The northern fluted point complex: late Pleistocene-early Holocene Arctic

[BenjaminE]

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/d3d9/fbe3aeb42c68e977e1d4862501748602ee6c.pdf

 

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[BenjaminE]

Some good reading tonite!

It is very interesting. In my opinion, the stuff up there looks like the stuff from El Bajio, Sonora both of late paleoindian age. My guess is that maybe the V-base fluted point makers in the west shot up to Alaska, following herds, when the ice corridor opened. It would have been a south to north movement.

Also, the range of the western V-base fluted point makers more or less follows the the range of the Uto-Aztecan family of dialects, spanning more or less from central Mexico, all the way up to near the Canadian border in the Great Basin. Those people stopped moving, for the most part, at the end of the paleoindian era. (Obviously, the southern Na-Dene branches of Apache and Navajo would be the exceptions.) And, I believe it is estimated that 5,000 years ago the people in the Uto-Aztecan range were still speaking more or less the same language. So, I always wonder whether those northern V-base fluted point makers were an extension of the western V-base point makers? I don't know.