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Microblades at Poverty Point Sites*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

William G. Haag  and
Clarence H. Webb
William G. Haag
Affiliation:
School of Geology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Clarence H. Webb
Affiliation:
1560 Line Avenue, Shreveport, Louisiana
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Until the past few years the Poverty Point horizon was known solely through its manifestation at the type site, Poverty Point Plantation, on Bayou Macon, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. Webb (1944), in connection with the description of a cache of stone vessel fragments found near the large Poverty Point mound, pointed out the apparent cultural content of the site, which had previously been mentioned in archaeological literature by Moore (1913), Fowke (1928) and Ford (1936). In 1948, in a description of nonpottery cultures in the state, a further attempt was made (Webb, 1948) to clarify the Poverty Point cultural period as expressed at this site.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , January 1953 , pp. 245 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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Footnotes

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Read at the 17th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Anthropology, Columbus, Ohio, May 2, 1952.

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