Authentication Analysis of the Angus Nebraska Fluted Point

• Published in: Plains anthropologist Vol. 46; no. 177; pp. 323 - 325
• Main Author: Howard, Calvin D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln, NE Routledge 01.08.2001; Plains Anthropological Society; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Animals; Archaeology; Bones; Dating; Excavation and methods; Extinct species; Flint; Flutes; Hunting; Laboratory methods; Material culture; Methodology and general studies; Natural history; Paleoanthropology; Prehistoric era; Prehistory and protohistory; Palaeo-Indian; North America; United States of America; America; Nebraska; Washington DC; Knife River; Colorado; Analysis; Mammoth; Lithic industry; Skeleton; Finds study; Point; Typology

In 1931, archaeologists reportedly found a fluted point within a mammoth skeleton. The presence of the weapon seemed to be evidence that humans and mammoths were contemporaries, but dating of the skeleton placed it in an era before humans are believed to have existed. Howard reports the results of a...