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The quality or state of being a keel like part or ridge, esp. a ridge of bone on the ventral side of the sternum of birds.

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  • These include soot-covered cooking pots of simple form, but also fragments of highly polished vessels with a sharp carination at mid body.
  • The mottled brown polished pottery with the carination, or sharp angled turn of the body, indicates an early Naqada I or possibly Badarian (4000 B.C.) occupation of the...
  • Although he makes the point that the periphery is "hardly to be called keeled", to me "carinated", "angular" and "keeled" all mean more or less the same thing, especially when...
  • The third site, Massingir 4/75, only 35 km upstream from the others, contained what author Ricardo Duarte described as "an essentially different pottery," 23 including globular...
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