FOUR PRECERAMIC POINTS NEWLY DISCOVERED IN BELIZE: A COMMENT ON STEMP ET AL. (2016:279–299). Issue 2 (14th December 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Stemp, W. James; Awe, Jaime J.; Brown, M. Kathryn; Harrison-Buck, Eleanor; Helmke, Christophe G. B.; Wrobel, Gabriel D.; Yaeger, Jason
• Is Part Of: Latin American antiquity. Volume 29: Issue 2(2018)
• Page Start: 394
• Page End: 397
• Publication Date: 2017-12-14
• Subjects: Indians of Mexico -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Indians of Central America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Indians of South America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; Latin America -- Antiquities -- Periodicals; 918
• DOI: 10.1017/laq.2017.82
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1045-6635

Abstract

Abstract : Stemp et al. (2016 ) published data on 81 preceramic (Archaic) points from Belize, Central America. In this comment, we report four more chipped chert bifaces recently recovered in Belize (Figure 1 ). Based on metrics (Table 1 ), technology, and style, three are classified as Lowe and one as a Sawmill point (Kelly1993 ; Lohse et al.2006 ; Stemp et al.2016 ).