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of mutilation occurs. The complicated skills of jewelry and gold 

 working, ceremonial stonework, and permanent structures are absent; 

 this more from economic position than artistic development, since 

 realistic clay sculpture is present. The identifying traits are: (1) 

 urn burial; (2) incised relief brown ware with zoomorphic patterns; 

 (3) certain red and brown ware combinations with shell, reed and 

 punch markings; (4) elaborate ceremonial or votive ware; (5) incised 

 spindle whorls ; and (6) simple flake points without secondary elabora- 

 tion except crude tang formation and ground and polished stone 

 celts in a variety of patterns. 



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