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6.2. Flaked stone tools from Canímar I. After Febles 1982.
in®uence of the Polish archaeologist Januz Kozlowski who, based on a correlation
of technological features and the typological compositions of lithic tool
assemblages, proposed different industries or industrial cycles including the
Canímar–Aguas Verdes complex. This complex had as an essential characteristic
a laminated microlithic technique, based on conical or subconical
nuclei, with some differences between the type sites of Canímar and Playitas
that were attributed to different settlements within the same cultural tradition
(Kozlowski 1975). 2 Geographically, this complex was located on the north
coast of Cuba, near Matanzas and Havana, as well as in Baracoa in the east.
The possible origins of the source material, according to the microliths and
their characteristics, were located in two regions of the Americas, the region
covered by the Jaketown ceramics in the Mississippi Valley and the area