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- Title
TWO UNUSUALLY LARGE CRESCENTICS FROM EASTERN CALIFORNIA.
- Authors
ROGERS, ALEXANDER; IZZI, SARAH
- Abstract
Two unusually large cryptocrystalline silicate crescentics were found while cataloging Maturango Museum collections in the summer of 2015: one from the El Paso Mountains in eastern Kern County, the second from the Panamint Range in southern Inyo County. Both are broken, apparently in manufacture, but when intact were unusually large, probably exceeding 100 mm in length. Both are lunate crescent preforms, and show heat-treating. Their size is too large to be "transverse projectile points," but they may have been cutting tools or harvesting implements such as finger sickles. Crescents are typically Paleoindian temporal markers, and their (re) discovery suggests the value of examining museum collections.
- Subjects
MUSEUM collection catalogs; CRESCENTS (Shapes); ARCHAEOLOGY; PALEO-Indians; MUSEUM techniques
- Publication
Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology, 2016, Vol 30, p301
- ISSN
0897-0947
- Publication type
Article