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Fluted Points and Geochronology of the Lake Michigan Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George I. Quimby*
Affiliation:
Chicago Natural History Museum Chicago 5, III.

Extract

Fluted projectile points of chipped flint have been found occasionally in Michigan and Wisconsin. Most, if not all of these, closely resemble the Clovis style of fluted point found in the west. There is some evidence indicating that the western Clovis points belong to a period older than 8000 B.C. A number of archaeologists, myself included, have assumed that the eastern varieties of fluted points are of approximately the same order of antiquity as the western points.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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