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The Occurrence and Significance of Southwestern Grooved Axes in California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert F. Heizer
Robert F. Heizer*
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University of California, Los Angeles, California
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To the archaeologist whose primary field of endeavor is California, the grooved stone ax is a relatively unfamiliar object, since it occurs but rarely either in the course of excavation or in the perusal of the literature. That the grooved ax occurs at all in this region is significant, chiefly for the reason that in western North America it is a form highly characteristic of, and, with few exceptions, restricted to the Southwestern culture province proper. Since southern California is generally considered a western peripheral extension of the Southwestern culture area, it is not surprising occasionally to encounter the grooved ax here. It is interesting to note that this implement also occurs far to the northward in central and northeastern California, a region commonly thought to be beyond the zone of direct influence by or immediate contact with the Southwest proper. Presumably the grooved ax in central and northern California represents an extreme northwesterly extension from its native locale, which we assume to be the Southwest.

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American Antiquity , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , January 1946 , pp. 187 - 193
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1946 

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