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An Eighteenth Century Reference to a Fluted Point from Guatemala

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Warwick Bray*
Affiliation:
University of London, Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC 1H OPY, England

Abstract

The earliest literary reference to a fluted point occurs in a work written in 1722 by Francisco Ximenez. This specimen and others from Guatemala are discussed in the light of recent discoveries from neighboring areas.

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Reports
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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