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Anthropology

PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. My thought is that humans have always

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Sat Dec 30, 2017, 01:51 AM

Dec 2017

valued their children and given them as much as they could. I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that this doll was that child's favorite toy. I can easily imagine burying such a thing with my child.

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