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Some Characteristics of Mongolian-Type Lames*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Ferdinand E. Okada
Ferdinand E. Okada*
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Columbia University, New York 27, New York
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Recent reports on Alaska by Solecki and by Giddings. have mentioned the presence there of Mongolian-type lames and cores already noted some twelve years earlier by Nelson and by Rainey. In this connection, it may not be out of place to summarize the findings of Hitoshi Watanabe, a Japanese archaeologist, on the characteristics that distinguish a lame from an ordinary flake. Although the primary purpose of his research was to clarify some misconceptions created in Japanese archaeology by somewhat indiscriminate application of the term lames to relatively long and narrow flakes, found in both the main island of Honshu and the northernmost island of Hokkaido, much of the data is relevant to Alaskan archaeology.

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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , January 1951 , pp. 254
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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Footnotes

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Received just in time for this issue, Mr. Okada's paper comprises a useful footnote to Giddings article on pp. 193 ff.

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