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Chipping Remains as an Indication of Cultural Change at Wetherill Mesa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2018

Douglas Osborne*
Affiliation:
Wetherill Mesa Archeological Project, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

Abstract

The study of a large amount of chipped material from the seven largest sites excavated at Wetherill Mesa has yielded a pattern of change (as shown in graphs) in chipping methods and materials used that correlates well with other aspects of cultural change.

Type
2 Anthropology
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1965 

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