deadman_932
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Occam's: I haven't heard anything about that site for a long time, but I'll ask around and see if I can find out anything. I never bothered with it since I *thought* it was like the Calico site : "flake-tools" that were geofacts. BUT Stuart Feidel says that there were 4 sites on the Valsequillo reservoir dug by Irwin-Williams and that the Hueyatlaco site was the most promising...it consists of 6 "culture-bearing" levels ( in the jargon of that day).
The Lowest (presumably oldest) level had SIX TOTAL artifacts, 3 flakes and three "points" found in it, one a flake-retouch and the other 2 on "blades." ( the difference between a flake and a "blade" is simply one is more rectangular or elongated... flakes tend to be more ovate or semi-circular.) These were alleged to be associated with extinct horse, camelid and mastodon fossils. The problem with all of these is that they are unresolvable from "geofacts" that would occur naturally as moving water causes chips in rocks colliding together.
"culture-bearing levels" closer to the surface had biface points with retouch, retouched flakes and blades and a leaf-shaped (spear?)point with shoulders and stem.
Virginia Steen-McIntyre has an entire site devoted to this stuff at : http://www.valsequilloclassic.net/ .Look under forum topics for Hueyatlaco and El Horno. "Huey" means donkey or ass, if I remember right.
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