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Notes on the Supposed Association of Artifacts and Extinct Vertebrates in Flagler County, Florida

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Wilfred T. Neill
Wilfred T. Neill*
Affiliation:
Ross Allen Reptile Institute Silver Springs, Florida
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J. H. Connery (1932, p. 516) reported a supposed association of artifacts and extinct vertebrates at the Bon Terra Farm, in Flagler County, Florida. It was stated that an arrowhead was found beneath the jawbone of a mammoth elephant. The arrowhead was not described or illustrated. E. B. Howard (1940, p. 309), who tested the site, thought the association questionable, but did not elaborate on his reasons for so thinking. Recently, through the cooperation of Connery, I reexamined the Bon Terra site (Fl 5) and the material found there. A drawing of the arrowhead was made, the outline being traced and the chipping indicated by freehand sketch. The artifact is small, thin, and flat; it was ovate before notching. The diagonal notches resulted in a barbed projectile point with a wide tang. The edges bear fine pressure retouching. The tip had once been broken and the artifact then reworked into what would usually be called a stemmed scraper. This type of point is unlike anything attributed to the paleo-Indian, and has not been reported from the Archaic of Florida.

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American Antiquity , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , October 1953 , pp. 170 - 171
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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