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An Early Man Site in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Francis A. Riddell  and
William H. Olsen
Francis A. Riddell
Affiliation:
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, California
William H. Olsen
Affiliation:
State of California, Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, California
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Abstract

A collection of chipped stone specimens from a locality on the south shore of Tulare Lake in the San Joaquin Valley of California includes a number of points which are closely analogous to specimens of the fluted point tradition (Clovis-Folsom). Other chipped stone pieces suggest antiquity and probable San Dieguito affinity. The site, known as the Witt site, after the collector, shows few or no late period artifacts and lies below the late prehistoric Tulare Lake level.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , April 1969 , pp. 121 - 130
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1969

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