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Early Man and Changing Sea Levels, Poplar Island, Maryland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ralph S. Solecki
Ralph S. Solecki*
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Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
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Abstract

The presence of a fluted point on an island in Chesapeake Bay is explained in terms of a lowered sea level during the time of the Early Man occupation of the area. This study is offered as an example of the value of the use of eustatic oscillations in the study of early prehistoric remains in maritime regions.

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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 2 , October 1961 , pp. 234 - 236
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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