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A Barbed Antler Point Found at Pyramid Lake, Nevada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Doris L. Rendall
Doris L. Rendall*
Affiliation:
Nevada State Museum, Carson City, Nevada
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Abstract

A barbed projectile point of antler found at Pyramid Lake, Nevada, is an unusual archaeological specimen for the Great Basin. The point is thought to have been hafted for use as a fish or bird spear and is possibly Eskimo in design.

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American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 5Part1 , July 1966 , pp. 740 - 742
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1966

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