Wyoming Archaeologist 2007
Part of: Wyoming Archaeological Society
Site Name Keywords
Lindenmeier •
McKean Site •
Ventana Cave •
pictograph cave •
Fort McKinney •
Firehole Basin •
48SW1217 •
Hogsback Site •
48UT2516 •
Sandia Cave
Other Keywords
Spanish Diggings •
Northern Plains •
Rocky Mountains •
Pleistocene •
Mississippi Valley •
Pueblo •
wyoming basin •
percussor •
sweetwater county •
undifferentiated prehistoric
Culture Keywords
Undifferentiated Native American •
PaleoIndian •
Folsom •
Clovis •
Rose Spring •
Historic •
Shoshone •
Agate Basin •
Deadman Wash Phase •
Pine Spring Phase
Material Types
Chipped Stone •
Fauna •
Ground Stone •
Ceramic •
Fire Cracked Rock •
Metal •
Wood •
Dating Sample •
Human Remains •
Macrobotanical
Temporal Keywords
Middle Paleoindian •
Historic •
Late Prehistoric •
Late Paleoindian •
Late Archaic •
Early Archaic •
Early Paleoindian •
Modern •
Middle Archaic
Geographic Keywords
Wyoming •
United States •
New Mexico •
Colorado •
Texas •
Alberta •
Arizona •
Oklahoma •
Mexico •
Missouri
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Chipped Stone Artifacts (2007)
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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.
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Early Prehistoric Period: Clovis Points (2007)
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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.
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Early Prehistoric Period: Folsom Points (2007)
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<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....
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Early Prehistoric Period: Midland Points (2007)
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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.
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Early Prehistoric Period: Sandia Points (2007)
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Sandia points were first discovered in a cave in the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico and they derived their name from this location. Excavation of this cave was sponsored by the University of New Mexico and was started in February 1936.
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Fort McKinney Hospital Building Historic Graffiti Documentation Project December 11, 2004 (2007)
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The goal of the project described here was to document all graffiti, both historic and contemporary, as a means of preservation. The building is scheduled to undergo a major renovation which will effectively destroy any remnants of the building’s past. The recording project focused on the second floor, as that was where the bulk of the changes will be made.
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 1 (2007)
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 1
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 2 (2007)
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Front matter for Wyoming Archaeologist, Volume 51, Issue 2
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Hunter-Gatherer Mobility from the Early Archaic to the Late Prehistoric Period: Investigations at the Hogsback Site (48UT2516), a Housepit Site in Southwestern Wyoming (2007)
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This paper makes use of an in-depth analysis of cultural remains at the Hogsback site (48UT2516), an Archaic housepit site in southwestern Wyoming (see Figure 1), to explore a set of issues relating to hunter-gatherer mobility in the Archaic era. This site, which was reoccupied successively and almost continuously over a period of at least 4,000 years, provides an ample data set against which to discuss such topics as changing settlement patterns and subsistence strategies. In this paper, it is...
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Lithic Artifacts of the Firehole Basin Site (48SW1217) (2007)
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Despite the central role of the Firehole Basin site in the conception of the Firehole phase in the Wyoming Basin, the lithic assemblage has never been reported. Excavated in 1976 and 1977, the site yielded chipped and ground stone, pottery, abundant faunal remains dominated by pronghorn, and two radiocarbon dates (625 ± 50 and 645 ± 45 RCYBP). Identifiable projectile points from the excavations consist of two tri-notched, two side-notched, and three unnotched arrow points. A Rose Spring point...
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The Sequence in Northern Plains Prehistory (2007)
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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...
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Stone Artifacts (2007)
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The second series of descriptions of Stone Artifacts brings to us category “B”, the “Grinding Artifacts.”
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Stone Artifacts (2007)
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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.
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Stone Artifacts: Ceremonial and Problematical Artifacts (2007)
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Artifacts in this category include Pendants, Gorgets, Amulets, Effigies, Pipes, Discoidals and Perforated Disks.
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Stone Artifacts: Classifications (2007)
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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.
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Stone Artifacts: Cutting Artifacts (2007)
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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...
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Stone Artifacts: Hunting and Warfare: The War Club (2007)
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War clubs of some description were used during historic and prehistoric times by nearly all of the tribes of the Northwest Plains. These may be classified as two types.
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Stone Artifacts: Perforating Artifacts (2007)
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One of the most controversial of all the stone artifacts to be classified are the drilling types. Collectors will readily agree as to the identification of these artifacts, but, how many of these stone tools actually show any use as a drill?
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Stone Artifacts: Scrapers (2007)
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Scrapers are the most abundant of all the stone artifacts used by the Plains Indians. Since the skins of wild animals were used extensively for clothing, robes, moccasins and shelters, the preparation of these skins necessitated the use of great quantities of scrapers; hence their common occurrence throughout the Plains regions.