Note to users. If you're seeing this message, it means that your browser cannot find this page's style/presentation instructions -- or possibly that you are using a browser that does not support current Web standards. Find out more about why this message is appearing, and what you can do to make your experience of our site the best it can be.

Science 24 April 1981:
Vol. 212. no. 4493, pp. 438 - 440
DOI: 10.1126/science.212.4493.438
Prev | Table of Contents | Next

Articles

The Ginsberg Experiment: Modern and Prehistoric Evidence of a Bone-Flaking Technology

DENNIS STANFORD 1, ROBSON BONNICHSEN 2, and RICHARD E. MORLAN 3

1 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560
2 University of Maine, Orono 04473
3 National Museum of Man, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada KIA OM8

The discovery of butchered and modified bones of extinct Pleistocene fauna from Old Crow Flats, Yukon Territory, and the Dutton and Selby sites, Colorado, provides some of the earliest evidence for man in the New World. However, the significance of these discoveries rests entirely on the ability to determine whether these remains were modified by man. The results of experiments of elephant butchering, bone fracturing, and bone tool manufacturing support the hypothesis that these modified bones can be used to identify the presence of cultural activities.

Submitted on March 11, 1980
Revised on December 19, 1980


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Paleoindian large mammal hunters on the plains of North America.
G. C. Frison (1998)
PNAS 95, 14576-14583
   Abstract »    Full Text »    PDF »


To Advertise     Find Products

Science. ISSN 0036-8075 (print), 1095-9203 (online)