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The Archaeology of the Lena Basin and its New World Relationships, Part I

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Paul Tolstoy
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In an earlier study (Tolstoy 1953b), we attempted to outline the Old World distributions of a limited number of ceramic elements and to make a case for their introduction into North America some 3000 to 4000 years ago. Russian reports that have appeared or become available to us since then (Okladnikov 1945, 1946, 1950b, 1955a, 1955b), as well as recent work this side of Bering Strait, prompt now a review of the sequence in the Lena Basin as a whole with North America parallels in mind. The main emphasis here is on the Neolithic of the Lena drainage and Archaic to Early Woodland developments in eastern North America.

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American Antiquity , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , April 1958 , pp. 397 - 418
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1958

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