Two acres of time : unearthing the ice age at the Byron Dig / Richard S. Laub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laub, Richard S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Byron Dig (Project).

Geology, Stratigraphic.

Great Lakes Region (North America)--Antiquities.

Great Lakes Region (North America).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Richard S. Laub tells the story of the Byron Dig, an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts. Recounting twenty-nine years of intensive excavation involving more than a thousand participants, he provides a comprehensive account of a working paleontological and archaeological field project.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

In Appreciation

Introduction

Prologue

Part I: Getting There

1. Discovery

Interlude 1: The American Mastodon

2. First Steps

3. Brigadoon

Part II: The Heroic Age (1983-1990)

4. First Try, 1983

5. Emerging Patterns

6. Friday's Footprint

Interlude 2: The Clovis People

7. Steady Going, and First Symposium

8. The Dig Matures (I)

9. The Dig Matures (II)

10. Calling Cards of Stone

Part III: New Terrain (1991-2001)

11. A Lucky Drought

12. Tools!

13. More Discoveries (I)

14. More Discoveries (II)

15. Of Death and Life

16. Second Symposium

Part IV: Exploding Pits (2002-2005)

17. Bonanza (I)

18. Bonanza (II)

19. Money Worries

Part V: Winding Down (2006-2011)

20. Into the Shallows I-Disappointment

21. Into the Shallows II-A Stirring of Hope

22. A Bolt from the Blue

23. To Where All Things Must Come

24. Some Parting Thoughts

Appendix A. Human Teeth and a Rib from the Hiscock Site, by Douglas W. Owsley

Appendix B. Hiscock Radiocarbon Dates, Corrected for Isotopic Fractionation

Appendix C. Uncorrected Radiocarbon Dates for Hiscock Samples Cited in Appendix B

Appendix D. Bibliography of Scientific Publications About the Hiscock Site

Notes

Specimen Number Index

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Laub, Richard S. Two Acres of Time

ISBN:

0-231-55662-4

OCLC:

1347023292