Middle Paleoindian (Temporal Keyword)
1-17 (17 Records)
Proper collections management is crucial to archaeology. Recent trends in conservation archaeology recognize the nonrenewable nature of archaeological sites and highlight the research potential of existing archaeological collections.
The Bozovich Family Archaeological Collection (1996)
The Bozovich family archaeological collection contains over 5,000 surface-collected artifacts from 712 sites in southwestern Wyoming during the period between 1932 and 1992. All the artifacts were cataloged with their own catalog number . Data were then entered into an IBM-PC computer using the Dbase III (r) software program. Specific objectives were to: 1. Place all artifacts into approximate archaeological time periods. 2. Make sets of tables for various time periods on: artifact types;...
A Brief Description of Helen Lookingbill's Southern Sublette County Collection (2000)
The Southern Sublette collection represents an array of characteristics within the Scottsbluff and Eden styles of the Cody Complex. There is also clear evidence of individual knapping styles within the identified cultural styles which can be attributed to the idiosyncratic behavior and technological constraints of the flint knapper and that person’s own level of expertise and choice of material. Because of the surface nature of each individual artifact found, lack of geologic context or...
Chipped Stone Artifacts (2007)
Implement making is a definite human characteristic. Since the beginning, primitive man made and used artifacts. Some were fashioned for tools; others for weapons; still others were made for ornamental and ceremonial purposes. One of the major tasks of an archaeologist is the collection and classification of these artifacts.
Clovis Testing at the Hell Gap Baars Locality: 2003-2004 (2004)
During the 2003 University of Wyoming field season (Lamberson et al. 2003), auger probes placed at the Baars Locality verified the buried paleosol extended northwest of the arroyo (Figure 3). Two one-by-one meter test units were established at the Baars Locality (14F42-18 and 14F38-24). Work on unit 14F42-18 was finished the 2003 summer while 14F38-24 was only partially excavated. In the spring of 2004, a small crew spent two days finishing 14F38-24, and also excavated two other test units...
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.
Early Prehistoric Period: Folsom Points (2007)
<html>One of the most controversial points of the Early Prehistoric Period was discovered eight miles west of the town of Folsom, New Mexico, in 1926. The discovery of artifacts associated with articulated bones of extinct mammals of Pleistocene Age came quite unexpectedly with the excavation of a fossil bison remains. Two fragments of artifacts were found in the loose dirt of the diggings. A third fragment was found sometime later still in position in clay surrounding a rib of one of the bison....
Early Prehistoric Period: Midland Points (2007)
The Midland point derives its name from the style of projectile points found at the Scharbauer site located near Midland, Texas. However, the Scharbauer site was not the first to produce these points.
Fracture Patterns of Bones in Archaeological Contexts: Significance of the Casper Site Materials (2005)
In the study of Paleolithic flaked bone tools, the most important criteria are the quality of preservation and completeness when we are trying to elucidate details of fracture on cylindrical bones. There are virtually no examples which adequately satisfy these criteria. We must use specimens which are as close to the ideal conditions. The close-to-the-ideal conditions are: 1) the bones are from sites where hunting of large mammals was carried out; 2) the site is considered or close to...
Latex Molds of Petroglyphs at Legend Rock and Torrey Lake, Wyoming (2015)
In 2015, a document titled BBHC Rock Art Project Phase I: Technicians Report was discovered in the McCracken Research Library at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. This document, never published, describes the making of latex molds at Wyoming petroglyphs sites. In the present article, we identify the individual petroglyphs molded during the project to alert others who might be studying the sites.
Results of the 2003 Hell Gap Investigation (2003)
Hell Gap (48G0305) is located in the Hell Gap Valley in Goshen County, Wyoming (Figure 1 ). The site contains at least five discrete localities (Figure 2) including remnants of a complete Paleoindian cultural sequence, from more than 11,000BP to 7 ,500 BP (IrwinWilliams et al. 1973). Initially investigated in 1959 by George Agogino of the University of Wyoming, the site was excavated by Agogino along with Henry Irwin, Cynthia Irwin, and J. O. Brew of Harvard University from 1961-1966. In...
Review of Hell Gap; A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies (2009)
Review of Hell Gap; A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies
Review of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies (2011)
Review of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies
Review of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country (2003)
Review of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art of the Black Hills Country
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...
Symbolism and Ritualistic Uses of the Bison Skull Among the Plains Indians of North America (2003)
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...
Ustinovka-VI Site: Recent Investigations of the Microblade Industries in the Maritime Region, Russian Far East (1995)
In 1993 and 1994, archaeologists from the Institute of History , Archaeology and Ethnography of the People of the Far East (Vladivostok, Russia), Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok, Russia), and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (Novosibirsk, Russia) investigated a new pre-ceramic (12-11,000 years B.P.) site, Ustinovka-VI, in the Maritime Region (Primorie), of the Russian Far East. Even the preliminary results of the excavations permit an interpretation of the assemblage of the...