Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture : Archaeology of North America (21st Lecture Continued)
15 Feb 2012
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Monte verde, chile y despite southern location, best candidate for pre-clovis site y sealed site, along modern creekbank y peat sealed off site, no oxygen y 12,000-14,000 bp: best known stone tools are points bifacial, not fluted. bullet like, long and narrow y some tools mounted in a wooden handle (undoubtedly made by humans, not nature) y similar artifacts have been found in northern south america (date to late pleistocene at least. More nomadic: many variants, very different across landscape, early paleoindians. 1) rare hunters/gatherers moved a lot. 3) mainly made up of kill sites (16 kill sites known/reported) many include extinct forms of elephants 15 are associated with elephants 14 are with mammoth 1 is with mastodons. Jake bluff site, oklahoma arroyo kill, used geographic feature to hunt more successfully killed 22 bison at once y one of the latest dating y.
