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A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

William A. Ritchie*
Affiliation:
New York State Museum, Albany, New York

Extract

Since the scientific recognition of a paleo-Indian occupation of the Southwest and high Plains, beginning with the Folsom discoveries in 1927 (Roberts, 1940), the presence of man in the eastern United States prior to the earliest demonstrated cultures of the Archaic period has been suspected on the evidence of random surface finds of fluted points. Some of these artifacts have typologically been equated with the Clovis Fluted form (Krieger, 1947, pp. 10-13), while the greater number, showing considerable stylistic variability, have provisionally been designated “Ohio Fluted points” (Shetrone, 1936, pp. 240-256; Wormington, 1949, pp. 33-35).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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