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Science 10 March 1972:
Vol. 175. no. 4026, pp. 1106 - 1108
DOI: 10.1126/science.175.4026.1106
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Preceramic Sequences in the El Abra Rock-Shelters, Colombia

Wesley R. Hurt 1, Thomas van der Hammen 2, and Gonzalo Correal Urrego 3

1 Indiana University Museum, Bloomington 47401
2 Hugo de Vries-Laboratorium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Amsterdam 4, Netherlands
3 Instituto Colombiano de Antropologia, Apartado Nacional 407, Bogotá, Colombia

A series of crude stone artifacts, characterized by a trimming mainly of the working edge of a single face of a chert flake or a fragment of a nodule, was excavated in the El Abra rock-shelters, north of Bogotá, Colombia. The tools indicate a cultural complex distinct from others that have been described for the Paleo-Indian of South America.

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