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Title

Early human occupation in far western North America : the Clovis-Archaic interface / edited by Judith A. Willig, C. Melvin Aikens, and John L. Fagan.

Publication

Carson City, Nev. : Nevada State Museum, [1988].

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Additional Authors

• Willig, Judith A. (Judith Ann), 1953-
• Aikens, C. Melvin
• Fagan, John Lee.

Description

xii, 482 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Series Statement

Nevada State Museum anthropological papers ; no. 21

Uniform Title

Anthropological papers (Nevada State Museum) ; no. 21

Subject

• Paleo-Indians > West (U.S.)
• Clovis culture > West (U.S.)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > West (U.S.)
• West (U.S.) > Antiquities

Note

• "December 1988."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• The Clovis-Archaic Interface in Far Western North America / Judith A. Willig and C. Melvin Aikens -- Conceptualizing the Paleo-Indian and Archaic in the Great Basin / Steven R. Simms -- The Relationship of the Stemmed Point and Fluted Point Traditions in the Great Basin / Alan L. Bryan -- The Clear Lake Basin and Early Complexes in California's North Coast / David A. Fredrickson and Gregory G. White -- Prehistoric Background of Tulare Lake, California / William J. Wallce and Francis A. Riddell -- The Archaeology of CA-MNO-679: A Pre-Archaic Site in Long Valley Caldera, Mono County, California / Mark E. Basgall -- Fluted Points in the Mojave Desert / Claude N. Warren and Carl Phagen -- Spatial and Temporal Variability in Faunal Remains from Four Lake Mojave-Pinto Period Sites in the Mojave Desert / Charles L. Douglas, Dennis L. Jenkins and Claude N. Warren -- Spiral Fractures, Cutmarks and Other Myths about Early Bone Assemblages / Gary Haynes -- The Wizard Beach Recession: Farmdalian (25,000 yr B.P.) Vertabrate Fossils Co-occur with Early Holocene Artifacts / Amy J. Dansie, Jonathan O. Davis and Thomas W. Stafford, Jr.
• Artifacts from the Northwestern Pyramid Lake Shoreline / Donald R. Tuohy -- Paleoindian and Early Archaic Cultural Complexes from Three Central Nevada Localities / Donald R. Tuohy -- A Model of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Adaptations in Eastern Nevada / Barry A. Price and Sarah E. Johnston -- Early Lowland Prehistory in Southcentral Nevada / John K. Zancanella -- Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition Occupation in Butte Valley, Eastern Nevada / Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones -- The Prehistoric Dwellers at Lake Hubbs / Phillip W. Hutchinson -- The View from the North / Roy L. Carlson -- Early Holocene Forager Mobility Strategies on the Southern Columbia Plateau / Kenneth M. Ames -- Early Cultural Traditions of the Owyhee Uplands as Seen from Dirty Shame Rockshelter / Richard C. Hanes -- Functional Efficiency and Technological Change: A Hafting Tradition Model for Prehistoric North America / Robert R. Musil -- Clovis and Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition Lithic Technologies at the Dietz Site in South-central Oregon / John L. Fagan -- Paleo-Archaic Adaptations and Lakeside Settlement Patterns in the Northern Alkali Basin, Oregon / Judith A. Willig.

OCLC

21708255

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Harvard Library