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The Certain Site is a Late Archaic site in Western Oklahoma that contains at least five arroyo bison trap kills totaling over 200 animals. Numerous bison bones from these kills exhibit evidence of butchering – cut marks, green bone breaks, embedded tools. The butchering sequences associated with each kill was identified through thorough examination of these butchering marks from the site’s various arroyo kill localities. Combined with previously identified seasonality estimates for each kill, I...
Early Prehistoric Period: Clovis Points (2007)
Clovis points have a wide range of distribution throughout the Northern Plains and Southern Plains regions. They derive their name from the city of Clovis, New Mexico, near which they were first discovered in 1932.
Reconceptualizing the Wichita Middle Ground in the Southern Plains (1600-1840 CE) (2020)
This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. The Southern Plains exchange system after 1600 CE was a complicated and fiercely competitive network of fluid alliances, rival interests, and conflict as Indigenous peoples were literally in the middle of overlapping cultural, economic, and physical power bases in the Southeast and Southwest. Although previous narratives surrounding these exchanges have focused on the trade in furs...