Description, Geometric Morphometrics, and Microwear of Five Clovis Fluted Projectile Points from Lucas and Wood Counties
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Description, Geometric Morphometrics, and Microwear of Five Clovis Fluted Projectile Points from Lucas and Wood Counties, Northwest Ohio, USA Alyssa Perrone 1 & Michelle R. Bebber 1 & Matthew Boulanger 2 & Briggs Buchanan 3 & G. Logan Miller 4 & Brian G. Redmond 5 & Metin I. Eren 1,5 # Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Abstract In 2011, the University of Toledo, Ohio, transferred five Clovis fluted points to the Department of Archaeology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History for permanent curation. Here, following several similar previous efforts, we describe these five Late Pleistocene artifacts with technological descriptions, illustrations, morphometrics, and microwear. These specimens support long-distance lithic procurement (> 200 km) from central Ohio to NW Ohio, as well as the exploitation of the NW Ohio and southern Michigan landscape by Clovis Paleoindian foragers. Keywords Clovis . Ohio . Colonization . Stone Tools . Microwear . Morphometrics
Introduction Over the last several years, a core team of archeologists (Bebber, Boulanger, Buchanan, Eren, Miller, Redmond) and their students have put concerted efforts into collaborating with collectors and avocational archeologists (Bebber et al. 2017; Eren et al. 2016, 2018a, b, 2019; Norris et al. 2019a, b; Werner et al. 2017). The procedure is simple: if collectors and avocational archeologists are willing to donate their collections to public
* Metin I. Eren [email protected]
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Department of Anthropology, Kent State University, Kent, OH 44242, USA
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Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275, USA
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Department of Anthropology, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK 74104, USA
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 61790, USA
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Department of Archaeology, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology
museums, we as professional archeologists will describe, analyze, and publish those collections and include them as co-authors, if they so choose. We have found several benefits to this arrangement. First, artifacts and collections are transferred to public institutions where any researcher can study them. In addition to increasing scholarship, this situation helps to combat the “reproducibility crisis” (Marwick and Jacobs 2017) beyond the level of only publishing one’s data because artifacts themselves need to be reanalyzed and data need to be reproduced, not just analyses of those data (Haythorn et al. 2018). Second, co-authorship with collectors and avocational archeologists produces goodwill on the part of these latter groups who predominately wish to feel respected and oftentimes simply want to learn about their artifacts. Third, once the partnership develops, further education and learning take place on both sides. Professional archeologists discuss the importance of leaving discovered sites intact while collectors and avocational archeologists are more likely to report future finds to professionals. Finally, while some coll
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