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Science 12 April 1968:
Vol. 160. no. 3824, pp. 184 - 186
DOI: 10.1126/science.160.3824.184
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Mummy Cave: Prehistoric Record from Rocky Mountains of Wyoming

Waldo R. Wedel 1, Wilfred M. Husted 2, and John H. Moss 3

1 Smithsonian Office of Anthropology, Washington, D. C.
2 River Basin Surveys Smithsonian Institution, Lincoln, Nebraska
3 Department of Geology, Franklin, and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Archeological materials from 8.5 meters of deposits in a stratified rock shelter in the Absaroka Mountains near Yellowstone National Park provide a projectile point sequence and cultutral record beginning more than 9000 years ago, and include evidence of human occupation durnig the Altithermal period.

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