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Comment on the Paleoindian Occurrence of Spurred End Scrapers as Reported by Rogers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Elizabeth Ann Morris  and
Richard C. Blakeslee
Elizabeth Ann Morris
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Richard C. Blakeslee
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523
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Abstract

A recent article by Rogers (1986) hypothesized that spurred end scrapers were a temporally diagnostic artifact indicating Paleoindian occupation in Kansas. Examination of the distribution of this artifact in northeastern Colorado indicates that, besides being a part of Paleoindian assemblages, it also occurs in Middle Archaic (McKean complex) and Dismal River contexts.

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American Antiquity , Volume 52 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 830 - 831
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1987

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