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Geological and Geochemical Evidence Concerning the Antiquity of Bone Tools from Tule Springs, Site 2, Clark County, Nevada1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

C. Vance Haynes Jr. ,
A. R. Doberenz  and
Jack A. Allen
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
A. R. Doberenz
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Jack A. Allen
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

Two bone objects from the Tule Springs site, possibly tools, occurred in ancient sedimentary fill of a small spring outlet-channel remnant. The ancient spring was active more than 40,000 years ago and again 12,000 to 13,000 years ago. The fill and the bone contained therein could be of either age. Chemical and X-ray analysis on bone of the known ages and bone from the fill showed no significant or systematic differences in fluorine, uranium, nitrogen, or phosphate content. On geological grounds, it is concluded that the bone objects are 12,000 to 13,000 years old.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , April 1966 , pp. 517 - 521
Copyright
Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1966

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Footnotes

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Contribution No. 85, Program in Geochronology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

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