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Art/Literary - Archaeology / Animal experimentation/Statistics
Region (source): | | Spanish term or phrase: la asociación cuchillo-punzón | | En esta etapa reciente hay una gradación de ajuares del grupo dominante, con un segmento destacado y poseedor de espadas (hombres) o diademas (mujeres), y un segundo orden donde hachas-azuelas acompañan a hombres y la asociación cuchillo-punzón a mujeres. |
|  Huw WatkinsKudoZ activityQuestions: 177 (none open) ( 1 closed without grading) Answers: 86
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| | the knife and the awl (see full rendition) | Explanation:
This is my take. It's easier if all the tools are in the singular:
"...a second order in which each sex is associated with a pair of tools: men [are entrusted with]*, the axe and the adze; women, the knife and the awl."
*The sense of it will depend on the verb you use here. |
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12 hrs confidence: | la asociación cuchillo-punzón the knife and the awl (see full rendition)
Explanation:
This is my take. It's easier if all the tools are in the singular:
"...a second order in which each sex is associated with a pair of tools: men [are entrusted with]*, the axe and the adze; women, the knife and the awl."
*The sense of it will depend on the verb you use here.
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