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Thickness and Fluting of Paleo-Indian Projectile Points

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James E. Fitting
James E. Fitting*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract

A statistical examination of Paleo-Indian projectile points and bases from the Holcombe (Michigan) and Scharbauer (Texas) sites shows that basal modification, thinning to fluting, is distributed throughout the range of thickness. It is possible that fluted points were considerably thicker before fluting, but this is untestable and, since the present populations have a normal distribution, seems unlikely.

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Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 105 - 106
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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