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A Fluted Point from Durango, Mexico*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

José L. Lorenzo
José L. Lorenzo*
Affiliation:
Dirección de Prehistoria, Moneda 13, Mexico, D. F.
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Under the direction of J. Charles Kelley of Southern Illinois University, an anthropological field school carried out investigations in the State of Durango, Mexico, from June 22 to August 8, 1952, with the permission of the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia.

Their camp was established on the rancho “Santa Barbara,” property of Fred Weicker, about 50 kms. west of Durango city, in the Sierra Madre Occidental. The camp was on the side of an arroyo, a branch of the Rio Mimbres, which after joining the Rio Chico, flows into the Rio Tunal. This becomes the Mesquital-San Pedro and flows into the Pacific through the State of Nayarit. The camp was approximately 2280 m. above sea level, near archaeological remains consisting of house-mounds, ceramics, and obsidian artifacts.

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American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1953 , pp. 394 - 395
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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Publication No. 4 of the Direccion de Prehistoria, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia. Translated by A. D. Krieger

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1 [Sr. Lorenzo has not specifically stated that the artifact had been re-fashioned, only “re-used.” Kelley (letter to me, dated Jan. 31, 1953) states that “It appears to me to have been a longer point that was broken and had a new tip chipped on. As to its affiliations, Haury pointed out that, except for the re-chipping, it has almost exact duplicates in his series of eight projectile points found with the mammoth at Naco, Arizona, found in the spring of 1952, which he classifies as Clovis Fluted.” Thus, while in its re-chipped state it may fall within the maximum size range of Folsom points, the features suggest that the original-! point would quite readily be included in the Clovis type. ADKh site inhabited in a relatively late epoch, does not rule out its implications of antiquity. Considering its characteristics, it is without doubt the most ancient type of projectile point so far found in Mexico.