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Stone Artifacts (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. C. Steege.

The second series of descriptions of Stone Artifacts brings to us category “B”, the “Grinding Artifacts.”

Stone Artifacts (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. C. Steege.

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: Ceremonial and Problematical Artifacts (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. C. Steege.

Artifacts in this category include Pendants, Gorgets, Amulets, Effigies, Pipes, Discoidals and Perforated Disks.

Stone Artifacts: Classifications (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. C. Steege.

In determining just what classification should be given a certain artifact, let us consider first of all how it was used by the ancient man who made it. He obviously manufactured his artifacts to fulfill certain needs such as a type for scraping, another for grinding, still another for cutting, etc.

Stone Artifacts: Cutting Artifacts (2007)

DOCUMENT Full-Text L. C. Steege.

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...

Survey of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene Mammal Fauna of Wyoming (1974)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elaine Anderson.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.

Sweetwater Gold: Wyoming's Gold Rush 1897-1871 (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marion McMillan Huseas.

Symbolism and Ritualistic Uses of the Bison Skull Among the Plains Indians of North America (2003)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jacquelin E. St. Clair.

Archaeological data show acts which may at first appear to involve merely the acquisition of food are, indeed, interwoven with spiritual beliefs and emotions. Bison kill sites have been investigated to gain information regarding hunting strategies and food appropriation. However, some of the sites have yielded additional information taking us beyond the procurement of food, widening our view to include religion, rituals and ceremonialism. The Cooper site (Bement 1999) offers early evidence of...

Taliaferro Site: 5000 Years of Prehistory In Southwest Wyoming (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. S. Smith. S. D. Creasman.

Two New Projectile Point Types: Duncan and Hanna Points (1953)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

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.

US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Wyoming (1998)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kate Schaumann. Major William H. Saunders Saunders.

This document reports the history of cultural resource inventories and historic properties evaluations on WY ARNG facilities, lists archaeological sites a historic buildings recorded within facility boundaries, discusses historic contexts and provides a list of Native American tribes that the Wyoming State Historical Preservation Office (WYSHPO) says may be culturally affiliated to archaeological sites, historic properties or collections. All artifacts collected by the WY ARNG's contractors were...

Vanishing Chinese Historical Sites (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dudley Gardner.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Towards a More Inclusive Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Archaeological excavations in Wyoming have helped to illuminate where Chinese people lived and what their lives looked like in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, but physical remains of historic Chinese sites dating between 1867 and 1949 are rare. Understanding why historic structures and cemeteries in...

Varieties of Corner-Notched Arrow Points In Wyoming (2021)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David Eckles.

An examination of corner-notched arrow points in Wyoming is presented. Emphasis will be on points commonly included in the Rose Spring/ Rosegate series with an analysis of other cornernotch arrow points which are probably not part of the Rose Spring/Rosegate series. Data were gathered from both excavated and dated components as well as from surface recorded sites in Wyoming. These data were searched in the Wyoming SHPO Cultural Records Office databases from the early 1970s through 2014 (the 2014...