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A Flint Ballast Station in New Rochelle, New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

F. Peter Rose
F. Peter Rose*
Affiliation:
New York City, New York
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Abstract

The possibility of mistaking natural fractured flint stones for artifacts has always been problematic to researchers in the Old World and the New World. This problem increases ten-fold when artifact-like assemblages are collected from heaps of nonindigenous stone which was brought to the New World as ballast. Such a ballast station consisting of flint from the Thames in England and deposited in New Rochelle, New York, is described, and its ramifications are discussed.

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Facts and Comments
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American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1968 , pp. 240 - 243
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1968

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