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The 12 Mile Creek Site: A Reinvestigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard A. Rogers  and
Larry D. Martin
Richard A. Rogers
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology, Systematics and Ecology, and The Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
Larry D. Martin
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology, Systematics and Ecology, and The Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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Abstract

The 12 Mile Creek site in western Kansas was the first site yielding a fluted projectile point to be excavated in North America by scientific personnel. The Bison from this kill site were used in forming the original concept of B. occidentalis. A new study of the site including radiocarbon dates and a pollen analysis suggests the kill took place in a pine parkland about 10,300 years ago. The artifact from this site reported by Williston seems to be a Clovis projectile point.

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American Antiquity , Volume 49 , Issue 4 , October 1984 , pp. 757 - 764
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1984

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