Flake Knife
41-26-61
From: North America | United States of America | Wyoming | Sweetwater County | Near Eden | Finley Site
Curatorial Section: American
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Object Number
41-26-61
Current Location
Collections Storage
Culture
Cody Cultural Complex
Provenience
North America | United States of America | Wyoming | Sweetwater County | Near Eden | Finley Site
Site Name
Finley Site
Site Number
48SW5
Culture Area
Plains Culture Area
Locus
Killpecker Dune Field | bison kill/processing area
Period
Paleoindian
Date Made
7250 - 6850 BCE
Section
American
Materials
Quartzite
Technique
Chipped
Description
From clay layer (not in place) quartzite
Length
6.2 cm
Width
3.1 cm
Credit Line
Wyoming Eden Valley Expedition, Linton Satterthwaite, Charles Bache and E. B. Howard, 1941
Current & Past Exhibitions
This object has never been on display.
Bibliography
Howard, Edgar B., Linton B. Satterthwaite, and Charles Bache. "Preliminary Report on a Buried Yuma Site in Wyoming." American Antiquity 7, no. 1. (1941): 70-74.
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Howard, Edgar B. "The Finley Site: Discovery of Yuma Points, in situ, near Eden, Wyoming." American Antiquity 8, no. 3. (1943): 224-234.
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Hack, John T. "Antiquity of the Finley Site." American Antiquity 8, no. 3. (1935-2018): 235-241.
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Moss, John H. Early Man in the Eden Valley . Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph, 1951.
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Satterthwaite, Linton B. Stone Artifacts at and Near the Finley Site, Near Eden, Wyoming . Philadelphia: The University of Pennsylvania Museum Monograph, 1957.
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