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The Sims Site: Implication for Paleoindian Occupation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Abstract

A collection of lithic material from a site in the lower Tennessee River valley contains Paleoindian projectile points, uniface, and biface tools. Since few projectile points of Archaic types are included, there are implications that the rather extensive biface industry is of Late Paleoindian origin, contrary to the accepted idea that biface industries occur extensively only in post-Paleoindian occupations.

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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1976

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