Making an Impression: How Fingerprints Can Identify Ancient Potters
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Endnotes
1. See John Kantner et al., “Reconstructing Sexual Divisions of Labor from Fingerprints on Ancestral Puebloan Pottery,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (2019), pp. 12220–12225; Kent Fowler et al., “The Identity of Potters in Early States: Determining the Age and Sex of Fingerprints on Early Bronze Age Pottery from Tell â/Gath, Israel,” Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory 26 (2019), pp. 1470–1512; Fowler et al., “Fingerprint Evidence for the Division of Labour and Learning Pottery-Making at Early Bronze Age Tell eṣ-Ṣâfi/Gath, Israel,” PLOS ONE 15 (2020), e0231046.