Things Forgotten: The Unique of the Hell Gap Site

Summary

Forager campsites are commonly thought of as locations where social activities occur, but most archaeologists focus on subsistence (butchery, processing), stone tool production and use, and how these systems relate to mobility strategies. The record is often silent when it comes to the behaviors incidental to what appears central economic endeavors. Often camps yield information beyond subsistence. Ochre, needles, beads, bone rods, structures, and context of various activities provide more holistic evidence of Paleoindian lifeways. Our paper considers implications of such remains at the stratified Pleistocene/Holocene boundary Hell Gap site.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 20044