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More on Wood Hardening by Fire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Oren F. Evans
Oren F. Evans*
Affiliation:
University of Oklahoma Norman, Okla.
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On page 179 of American Antiquity for October 1956, Aaron J. Cosner describes some experiments on the fire hardening of wood. Perhaps, in this connection, the following experience may be of interest.

During my boyhood in Michigan, corn was harvested entirely by hand. In the process we always used a husking peg to remove the husks from the ears.

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American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 3 , January 1958 , pp. 312
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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