Redating the Jones-Miller Site: Multiple Hell Gap

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Jones-Miller Bison Kill site was excavated in the early 1970s is dated to approximately 8000 BCE. The age of the site was initially represented by only four radiocarbon dates, only one of which was from the bison bone bed while the remainder came from charcoal samples associated with the site. However, questions regarding how many butchering events are represented at the site have lingered due to the presence of varying seasonality’s of bison ages. Using NIR analysis, archaeologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science dated 27 bison mandibles, representing six age classes of bison, to determine the presence of multiple butchering events at the Jones-Miller Bison Kill site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37285.0