Dr. Dennis J. Stanford: A Legacy of Research in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology

Summary

I began my graduate studies in 1990, knowing I wanted to learn about the earliest human use of the Colorado Rocky Mountains. It became immediately clear that two decades of work by Dennis Stanford, much conducted with his research- and life-partner Pegi Jodry, contributed myriad bricks to the platform upon which I would construct my own body of work. Stanford’s research at early sites in Colorado spanned the chronological spectrum, from potentially pre-Clovis (Lamb Spring, Dutton and Selby), to Clovis (the Drake Cache), to Folsom (in the San Luis Valley), to Hell Gap (Jones-Miller), to the late Paleoindian Cody Complex (Claypool, Frasca and Nelson). Even more crucially to me, in 1992 he and Jane Day co-edited "Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies," which immediately became—and remains—my go-to reference for early human use of the Rocky Mountain landscape. Dennis published that book in part to honor the contributions of Marie Wormington and other Denver Museum of Natural History scholars to Paleoindian archaeology generally and Rocky Mountain Paleoindian archaeology specifically. My paper in turn honors the contributions of Dr. Dennis J. Stanford, without whom the research platform that has supported me for two decades would have been shaky indeed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 83rd Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (2018)

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Abstract Id(s): 22298