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Author(s): William Joseph Litzinger
Source: Kiva, Vol. 44, No. 2/3, First Annual Conference on Ethnobiology in Honor of
Lyndon L. Hargrave (Winter - Spring, 1979), pp. 145-158
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THE KIVA, Vol. 44, No. 2-3, 1979
INTRODUCTION
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Prehistoric Use of Datura 147
ETHNOGRAPHIC CONSIDERATIONS
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148 LITZINGER
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150 LITZINGER
ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
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Prehistoric Use of Datura 151
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152 LITZINGER
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Figure 3. Most common forms of spiked ceramic vessels in Mexico and the
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154 LITZINGER
CONCLUSION
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Prehistoric Use of Datura 155
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Research for this study was carried out at the Mueso National de Mexico;
Mueso Frissell de Arte Zapoteca, Mitla, Oaxaca, Mexico; the Mesa Verde Research
Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado; the Center for Southwestern Studies at Fort
College, Durango, Colorado; and with the private collection of Mr. and Mrs. John
Pleasant View, Colorado. A number of private collections were also viewed in Me
Botanical material was studied at the following international herbaria: MEXU (Her
Nacional del Instituto de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Mexico, and RM (Ro
Mountain Herbarium, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming).
I am greatly indebted to the following individuals' helpful criticism, without w
this paper would never have been completed: Robert A. Bye, Joseph A. Hester,
Ingmanson, Dale T. Leslie, Mr. and Mrs. John Pock, Dori Partsch, and Nancy J. Sim
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