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Harpoon Stone Tips and Sea Mammal Hunting on the Oregon and Northern California Coasts

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Harpoon Stone Tips and Sea Mammal Hunting on the Oregon and Northern California Coasts

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First Statement of Responsibility

Lyman, R. Lee; Clark, Linda A; Ross, Richard E

Text of Note

In the interior western United States, archaeologists have sometimes sought to determine whether projectile points were used with atlatl darts or with arrows by analyzing specimens with respect to variation in neck width (Thomas 1978; Corliss 1980). Such an approach represents use of a morphometric variable, often in lieu of impact damage (Bergman and Newcomer 1983; Odell and Cowan 1986) or edge damage (papers in Hayden 1979). Damage is often not present. Considerations of size, shape, bilateral symmetry, basically triangular shape, and ends that may be pointed, notched, or stemmed, as well as ethnographic information alone often lead to the categorizing of a group of artifacts as ''projectile points.'' Resulting classifications are relevant to functional and thus adaptational concerns and also to temporal concerns because of the late Holocene (ca. 2,500 to 1,500 B.P.) shift from the atlatl and dart or spear to the bow and arrow. The dating of this transition is unclear. Hanes (1977) believed it occurred ca. 2,500 B.P. in southeastern Oregon; Pettigrew (1981) placed it ca. 1,700 B.P. in northwestern Oregon.

Date of Publication

1988

Title

Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology

Volume Number

10/1

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Lyman, R. Lee; Clark, Linda A; Ross, Richard E

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275578

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