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Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Stone Tool Technologies from the Pacific Coast of Canada (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations into late Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological components on the Pacific coast of Canada have uncovered several different approaches to chipped stone manufacturing. The earliest known assemblages are associated with calibrated radiocarbon ages between...
Stemmed Points and ‘Expedient Stone Tools’: early post-glacial archaeology on the BC coast. (2017)
Over 35 years ago Al Bryan and Ruth Gruhn were promoting the concept of a very early ‘Stemmed Point Tradition’ associated with ‘simple’ flake and core tools. They saw this ‘Far West’ area construct as being of similar age to Clovis and possibly even older. Al and Ruth were keenly interested in the assemblages of stemmed points and ‘expedient stone tools’ recovered by Fedje and others from a series of sites in the Eastern Slopes region of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the 1980s, an interest...