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Recent Data from Two Paleo-Indian Sites on Medicine Creek, Nebraska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

E. Mott Davis
E. Mott Davis*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska State Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Excavations in deeply buried paleo-Indian sites of late Wisconsin age in the Medicine Creek Reservoir area, Nebraska, have resulted in the appearance of a number of preliminary statements in recent years. The present statement, anticipating publication of a complete report of the work, has been prepared in order to make available certain data not hitherto reported.

This report is concerned with data from two stratified sites, the Lime Creek site (Ft-41) and the Red Smoke site (Ft-42), in both of which artifact assemblages including Plainview points have been found. These two sites are on Lime Creek, a small western tributary of Medicine Creek. They are near the Allen site (Ft-50) on Medicine Creek, source of the Frontier complex (Holder and Wike, 1949). As yet no specific relationship has been found to exist between the Frontier complex and the material from Lime Creek and Red Smoke, and therefore the Allen site will not be discussed in this paper. Geologically the situations of all three sites are very similar.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , April 1953 , pp. 380 - 386
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1953

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