The Stemmed Point Tradition of Western North America

In April 2018, the Center for the Study of the First Americans, Hakai Institute, and University of Victoria co-sponsored a five-day workshop investigating the origins of Western Stemmed technologies and their relationship with other Paleoindian and Paleolithic technocomplexes of far western North America, Beringia, and northeast Asia. This Perspective introduces the proceedings of the workshop, which are presented as a series of longer essays in...