Thickness and Fluting of Paleo-Indian Projectile Points

1 July 1963

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Antiquity

Vol. 29 (1) , 105-106
https://doi.org/10.2307/278644

Abstract

A statistical examination of Paleo-Indian projectile points and bases from the Holcombe (Michigan) and Scharbauer (Texas) sites shows that basal modification, thinning to fluting, is distributed throughout the range of thickness. It is possible that fluted points were considerably thicker before fluting, but this is untestable and, since the present populations have a normal distribution, seems unlikely.

Keywords

FLUTING
PALEO INDIAN
PROJECTILE POINTS
INDIAN PROJECTILE
BASAL MODIFICATION
NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
SITES SHOWS

This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:

The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern North America
Current Anthropology, 1962
FOSSIL BISON AND ASSOCIATED ARTIFACTS FROM PLAINVIEW, TEXAS
GSA Bulletin, 1947