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Preceramic Archaic Sites in the Highlands of Honduras

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ripley P. Bullen
Affiliation:
Florida State Museum, Gainesville, Florida
William W. Plowden Jr.
Affiliation:
San Pedro Sula, Republic of Honduras

Abstract

Recent work in the mountains of Honduras has disclosed four ceramic and ten preceramic sites all between altitudes of 5000 and 6500 feet. Fluted stemmed points, medium-sized scrapers, and very small side scrapers link the preceramic sites to late Paleo-Indian or early Archaic times. Stonework from the ceramic sites is typologically different. Migration routes at these altitudes are suggested.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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