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- Title
The Copper Creek Clovis Point from Hells Canyon, Northeastern Oregon.
- Authors
REID, KENNETH C.; ROOT, MATTHEW J.; HUGHES, RICHARD E.
- Abstract
Clovis points along the Snake River occur near the end of the anadromous fish runs at Auger Falls and on the upper Snake River plain between American Falls and Bannock Creek. However, before the discovery of the Copper Creek example described here, they were not known to occur in anadromous, high-energy, streamside locales as far downstream as Hells Canyon. The Copper Creek specimen is an impact-fractured Clovis point made from Gregory Creek obsidian, which outcrops 150 km. to the southwest. This source joins Timber Butte, Big Southern Butte, and the Walcott Tuff as the earliest obsidian sources exploited by Paleoindians along the middle Snake River.
- Subjects
HELLS Canyon (Idaho &; Or.); IDAHO; OREGON; CLOVIS points; OBSIDIAN implements; PREHISTORIC tools
- Publication
Journal of California & Great Basin Anthropology, 2008, Vol 28, Issue 1, p75
- ISSN
0191-3557
- Publication type
Article