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Science 16 June 1978:
Vol. 200. no. 4347, pp. 1272 - 1275
DOI: 10.1126/science.200.4347.1272
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Flake Tools Stratified Below Paleo-Indian Artifacts

MICHAEL J. REAGAN 1, RALPH M. ROWLETT 2, ERVAN G. GARRISON 2, WAKEFIELD DORT JR. 3, VAUGHN M. BRYANT JR. 4, and CHRIS J. JOHANNSEN 5

1 American Archaeology Division and Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia 65201
2 Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri
3 Department of Geology, University of Kansas, Lawrence 66045
4 Anthropology Research Laboratory, Texas A and M University, College Station 77843
5 Department of Agronomy, University of Missouri

In northwest Missouri, Lithic stage flake tools struck from prepared cores have been excavated underlying a Paleo-Indian fluted point assemblage. These assemblages were in two different loesses of the last glaciation. Thermoluminescent analysis of stone tools dates the Paleo-Indian occupations at 8690 ± 1000 B.C. and 12,855 ± 1500 B.C.; the Lithic stage occupations must be older than 13,000 B.C. on the basis of geologic correlation, lithic analysis, and cultural stratigraphy.

Submitted on November 30, 1977


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
The Ginsberg Experiment: Modern and Prehistoric Evidence of a Bone-Flaking Technology.
D. Stanford, D. STANFORD, R. BONNICHSEN, and R. E. MORLAN (1981)
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