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WE have dated some of the oldest examples of obsidian use yet known in America. The obsidian originates from a new location, the Mostin site, which contains about a dozen burials and is located near the Borax Lake site in northern California. There it is thought that man lived as long ago as 10,000 yr and perhaps even at the end of the Pleistocene1.
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ERICSON, J., BERGER, R. Late Pleistocene American obsidian tools. Nature 249, 824–825 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249824a0
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