A FLUTED POINT FROM THE UPTAR SITE, NORTHEASTERN SIBERIA

Lanceolate bifacial points, including one fluted specimen, have been c ollected from beneath an early Holocene tephra at the Uptar site, nort heastern Siberia. Thus, the technology associated with the well-known Paleoindian tradition was not confined to the Americas. The Uptar coll ection does not compare readily with other Beringian complexes and dem onstrates that there is greater diversity in the archaeological record of northeastern Siberia than traditional colonization models imply.