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Age of the Skeleton from the Lagow Sand Pit, Texas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

K. P. Oakley  and
W. W. Howells
K. P. Oakley
Affiliation:
British Museum (Natural History), London, England
W. W. Howells
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
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Abstract

Measurements of the fluorine, uranium, and nitrogen content of a representative series of bones from Lagow and neighboring terrain show that while the human skeleton from the Lagow Sand Pit is not modern, it cannot be assigned an antiquity equivalent to that of the Lewisville Pleistocene fauna at the site.

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American Antiquity , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , April 1961 , pp. 543 - 545
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1961

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