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Ice Age hunters of the Rockies

Title

Ice Age hunters of the Rockies / Dennis J. Stanford and Jane S. Day, editors.

Publication

Niwot, Colorado : University Press of Colorado, [1992]
©1992

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Description

xii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Summary

The ice age hunters of the Rocky Mountains were some of North America's earliest inhabitants. Although many scholars had long suspected that humans entered the Americas at an early date, no concrete proof existed until the find at Folsom, New Mexico, in 1926. There, J.D. Figgens of the Denver Museum of Natural History excavated fossil bison bones in direct association with human-made fluted stone points, demonstrating for the first time that humans and the ice age bison.
Were contemporaries in the American Southwest. In the years following the Folsom discovery, new sites came to light that further confirmed the presence of late Pleistocene hunters in North America. Since the initial discoveries of ice age hunters in America, the ensuing 65 years have witnessed a rapidly enlarged database and the development of increasingly sophisticated analytical techniques that are reinterpreting the archaeological record. Ice Age Hunters of the.
Rockies explores the many questions that still surround the Pleistocene cultures of 12,000 years ago and the adaptations of these early civilizations to the last great ice age. In this important volume, a diverse group of top scholars discuss issues such as the time of arrival of the first Americans, adaptations to various environments, and the use by early people of high-altitude sites.

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Congress
Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

New World origins: new research from the Americas and the Soviet Union / Christy G. Turner II -- Observations on the Late Pleistocene bone assemblage from the Lamb Spring site, Colorado / John W. Fisher, Jr. -- New radiocarbon dates for some old Folsom sites: accelerator technology / C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Roelf P. Beukens, A.J.T. Jull, and Owen K. Davis -- Stewart's Cattle Guard site: an analysis of bison remains in a Folsom kill-butchery campsite / Margaret A. Jodry and Dennis J. Stanford -- The Hanson site and Folsom on the northwestern plains / Eric E. Ingbar -- Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains / Jack L. Hofman -- Indian Creek Paleoindians: early occupation of the Elkhorn Mountains' southeast flank, west-central Montana / Leslie B. Davis and Sally T. Greiser -- Paleoindian lithic procurement at the south fork of Everson Creek, southwestern Montana: a preliminary statement / Robson Bonnichsen, Marvin Beatty, Mort D. Turner, Joanne C. Turner, and Diane Douglas -- The foothills-mountains and the open plains: the dichotomy in Paleoindian subsistence strategies between two ecosystems / George C. Frison -- Along the Great Divide: Paleoindian archaeology of the high Colorado Front Range / James B. Benedict.

ISBN

0870812211
9780870812217
0870812467
9780870812460

LCCN

91040686

OCLC

ocm24848218
24848218
SCSB-1953700

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Princeton University Library