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The Denbigh Flint Complex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

J. L. Giddings Jr.
J. L. Giddings Jr.*
Affiliation:
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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A thin layer of pebbles and flinty artifacts isolated during the summers of 1948 and 1949 at the bottom of a site on Cape Denbigh, on the north Bering Sea coast of Alaska, furnishes concrete evidence in support of theories of a Bering Strait gateway to America in remote times. The flint complex from the old layer holds little in common with what we think of as Eskimo. For descriptive parallels it will be necessary to draw upon sources far removed from the Bering Strait and out of the general range of recent cultures. This specific cultural horizon appears to furnish a strong linkage of American archaeology with that of the Old World.

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Research Article
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American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , January 1951 , pp. 193 - 203
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1951

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