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Turrialba: A Paleo-Indian Quarry and Workshop Site in Eastern Costa Rica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael J. Snarskis
Michael J. Snarskis*
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, Apartado 749, San Jose, Costa flica
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Abstract

Turrialba, a multicomponent quarry and manufacturing site in eastern Costa Rica, has yielded in surface collections 18 fluted points, fragments, and preforms. Both North and South American paleo-Indian point types are represented. Also present are keeled scrapers, end scrapers with lateral spurs, large flake side scrapers, burins, knives, and large blades. Turrialba is as yet undated, but future excavations at the site will be crucial in understanding the diffusion and development of the fluted point tradition in the Americas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 44 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 125 - 138
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1979

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