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An Early Implement Assemblage from a Limestone Cavern in California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

William J. Wallace and
Donald W. Lathrap
William J. Wallace
Affiliation:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles 7, California
Donald W. Lathrap
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley 4, California
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Hawver cave, located about two miles from Cool, El Dorado County, California, is well known to paleontologists for its abundant and diversified Pleistocene fauna. The fossil animal remains have been described in several monographs (Furlong, 1907; Stock, 1918; Miller, 1912; Kellogg, 1912). The occurrence of human skeletal material has also been noted (Merriam, 1909; Stock, 1918, pp. 466-8), but an interesting series of artifacts recovered from the cave has received only brief mention in a newspaper article (Hamilton, 1910). These man-made objects are, on the whole, distinct from those manufactured by the historic Indians of the region and seem worthy of detailed analysis. Before describing the artifacts, however, it is necessary to review some of the facts pertaining to the cave and its contents.

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , October 1952, pp. 133 - 138
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1952

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