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Word: glazes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which the diggers could find no obvious use. The peasants thereabout still living in a partly Stone Age condition solved the difficulties by exhibiting some of their own utensils of husbandry-flint-pronged threshing boards, wooden water jars, grain cradles, grinding stones. The relics, some of them beautiful in glaze and form, with an estimated age of 4,000 years, point to an ample trade with Egypt. They go automatically into the possession of the Turkish Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

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