Blade Manufacture in Southern California

Abstract The striking of long, slender, parallel-sided flakes, or blades, from prepared cores has long been known in the Arctic and Mesoamerica. Small pointed blades with distinctive triangular cross section are also found in the Late Horizon in both mainland and island Canaliño sites in that part o...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:American Antiquity
Main Author: Swartz, B. K.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1960
Subjects:
Museology
Archeology
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
History
Arctic
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277527
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600026706
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Summary:Abstract The striking of long, slender, parallel-sided flakes, or blades, from prepared cores has long been known in the Arctic and Mesoamerica. Small pointed blades with distinctive triangular cross section are also found in the Late Horizon in both mainland and island Canaliño sites in that part of the Santa Barbara Channel region of southern California which was ethnographically occupied by the Chumash.

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