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Early Point Types from Acasta Lake, Northwest Territories, Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard G. Forbis
Richard G. Forbis*
Affiliation:
Glenbow Foundation, Calgary, Alberta
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Abstract

A small collection of stone artifacts from an esker-ridge site at the edge of the Barren Lands, which includes an Agate Basin point and two Lerma points, but apparently no microblades, may be the earliest so far recognized in the Canadian tundra.

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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , July 1961 , pp. 112 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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