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Spurred End Scrapers as Diagnostic Paleoindian Artifacts: A Distributional Analysis on Stream Terraces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Richard A. Rogers
Richard A. Rogers*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045
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Abstract

Analysis of archaeological sites on a stream terrace system in Kansas supports the idea that spurred end scrapers are valid diagnostic Paleoindian artifacts. No sites with spurred end scrapers were discovered on the Holocene terraces, while the Wisconsin terraces did yield such sites. The differential distribution of spurred end scraper sites on terraces appears to be statistically significant. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that spurred end scrapers were not found on the Holocene terraces because they were not being used when the Holocene terraces formed.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 338 - 341
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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