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The Clovis Site: Regional Physiography and Geology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

W. Armstrong Price
W. Armstrong Price*
Affiliation:
Corpus Christi, Texas
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The geology of the Clovis site cannot be fully understood from examination of the immediate surroundings. While the studies published by the investigators who have been excavating the vertebrate fossils and human artifacts have contributed much to an understanding of the locality, there are important items in the regional physiography and geology which have not heretofore been described in print. The writer has for several years been attempting to complete a manuscript on the Llano Estacado, its cap rock, and similar cap rocks of the world. This study is now essentially completed and the manuscript will, it is hoped, be submitted to a geological periodical in the near future. For the guidance of archaeologists, this short outline of salient features bearing on the Clovis locale is offered in advance of fuller demonstration.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , April 1944 , pp. 401 - 407
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1944

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