of this cement alone, kneaded well together and baked to a stone-hard mass; these cooking pots were oval and up to 30 or 40 cm long.[1]

  1. ↑ Possibly this is the last memory of pottery in these regions.
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