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Ridge-Back Tools of the Colorado Desert

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

W. Morlin Childers
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Abstract

Knapping experiments and examination of flaked stone objects distributed throughout portions of southwestern Imperial Valley and northern Baja California indicate that criteria other than presence or absence of percussion bulbs can be used to support the artifactual nature of certain fractured stones.

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Reports
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American Antiquity , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 1977 , pp. 242 - 248
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1977

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