The Pre-Ceramic Subsistence Patterns in the Great Plains

Author(s): Richard P. Wheeler

Year: 1952

Summary

In this document, Richard P Wheeler synthesizes in chart form knowledge of Early Man – or rather of pre-pottery making men – in the Plains area according to inferable subsistence patterns, in chronological order. On this level of anthropological abstraction, the task was not difficult because of the scarcity of known information. Wheeler’s perspective also includes a brief history of the development of American paleontology.

Cite this Record

The Pre-Ceramic Subsistence Patterns in the Great Plains. Richard P. Wheeler. Smithsonian Institution, River Basin Surveys. 1952 ( tDAR id: 391156) ; doi:10.6067/XCV84T6K9V

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Keywords

Culture
Clovis • Folsom • Llano Complex • PaleoIndian • Portales Complex

Material
Chipped Stone • Fire Cracked Rock • Ground Stone

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview

General
American Museum, New York • Archeologists • B. antiquus • B. taylori • Barnum Brown • Climatologists • Columbia University • Denver Museum • E. Mott Davis • Geographers • Geologists • Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Chicago • Jesse Dade Figgins • Paleobotanists • Paleontologists • Palynologists • University of Michigan • University of Nebraska • W.F. Libby • Yale University

Geographic Keywords
Angus, Nebraska • Clovis-Portales District, New Mexico • Dent, Colorado • Folsom, New Mexico • Great Plains • McLean, Texas • Miami, Texas • Naco, Arizona

Spatial Coverage

min long: -115.312; min lat: 28.59 ; max long: -93.779; max lat: 45.81 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Smithsonian Institution, Missouri Basin Project

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