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The Merrell Locality (24BE1659) & Centennial Valley, southwest Montana : Pleistocene geology, paleontology & prehistoric archaeology / by Christopher L. Hill ... [et al.] ; compiled and edited by Christopher L. Hill and Leslie B. Davis.

Title
The Merrell Locality (24BE1659) & Centennial Valley, southwest Montana : Pleistocene geology, paleontology & prehistoric archaeology / by Christopher L. Hill ... [et al.] ; compiled and edited by Christopher L. Hill and Leslie B. Davis.
Publication
[Billings, Mont. : BLM Montana State Office], 2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Hill, Christopher L., 1959-
  • Davis, Leslie B.
  • United States. Bureau of Land Management. Montana State Office.
  • Museum of the Rockies.
Description
xii, 166 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
Summary
In 1983, at the initiative of Thomas A. Foor (Department of Anthropology, University of Montana), an opportunity was presented to Davis to continue and intensify archaeological and paleontological investigations of the Merrell Locality and site (24BE1659), in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). This site is located in southwestern Montana along one of the potential avenues/routes that could have been followed by early Native Americans making their way south of the Cordilleran ice sheets from northern entry points into North America or vice versa, heading northward. The Merrell Locality is situated along the northwest edge of Lima Reservoir in the Northern Rocky Mountain region of the Intermountain West. Previous fieldwork directed by Foor under a cooperative agreement with the BLM had established and radiocarbon dated the presence of a late Ice-Age fauna exposed in weathering geological context at Merrell.
Series Statement
Bureau of Land Management cultural resources series ; no. 4
Uniform Title
Cultural resources series (United States. Bureau of Land Management. Montana State Office) no. 4.
Alternative Title
  • Merrell Locality & Centennial Valley, southwest Montana Pleistocene geology, paleontology & prehistoric archaeology
  • Merrell Locality and Centennial Valley, southwest Montana Pleistocene geology, paleontology and prehistoric archaeology
Subject
  • From 10 thousand to 2 million years ago
  • Geology, Stratigraphic > Pleistocene
  • Paleontology > Pleistocene
  • Geology > Montana > Centennial Valley
  • Paleontology > Montana > Centennial Valley
  • Paleo-Indians > Montana > Centennial Valley
  • Merrell Locality (Mont.)
  • Centennial Valley (Mont.) > Antiquities
Note
  • "Technical report to the Dillon Resource Office, Butte District, U.S.D.I. Bureau of Land Management."
  • "A project and product of the First Montanans Search Program (Ice-Age and Paleoindian Research Components) cosponsored by the Kokopelli Archaeological Research Fund and the Bureau of Land Management under cooperative agreement #1422E950-A4-008."
  • "Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT."
  • "BLM/MT/ST-06/006+1050"--P. [2] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-125).
Funding (note)
  • Fieldwork authorization #94-MT-070-076-004
  • Cultural Resource permit #M82329
  • Paleontological resources use permit #M79222 by the Bureau of Land Managment, 1995-1999
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Leslie B. Davis -- Field methods / David C. Batten -- A field reconnaissance geological study / John P. Albanese -- Faunal remains, south block excavations / Christopher L. Hill and David C. Batten -- Geology of Centennial Valley and stratigraphy of Pleistocene fossil-bearing sediments / Christopher L. Hill -- Luminescence dating / James K. Feathers -- Geochronology of Merrell Locality strata and regional Paleoenvironmental contexts / Christopher L. Hill -- Late Pleistocene vertebrate fauna / Robert G. Dundas -- Pollen and algae / James K. Huber -- Phytoliths / Susan C. Mulholland -- Prehistoric archaeology. The Merrell Site artifact inventory / Christopher L. Hill and Dale P. Herbort -- Artifact crossdating / Leslie B. Davis -- Hydration age determination of Merrell Site obsidian artifacts / Leslie B. Davis -- Paleoindians in the Centennial Valley and environs / Leslie B. Davis and Matthew J. Root -- Acknowledgments -- References cited -- Appendix. Appendix A : Merrell Site datum controls / David C. Batten -- Appendix B : Descriptions of sediments and soils at various stations / John P. Albanese -- Appendix C : Merrell Locality identified fossil specimens listed by taxon / Robert G. Dundas -- Appendix D : Inventory of faunal remains recovered from the Merrell Locality / Robert G. Dundas -- Appendix E : Technical detail associated with the Luminescence dating / James K. Feathers.
ISBN
0615130437
LCCN
^^2006360407
OCLC
  • 67952013
  • SCSB-10309539
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library