@article {9531,
	title = {Is There a Northern Cordilleran Tradition?},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Archaeology/Journal canadien d{\textquoteright}arch{\'e}ologie},
	volume = {7},
	year = {1983},
	pages = {023-048},
	abstract = {<p>An early northwestern subarctic tradition is proposed to account for occupation preceding the Paleo-Arctic tradition (appearance of microblades). This northern Cordilleran tradition, based in part on MacNeish\&$\#$39;s Cordilleran tradition, also co-existed with the Paleo-Arctic in areas east of the latter and to some extent elsewhere in a geographical mosaic. This article first focuses on early components, in the estimated and postulated 12,000 to 10,000 year age range, which are characterized by bifaced projectile points including fluted points. The northern Cordilleran later takes into account assemblages which are poorly explained in terms of the Paleo-Arctic and Northern Archaic traditions and for which a Plains origin, implied by attribution to the Plano tradition, may be erroneous. The encompassing thesis of this article is that northern interior prehistory is more complex than is suggested by its present organization into major tradition con- structs. Proposals made here thus are not asserted to be ultimate historical reality but are offered in a tradition of discussion and reassessment of data.</p>},
	author = {Donald W. Clark}
}
