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

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Stanford, Dennis, Bonnichsen, Robson, Morlan, Richard E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1981
• Subjects: Old Crow Flats; Selby; Yukon; Old Crow
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.212.4493.438; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.212.4493.438

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...