This report examines lithics from the Mousterian site of La Quina in southwestern France housedin the collections at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University. In 1921 the American School of Prehistoric Research, newly founded by George Grant MacCurdy, went to LaQuina and excavated cultural material, a portion of which was brought back to New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Here the lithic samples from that expedition — including additional La Quinalithics obtained by Yale Peabody Museum through exchange — are described using both metricand nonmetric characters, analyzed for differences as a function of excavation level, and compared to earlier published findings.
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1 October 2008
La Quina Lithic Collections Assembled by the American School of Prehistoric Research atthe Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Douglas P. Park
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La Quina
Lithic analysis
Mousterian
PALEOLITHIC
Quina step fracture