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The Southern California Milling Stone Horizon: Some Comments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Claude N. Warren
Claude N. Warren*
Affiliation:
Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
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Abstract

Owen’s (1964) brief comments on the Glen Annie Canyon site include some comments and criticisms that are in error, and the validity of his interpretation of the archaeology and archaeologists of the Southern California Coast may be challenged. Owen uses the term “Early horizon” where he should use “Milling Stone horizon”; his criticisms of Wallace’s 1955 paper are unjustified; what he claims to be the archaeologists’ description of the Oak Grove culture is inaccurate. His argument for a nomadic population during the Milling Stone horizon is based on a weak analogy, and his notion that the interpretation of a “more or less sedentary” settlement pattern for the Milling Stone horizon is a “convenient fiction agreed upon by some southern California archaeologists to facilitate the construction of artifact typologies” is in error. Data are presented to support the interpretation that the population of the Milling Stone horizon was a Central-Based Wandering people.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1967 , pp. 233 - 236
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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