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Microblades at Cahokia, Illinois

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Ronald J. Mason and
Gregory Perino
Ronald J. Mason
Affiliation:
Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, Wisc.
Gregory Perino
Affiliation:
Thomas Gilcrease Foundation, Tulsa, Okla.
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Abstract

Small blades, blade tools, and cores recently found at the Cahokia site, Illinois, represent a microblade industry probably affiliated with the Old Village stage of Middle Mississippian. The artifacts are described, and attempts to assess their probable functions are discussed. The available comparative evidence is insufficient to demonstrate the degree of historical relationship, if any, between this newly defined industry and such other blade industries in the eastern United States as Poverty Point and Hopewell.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1961, pp. 553 - 557
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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