The Nature and Origin of Group-Marriage

in the absence of specimens, but the shape of the urns is what we should describe, were they found in England, as of the British period; the author, however, distinctly stated that the paste, with one exception, was fine, and coated with plumbago, which is unlike British or Celtic pottery.His descriptions suggested a resemblance to the smother-kiln pottery of Upchurch, which is black, and has a metallic appearance.Then, again, in one of the urns, an iron nail was found; when excavating in the Romano-British cemetery at Seaford, Sussex, several nails were met with-in fact, in every interment; so taking this with the description of the pottery, and the fact of a coin of Antoninus being found, the speaker would infer that these circlcs, or at any rate the pottery, was of the Gallo-Romano date, corresponding with our Romano-British period, of probably the third century.One of the urns had a decided Etruscan appearance, and was much like those from Cyprus, both as to the shape and ornamentation

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• The Origin of Kinship in Oceania

  Open Access•Helen Gardner•Oceania•2008

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