Plains Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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Archaeomagnetic Dating On the Great Plains (1993)
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Cultural Evolutionism and Plains Archaeology (1986)
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The Jones-Miller Legacy Collection: Reexamining the 10,800 Year Old Bison Butchery Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones-Miller Site, located in the eastern Colorado tri-state area, was excavated in the mid-1970s. The Hell Gap complex site has been credited as the only bison butchery site of its kind and size in Colorado, yielding 41,000 Bison antiquus bones, 200 stone tools, 11,000 pieces of debitage, and hundreds of liters of soil samples. In 2017, the...
Were Turkeys Domesticated by Prehistoric Farmers in Oklahoma? (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Current Research on Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Domestication, Husbandry and Management in North America and Beyond" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo) were domesticated by Basketmaker peoples in the American Southwest and independently by prehispanic Mesoamerican groups, yet relatively little is known about the nature and origin of ancient Oklahoma turkeys. In this project, we analyze...
X-Ray Analysis of Mandibles from a 2000 Year-Old Bison Kill Site in Western Oklahoma (2015)
The seasonality of the kill events from Certain site in Beckham County, Oklahoma is determined through x-ray analysis of bison mandibles. The distribution of bison dentition at archaeological sites has been studied extensively to provide information about seasonality, age, diet, and migration patterns. Because bison calf at roughly the same time during the year, understanding the age at death determines the seasonality of the kill. Knowing the seasonality of a bison kill reveals when a site was...