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The Barnes Site: A Fluted Point Assemblagefrom the Great Lakes Region

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Henry T. Wright  and
William B. Roosa
Henry T. Wright
Affiliation:
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
William B. Roosa
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
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Abstract

A collection from a small Late Wisconsin site is described. This assemblage exhibits a distinctive coreworking technique and a distinctive variety of fluted points. It is dated on geological grounds to between 11,000 B.C. and 9000 B.C. at a time when spruce stands were probably becoming established in the area. The contrasts between this assemblage and others described from Northeastern North America suggest a number of hypotheses not testable with the available data.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 6 , October 1966 , pp. 850 - 860
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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