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Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian archaeology : from the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains / edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado.
Penn Museum Library E78.C6 F76 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleo-Indians--Colorado.
- Paleo-Indians.
- Paleoanthropology--Colorado.
- Paleoanthropology.
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Colorado.
- Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric.
- Colorado--Antiquities.
- Colorado.
- Antiquities.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2007]
- Summary:
- In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about the ancient people of Colorado. Colorado has been home to key moments in human settlement and in the scientific study of our ancient past. Readers interested in the peopling of the New World as well as those passionate about the methods and history of archaeology will find new material and satisfying overviews in this book.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Environmental and Archaeological Context
- 1 Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments of the Colorado Front Range / James P. Doerner 11
- 2 That Was Then, This Is Now: Seventy-Five Years of Paleoindian Research in Colorado / Bonnie L. Pitblado, Robert H. Brunswig 39
- Part 2 New Research at the Dent Clovis Site, Northeastern Colorado Plains
- 3 New Interpretations of the Dent Mammoth Site: A Synthesis of Recent Multidisciplinary Evidence / Robert H. Brunswig 87
- 4 Season of Death of the Dent Mammoths: Distinguishing Single from Multiple Mortality Events / Daniel C. Fisher, David L. Fox 123
- 5 Processing Marks on Remains of Mammuthus columbi from the Dent Site, Colorado, in Light of Those from Clovis, New Mexico: Fresh-Carcass Butchery Versus Scavenging? / Jeffrey J. Saunders 155
- 6 Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Dent Site Mammoth Teeth Calculus: New Evidence for Late Pleistocene Mammoth Diets and Environments / Linda Scott Cummings, Rosa Maria Albert 185
- Part 3 New Research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
- 7 Building a Picture of the Landscape Using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling: An Example from the KibRidge-Yampa Paleoindian Site, Northwestern Colorado / Linda Scott Cummings, R. A. Varney, Reid A. Bryson 195
- 8 Folsom Hearth-Centered Use of Space at Barger Gulch, Locality B / Todd A. Surovell, Nicole M. Waguespack 219
- 9 Paleoindian Cultural Landscapes and Archaeology of North-Central Colorado's Southern Rockies / Robert H. Brunswig 261
- 10 Angostura, Jimmy Allen, Foothills-Mountain: Clarifying Terminology for Late Paleoindian Southern Rocky Mountain Spear Points / Bonnie L. Pitblado 311
- Afterword: A Wyoming Archaeologist's Past and Present View of Wyoming and Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology / George C. Frison 39.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780870818905
- 0870818902
- OCLC:
- 154701416
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