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Recent Data Bearing on the Question of the Origins of the Bow and Arrow in the Great Basin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gary S. Webster
Gary S. Webster*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
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Abstract

The origin and dating of the bow and arrow in the Great Basin has been a key issue in a recent debate concerning a cultural hiatus between Archaic and Fremont. New stratigraphic and chronometric data from Dry Creek Rockshelter are presented to support previous evidence for an Archaic rather than a Fremont origin for this new weapon.

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American Antiquity , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 1980 , pp. 63 - 66
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1980

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