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Man and Water at Pleistocene Lake Mohave

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Emma Lou Davis
Emma Lou Davis*
Affiliation:
San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, California
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Abstract

Also, Heizer questions the existence of a period of climate moister than that of today at the time when makers of the Lake Mohave lithic complex camped about high shorelines.

The following article attempts to do two things:

(1) Distinguish descriptively between sand-wear and wave-wear so that other archaeologists can use these criteria.

(2) Show that a widespread cultural co-tradition existed in the Inter-Montane West about 7000 B.C. during a period of moister climate. Artifact inventories are submitted. This co-tradition was characterized by sparsity or lack of stone-on-stone milling, by a number of unique implements, and by a practice of frequenting the shores of now-dry water sources. This widely distributed orientation toward fossil water implies a generally wetter climate at that time.

This co-tradition was characterized by sparsity or lack of stone-on-stone milling, by a number of unique implements, and by a practice of frequenting the shores of now-dry water sources. This widely distributed orientation toward fossil water implies a generally wetter climate at that time.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , July 1967 , pp. 345 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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