Nebo Hill, A Lithic Complex in Western Missouri

Bibliographic Data

ID2561673
AuthorsJ M Shippee (corresponding author)
Year1948
Volume14
Issue1
Pages29-32
Publication date1948-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/276040
OpenAlexW2138786622
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited2

Twenty-Six years of periodic reconnaissance along the Missouri River bluffs in western Missouri have revealed numerous archaeological sites on which repeated finds of long well-made blades, lanceolate in form, have occurred. These typical blades are not found in the artifact inventories of the reported manifestations of the region, but do seem to bear striking similarities to artifacts of the lithic cultures of the Great Plains. Brief mention of this complex has appeared (Shippee, 1940, p. 12; Wedel, 1943, p. 102) but it has not been fully characterized. Data now available will be presented here; they are tentative until supplemented by excavation.The four sites which will be described are located in Clay County, Missouri, within a few miles of Kansas City (Fig. 4), in which area the Kansas River joins the Missouri. The prairies of eastern Kansas are relatively close by. The topographical locations and artifact inventories of these sites are practically identical

Archaeology · Artifact (error) · Excavation · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Geology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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