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Artifact Clusters

Artifact clusters Artifact clusters are another kind of feature. They are often piles of pottery, stone, bone, or other material that was dumped and has stayed as a single pile of debris. For example, they might represent a single flintknapping event, a pot that broke and was discarded, or a pile of bones from dinner.

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