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In 1974, the late Dennis Puleston excavated a hafted stone artifact from the mucky fill of an ancient canal near San Antonio, Orange Walk District, in northern Belize. The artifact consists of several pieces of a wooden handle and a large chipped stone biface originally set in a mortise haft through the handle.
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Shafer, Harry J. and Hester, Thomas R.
"An Ancient Maya Hafted Stone Tool from Northern Belize,"
Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol. 1986,
Article 24. https://doi.org/10.21112/ita.1986.1.24
Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1986/iss1/24
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