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Holdings: 35mm slide: 11238
Date of Photo: Jan. 1967
World Region: North America
Region: Great Plains
Country: United States
State/Province: Colorado
County/District: Cheyenne
Archaeological Site Name: Olsen-Chubbuck
Archaeological Site Number: 5-Ch-1
Period: Paleoindian
Description: Olsen-Chubbuck site, Colorado. Projectile points found at the buffalo kill site show a surprising divergence of form in view of the fact that all of them were used simultaneously by a single group. In the center is a point of the Scottsbluff type. At the top left is another Scottsbluff point that shows some of the characteristics of a point of a point of the Eden type at top right. At bottom left is a third Scottsbluff point; it has characteristi
Image Categories: Artifact Function: Stone Tools and Tool Production: Chipped Stone; Artifact Material: Stone
Source Type Detail: Book Citation: "A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill," by Joe Ben Wheat; p. 46. In: Scientific American, Vol. 216. New York: Munn & Co., January 1967.

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Full citation: "Olsen-Chubbuck site, Colorado. Projectile points found at the buffalo kill site show a surprising divergence of form in view of the fact that all of them were used simultaneously by a single group. In the center is a point of the Scottsbluff type. At the top left is another Scottsbluff point that shows some of the characteristics of a point of a point of the Eden type at top right. At bottom left is a third Scottsbluff point; it has characteristi". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-17044/17044. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. May 11, 2024.