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Artifacts of Paleo-Indian Type, Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

J. M. Cruxent
J. M. Cruxent*
Affiliation:
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela
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Abstract

Paleo-Indian type artifacts of the Manzanillo complex consist of crude tools, such as choppers and scrapers, made of silicified wood. The find is related to the El Jobo chronology and is also compared with other complexes in North and South America.

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American Antiquity , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , April 1962 , pp. 576 - 579
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1962

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Footnotes

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This paper was read at the 10th Annual Convention of the Asociación Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia, Caracas, March 20-26, 1960. Translated from Spanish by Patrick Gallagher and Erifca Wagner, Yale University.

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