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Pot polish is evidence that bones have been boiled in a ceramic pot.Bones that have been cooked in a clay pot show a faint beveling and polishing at the tips from scraping against the coarse interior of the pot. Many ofthese bones have been broken to the same size as animal bones -- just theright size to fit into the typical Anasazi cooking pot.

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