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The Alibates Flint Quarry, Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

James B. Shaeffer
James B. Shaeffer*
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University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla.
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It has been thought that one of the most easily recognized types of flint used in the manufacture of stone tools in the Southern Plains is Amarillo or Alibates flint (Kidder 1932: 31, 44; Krieger 1946: 50, 62; Skinner 1956: 13). This flint has been widely recognized in Texas, central and western Oklahoma, southern Kansas, eastern Colorado and western New Mexico (Watson 1950: 32; Bell and Baerreis 1951: 84; Suhm and Krieger 1954: 71). The material has been dated as early as Folsom and as late as protohistoric (Roberts 1942: 18; Schmidt and Toldan 1953: 173; Baker, Campbell, and Evans 1957: 2).

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American Antiquity , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , October 1958, pp. 189 - 191
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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