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Preliminary Report on a Buried Yuma Site in Wyoming

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Edgar B. Howard ,
Linton Satterthwaite Jr.  and
Charles Bache
Edgar B. Howard
Affiliation:
University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Linton Satterthwaite Jr.
Affiliation:
University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Charles Bache
Affiliation:
University Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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A new and interesting archaeological site was discovered in the Wyoming Basin, just west of the Continental Divide, by Mr. O. M. Finley of Eden, Wyoming, in 1940. It represents a Yuma camp site associated with bison bones.

In the spring of 1940, Mr. Finley discovered seven stone points or fragments on the surface among sand dunes, ahout four miles southeast of Eden. They were concentrated in an area about five by twenty meters at the base of a dune, and the presence of decalcified bone led Mr. Finley to the conclusion that they had weathered out of a Yuma site nearby. A slight amount of excavation produced additional points, in place, along with decalcified bison bone fragments. A Folsom point with the tip gone had been picked up by Mr. Finley in a blow-out about six hundred and fifty meters to the north, which added interest to the site.

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American Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , July 1941 , pp. 70 - 74
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1941

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