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Some Recent Radiocarbon Dates for Western Venezuela*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Irving Rouse  and
José M. Cruxent
Irving Rouse
Affiliation:
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
José M. Cruxent
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Abstract

Two recent series of radiocarbon analyses, from Muaco and Rancho Peludo in western Venezuela, would seem at first glance to provide the oldest dates in the New World for stone projectile points and for pottery respectively. However, both series raise problems of interpretation. The Muaco dates may refer to one of several pre-projectile-point complexes, rather than to the El Jobo complex, which has projectile points; and the earliest Rancho Peludo dates may pertain to an occupation of that site by Paleo-Indians of the Manzanillo complex, prior to the ceramic occupation.

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American Antiquity , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , April 1963 , pp. 537 - 540
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copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

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An earlier version of this paper was presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Tucson, Arizona on May 5, 1962. We are indebted to the National Science Foundation for financial assistance, and to Minze Stuiver, director of the Geochronometric Laboratory, Yale University, for his radiocarbon analyses and for advice in interpreting them.

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