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 CanaliƱo sites in that part o...
Published in: | American Antiquity |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1960
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/277527 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0002731600026706 |
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 CanaliƱo sites in that part of the Santa Barbara Channel region of southern California which was ethnographically occupied by the Chumash. |
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