Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nadine Navarro.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Opportunities to learn more about Clovis technological behavior at lithic material procurement and workshop sites are rare, particularly in the Southwest. The Blue Canyon site is a rare example of such a site—an artifact scatter covering some 16,000 m2 and consisting of Clovis projectile points and preforms, end scrapers, bifaces, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Kilby.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The West Mesa is an expansive eolian plain atop a basalt-capped terrace of the Rio Grande in central New Mexico. Seminal work carried out in the 1960s-1970s led to the identification of an abundant Paleoindian record, and the Rio Rancho site became the first Folsom camp to be excavated in the Middle Rio Grande Valley. The West Mesa...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ted Goebel.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bruce Huckell was a leader in the study of Clovis and Paleo-Indigenous technology in North America, and his research has strongly impacted our thinking on the subject, the lead author for 35 years. Here we present results of our ongoing study of the Clovis occupation of the southern Bonneville basin, Utah. First, at the Hell’n Moriah...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Mackie.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2014 and 2022 extensive excavations at the La Prele Mammoth site (48CO1401) have identified at least three hearth centered activity areas associated with a subadult Columbian mammoth. The archaeological deposits at the site (ca. 12,940) are found at least three meters below modern ground surface making it difficult to identify...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Huckell.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a brief retrospective of Bruce B. Huckell's life and career as told by Lisa W. Huckell, the person who knew him best.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcus Hamilton.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this presentation we review past, present, and future plans for archaeological field work at the Mockingbird Gap Clovis Site, New Mexico. Bruce Huckell was integral in gaining access to the site and the associated assemblages from an advocational archaeologist, Bob Weber, in the early 2000s. The site had been first investigated in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcel Kornfeld.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. First excavated in the 1960s, the Hell Gap site provided the backbone of North American Paleoindian chronology. Paleoindian complexes defined over the previous 30 years lacked solid evidence of temporal relationships. The new science of radiocarbon dating preceded the investigations of Hell Gap, but the solid carbon assaying and the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Ruth.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Survival in cold climates is as much about staying warm as it is about food, perhaps even more so. Hide working was not a secondary, optional activity during the ice age, but as necessary and indispensable as hunting. Paleoindigenous peoples, especially the very young and the very old, were in need of warm and dry clothing, bedding, and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Merriman.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northern Jornada del Muerto in south-central New Mexico is home to the Mockingbird Gap Clovis site and over 65 other Paleoamerican loci. Most of this record is concentrated along Chupadera Draw, the highest order drainage in the Jornada, and in proximity to a series of playas primarily near the margins of the basin. Understanding...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Reitze.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Estancia Basin of Central New Mexico contained a large Pluvial lake which desiccated during the terminal Pleistocene. Human occupation by Paleoindian groups was set against a backdrop of changing landscapes and resource availability. Beginning in the 1930s and 1940s the archaeological record of the basin contributed to early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Straus.

This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Following the Solutrean experiment in large, leaf-shaped, concave-base or shouldered projectile points in SW Europe during the Last Glacial Maximum (25-21 cal kya), there was a shift to Magdalenian (21-14 cal kya) hunting technology including antler points with microblade inserts tipping javelins propelled with spear-throwers. In El...