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From Kostenki to Clovis pp 279–292Cite as

Fluted Points in the Eastern Forests

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East of the Mississippi River, fluted points with general morphological and technological relationships to western Clovis and Folsom types are widespread and numerous, although their geological and biological contexts are very different. They occur in natural settings so diverse as to defy generalizations about cultural adaptations by archaeologists just as they must have defied traditional patterns of behavior by the people who produced and used the fluted points. The chronology of early Paleo-Indian appearance and subsequent dispersal in the eastern forests is very poorly known. Radiocarbon dates, all in the 11th millennium B.p. (Haynes et al. 1984), are available only in and near the northern deglaciated areas, where the earliest eastern fluted points are not expected. The available dates indicate that fluted point styles in the East may span the 11th millennium B.P. By 10,000 years ago, the beginning of the Holocene, fluted points were no longer made.

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Dincauze, D.F. (1993). Fluted Points in the Eastern Forests. In: Soffer, O., Praslov, N.D. (eds) From Kostenki to Clovis. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1112-4_20

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