title: Flake tools stratified below paleo-Indian artifacts.
abstract: In northwest Missouri, Lithic stage flake tools struck from prepared cores have been excavated underlying a Paleo-Indian fluted point assemblage. These assemblages were in two different loesses of the last glaciation. Thermoluminescent analysis of stone tools dates the Paleo-Indian occupations at 8690 +/- 1000 B.C. and 12,855 +/- 1500 B.C.; the Lithic stage occupations must be older than 13,000 B.C. on the basis of geologic correlation, lithic analysis, and cultural stratigraphy.
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Reagan
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Rowlett
authors.forename: E G
authors.initials: EG
authors.lastname: Garrison
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dort
authors.forename: V M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Bryant
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Johannsen