Publication Date:
2011-03-26
Description:
Compelling archaeological evidence of an occupation older than Clovis (~12.8 to 13.1 thousand years ago) in North America is present at only a few sites, and the stone tool assemblages from these sites are small and varied. The Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas, contains an assemblage of 15,528 artifacts that define the Buttermilk Creek Complex, which stratigraphically underlies a Clovis assemblage and dates between ~13.2 and 15.5 thousand years ago. The Buttermilk Creek Complex confirms the emerging view that people occupied the Americas before Clovis and provides a large artifact assemblage to explore Clovis origins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Waters, Michael R -- Forman, Steven L -- Jennings, Thomas A -- Nordt, Lee C -- Driese, Steven G -- Feinberg, Joshua M -- Keene, Joshua L -- Halligan, Jessi -- Lindquist, Anna -- Pierson, James -- Hallmark, Charles T -- Collins, Michael B -- Wiederhold, James E -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2011 Mar 25;331(6024):1599-603. doi: 10.1126/science.1201855.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for the Study of the First Americans, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. mwaters@tamu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21436451" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Anthropology, Cultural/*history
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Archaeology
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Geologic Sediments
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History, Ancient
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Humans
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Texas
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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