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Screen Bags.csv (2020)
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Selected Projectile Point Types of the United States II (1953)
In this document, Richard Wheeler discusses ten projectile point types, and one pseudo-type, that were not addressed by Robert E. Bell and Roland Scott Hall in their description and illustration of forty-five projectile point types of the United States, published in 1953. Two types, Duncan and Hanna, recorded in Wheeler’s document were recently named and defined by Wheeler. Another, designated Agate Basin, will be described on the basis of specimens made available by Dr. Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr....
The Sequence in Northern Plains Prehistory (2007)
The State of Wyoming is located in a region known to archaeologists as the northern Plains. Through the medium of archaeology much information has been gathered and compiled which has given us a rather complex picture of the area’s first inhabitants. Although much of the evidence has come from outside our borders, many of the characteristic artifacts are displayed from surface collections which proves the existence of these people in Wyoming also. The exact date of man’s entry into the New World...
Stone Artifacts (2007)
With exception of projectile points, the chopping artifacts were probably the most widely used implements of all the Tribes and Cultures in the United States.
Stone Artifacts: Cutting Artifacts (2007)
At the beginning, any sharp edge of a thin flake was considered sufficient for a good cutting edge. When the edge became dulled and chipped from use, the flake was discarded and another picked up either as found in nature or struck off from some suitable material. There was no standard for size or shape; the main requirements were that it be large enough to be held in a hand and sufficiently thin, sharp and strong enough to cut skin, flesh and wood. This type of cutting artifact undoubtedly...
Tools.csv (2020)
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Topo Shots.csv (2020)
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Two New Projectile Point Types: Duncan and Hanna Points (1953)
Expounding on new names, definitions, and categorizations of two point types found in the Keyhole Reservoir, Richard P. Wheeler compares the newly identified Duncan and Hanna Points to McKean Points found in similar contexts within three occupation sites in Northeastern Wyoming.