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FOUR PRECERAMIC POINTS NEWLY DISCOVERED IN BELIZE: A COMMENT ON STEMP ET AL. (2016:279–299)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2017

W. James Stemp ,
Jaime J. Awe ,
M. Kathryn Brown ,
Eleanor Harrison-Buck ,
Christophe G. B. Helmke ,
Gabriel D. Wrobel  and
Jason Yaeger
W. James Stemp*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Criminology, Keene State College, Keene, NH, USA
Jaime J. Awe
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA (Jaime.awe@nau.edu, 928-523-1434)
M. Kathryn Brown
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA (kathryn.brown@utsa.edu, 210-458-6761)
Eleanor Harrison-Buck
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA (e.harrison-buck@unh.edu, 603-862-4742)
Christophe G. B. Helmke
Affiliation:
Institute of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Karen Blixens Vej 4, DK-2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark (cgbh@hum.ku.dk, +45 51-30-29-45)
Gabriel D. Wrobel
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA (wrobelg@msu.edu, 517-353-2950)
Jason Yaeger
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA (jason.yaeger@utsa.edu, 210-458-7966)
*
(jstemp@keene.edu, 603-358-2902; corresponding author)
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Stemp et al. (2016) published data on 81 preceramic (Archaic) points from Belize, Central America. In this comment, we report four more chipped chert bifaces recently recovered in Belize (Figure 1). Based on metrics (Table 1), technology, and style, three are classified as Lowe and one as a Sawmill point (Kelly 1993; Lohse et al. 2006; Stemp et al. 2016).

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Latin American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 394 - 397
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Copyright © 2017 by the Society for American Archaeology 

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*This article has been updated since original publication. An erratum notice detailing this change was also published (doi:10.1017/laq.2017.88).

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