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Burins from Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Jeremiah F. Epstein
Jeremiah F. Epstein*
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University of Texas, Austin, Tex.
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Abstract

Burins have recently been discovered in several Texas sites, in Central Texas, associated with Angostura points and in the Trans-Pecos area, in a Desert Culture context. A few parallels are seen with Alaskan burins. The data indicate that in Texas, burins are part of the paleo-Indian and Archaic complexes. There is also a possibility that they were made as late as the 16th century along the Rio Grande.

Burins have been considered a significant trait of many early lithic complexes in northern North America ever since Giddings (1951) discovered them at Cape Denbigh. Within the past year burins have also been recognized in the Archaic and paleo-Indian cultures in the Trans-Pecos and Central parts of Texas.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , July 1960, pp. 93 - 97
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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