miércoles, 6 de marzo de 2013

Excavations in Oregon Reveal Promising New Early Paleoindian Site

Archaeologists to return to site in 2013

Called Rimrock Draw, the rockshelter is located near the town of Riley in southeastern Oregon. It is a site where archaeologists have been conducting surface surveys and excavations since 2011, yielding a number of artifacts that suggest human occupation of significant antiquity. The site may date perhaps as far back as the Late Pleistocene Epoch (near the end of the geological period from 2,588,000 to 11,700 years ago) and to the Early and Middle Holocene Epoch (the Holocene beginning about 11,500 years ago).

Items recovered from the 2012 excavations at Rimrock Draw Rockshelter: 1/3. Haskett stemmed point

Surveyed initially by the Burns Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and volunteers from the Oregon Archaeological Society, finds have thus far included 26 stemmed points (see below, right), a Black Rock Concave Base point, a crescent fragment, Northern Side-Notched points, biface fragments, including a fluted biface, "overshot" flakes suggestive of Clovis technology, a small number of Elko Series points, and a bedrock mortar. [...] Popular Archaeology

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