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Jonathan Batkin once pointed out what should have been obvious had one taken the time to think about history.  There was no need for large dough bowls or for the outdoor ovens called horno prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.  The reason being that the Spaniards brought flour to the pueblos from which they made oven bread-thus the need for the bowl and for the oven.

Even though the Spaniards came in the late 1500s, it was close to the mid-1700s before the pueblo people accepted the white flour from the Spaniards.  Maybe it took 150 years for the pueblos to accept the change, but gradually they did.  Dough bowls seemed to appear at Zia Pueblo in the late 1700s.

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