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Is It Really That Old? A Comment about the Meadowcroft Rockshelter “Overview”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jim I. Mead
Jim I. Mead*
Affiliation:
Department of Geosciences, Laboratory of Paleoenvironmental Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721
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Abstract

There is an apparent discrepancy in the reported data from Meadowcroft Rockshelter. Radiocarbon dates from Stratum IIa appear to indicate a Wisconsinan full-glacial occupation by man in the shelter. The recovered fauna and flora are discordant with other local Wisconsinan-age fossils.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 1980 , pp. 579 - 582
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980 

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