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Fluted Point Measurements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald J. Mason*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich.

Extract

Paradoxically, in presenting fluted point measurements and proportions the percentage or ratio relationship of maximum (or minimum or average) fluting to total blade length is not completely a matter of mathematics. This seems to have escaped the notice of many students of the paleo-Indian flint industries. The problem involved has come to the attention of the writer in the course of studying several series of northeastern and Great Lakes area fluted points, with the result that he has been as frequently bewildered as enlightened in attempting to compare his data with those obtained by other archaeologists.

Type
Facts and Comments
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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References

Witthoft, John 1952 A Paleo-Indian Site in Eastern Pennsylvania: An Early Hunting Culture. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 96, No. 4, pp. 464–95. Lancaster.Google Scholar