By Dr. Michael K. Faught Fluted Paleoindian points are found all
over North America, but -- as Ronald Mason first noted in 1962
-- their distribution is not uniform. This data has a number of
important implications for the study of early human occupation
in North America, and it points out that Florida's robust
Paleoindian record is important from a continental perspective.
Since the 1950s, many publications and manuscripts have been
written which tally the numbers of points known for individual
counties and whole states. Regional compilations of this data
for several Eastern States was begun in 1982 and done recently
by David Anderson. These two publications demonstrated that
fluted points are plentiful in the Eastern United States.
However, it seemed to me that there were far fewer fluted points
in the West, but no puclished compilation existed to compare the
whole continent systematically. Therefore, I accumulated
additional data from the Central and Western states in 1993, as
part of my own dissertation r