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- Title
Le site Gaudreau de Weedon.
- Authors
Graillon, Éric; Chapdelaine, Claude; Chalifoux, Éric
- Abstract
The Gaspe Peninsula and the Bas-Saint-Laurent region are rich in sites with parallel retouched points, but they are rare elsewhere in Southern Quebec. A new site located at the junction of the Saint Francois and Saumon Rivers in Weedon (Eastern Townships) has produced a small collection of Late Paleoindian Piano points made from an unknown material that may represent a rare variety of rhyolite. This diagnostic assemblage was found deep below the topsoil in association with a small workshop containing 500 flakes of the same material. The tools and the lithic debitage are described in this article, accompanied by a discussion of the impact of this new Piano site on the chronology and adaptation of a group of hunter-gatherers trying to adjust to the Pleistocene-Holocene transition characterized by changing environmental conditions.
- Subjects
PALEO-Indian implements; PALEO-Indians; ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; NATIVE American history; PALEO-Indian hunting techniques; HUNTER-gatherer societies
- Publication
Recherches Amérindiennes au Québec, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 1, p67
- ISSN
0318-4137
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1023722ar