Bone Foreshafts from a Clovis Burial in Southwestern Montana

11 October 1974

journal article
other
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 186 (4159) , 147-150
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.186.4159.147

Abstract

Formal and functional analyses of bone artifacts from a Clovis burial in southwestern Montana suggest that they were constructed to serve as (detachable or nondetachable) foreshafts for attaching fluted projectile points to lance shafts.

Keywords

FUNCTIONAL
FORESHAFTS
BURIAL
CLOVIS
ARTIFACTS
SERVE
FORMAL
NONDETACHABLE
PROJECTILE
LANCE

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