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The Whiskey Dick Shellmound, Washington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Earl H. Swanson
Earl H. Swanson*
Affiliation:
Idaho State College Museum, Pocatello, Idaho
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Abstract

A layer of shells covered by a mixed aeolian and alluvial deposit was exposed by a road cut in a tributary of the Columbia River. Three occupation levels contained few stone tools, including burins and large knives in the lowest level. A contracting-stem point in the middle level places the site in the Frenchman Springs III phase, 4th to 11th centuries A.D. The latest level reflects increasing aridity; the streams became intermittent and the population moved to the main river.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 1 , July 1959, pp. 122 - 123
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1959

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