Abstract
Because the abundance and distribution of fluted points has long played a critical role in interpreting various colonization and settlement scenarios of North America, correlations made between fluted point distribution and patterns of Early Paleoindian land use need to be critically evaluated. Gauging not just the source, but also nature of bias within distributional data of this sort is important if we are to improve the accuracy and reliability of our inferences concerning the timing, source, and mode of the radiation of human populations throughout the western Hemisphere. In this study, I employ a raster based GIS approach using a continuous non-site distribution of fluted biface distributions across a twenty-nine county (46,000 km2) study area of northern Illinois. The results suggest that when sources of bias are revealed and controlled for, significant settlement patterning can not only be identified, but more accurately interpreted.
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