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The Utilization of Flakes for Cleaning Fish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Christopher B. Donnan  and
M. Edward Moseley
Christopher B. Donnan
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley, California
M. Edward Moseley
Affiliation:
Harvard UniversityCambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

Loma Lasca, a coastal site near the mouth of the Santa Valley, Peru, produced an abundance of large primary flakes. Investigation of the midden suggested that these were used for the scaling and cleaning of fish.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 33 , Issue 4 , October 1968 , pp. 502 - 503
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1968

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