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Word: mortarless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1955-1955
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...name of M'lefaat, the diggers found relatively recent remains in the upper layers of dirt. Farther down they found something entirely different: filled-in pit houses rather like those that American Indians were building about the time of Columbus. Some of the houses had circular walls of mortarless stone and floors covered with hardpacked pebbles. Inside were crude hearths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Earliest Village? | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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