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The Big Black site (32DU955C) : a Folsom complex workshop in the Knife River flint quarry area, North Dakota / edited by Jerry D. William.
Penn Museum Library E99.F65 B54 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Folsom culture.
- Big Black Site (N.D.).
- Folsom culture--North Dakota--Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--North Dakota--Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge.
- Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge (N.D.)--Antiquities.
- Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge (N.D.).
- North Dakota--Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 299 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University Press, [2000]
- Contents:
- 1. Project Overview / Jerry D. William 1
- Report Organization 2
- 2. Background Information / Jerry D. William 3
- Project Setting 3
- Project History 7
- Culture History 7
- Present Environment 7
- 3. Research Design / Jerry D. William 11
- 4. Site Description and Field Work / Jerry D. William 15
- Site Description 15
- Previous Investigations 15
- Field Methods 17
- Scheduling 18
- 1993-1994 Investigations 22
- Summary of Field Work 32
- 5. Geologic Studies and Natural Stratigraphy / M. E. Timpson 33
- 6. Cultural Stratigraphy and Analytic Unit Structure / Jerry D. William 45
- Diagnostic Artifacts and Radiocarbon Dates 45
- Vertical Distributions of Artifacts 48
- Analytic Units 63
- 7. Analysis of Artifacts from Surface Collections / E. J. Feiler 77
- Stone Tools 77
- Chipped Stone Flake Debris 89
- Other Material Classes 90
- Technology and Patination 93
- Spatial Analysis 93
- 8. Pottery From Site 32DU955C / S. A. Ahler 111
- Introduction and Analytic Methods 111
- Description of the Sample 111
- Distribution of the Pottery 113
- 9. Vertebrate Remains from the Big Black Site / Alice M. Emerson 117
- Research Objectives 117
- Methods of Recovery and Analysis 117
- General Description of the Site Faunal Assemblage 118
- Assessing Assemblage Contemporaneity of Large and Small Mammal Components 120
- Evidence of Cultural Association 127
- Evidence of Natural Association 133
- Characterization of Prehistoric Environmental Change 134
- Characterization of Prehistoric Subsistence 136
- 10. Features / Jerry D. William 139
- Archaic Component 139
- Folsom Component 139
- 11. Stone Tools from Post-Folsom and Mixed Contexts / Jerry D. William 151
- Post-Folsom and Mixed Context Collection 151
- Stone Tools 151
- 12. Folsom Stone Tools / Jerry D. William 169
- Folsom Stone Tools 169
- Folsom Fluted Point Production 175
- 13. Site Discussion and Summary / Jerry D. William 231
- Late Prehistoric Component 231
- Archaic Component 236
- Folsom Component 239
- Late Folsom Occupation: Block 2 243
- Early Folsom Occupation: Block 2 248
- Block 3 258
- Block 4 262
- Block 5 Folsom 265
- Comparative Information 267
- Report Summary 276
- Appendix A Big Black (32DU955C) Paleoethnobotanical Analysis 289
- Procedures 289
- Results 289.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0874222419
- OCLC:
- 45532465
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