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The “Simple Bone Point” of the Shell-Heaps of the Northeastern Algonkian Area and Its Probable Significance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

E. E. Tyzzer
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In the study of a material culture, it appears that the rarer, more striking or more elaborate objects are often given undue weight while the more common and hence more widely used articles are too frequently neglected. Although the bone point of the type to be considered is by far the most common artifact found in the shell-heaps of Maine and Nova Scotia, only casual and incomplete descriptions are available. There is no general recognition of it as a distinct type, and the interpretations of its usage which are offered are made without serious consideration of available evidence.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , April 1936 , pp. 261 - 279
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1936

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96 Not only was permission kindly granted for the excavation of this site by Mr. Herbert F. Carter, but arrangements were afforded to facilitate the work in every possible way.

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110 The following articles clearly attributable to European contact were also found at one border of the deposit: 3 gunflints, 2 steel arrow or lance heads, 3 glass beads, a few fragments of thick glass evidently from broken bottles, and pieces of clay pipes.

111 This type of pipe is not regarded as a product of the region but is believed to have been introduced through intertribal commerce.

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