The Agate Basin Site

The Agate Basin Site
Title The Agate Basin Site PDF eBook
Author George C Frison
Publisher Percheron Press
Pages 430
Release 2014-12-31
Genre History
ISBN

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George Frison and Dennis Stanford's Agate Basin monograph is not only a classic of Plains paleoindian archaeology, but also of multidisciplinary research, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. Lucid presentation of meticulously excavated and analyzed sediments, bones, and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of the sights, sounds, and smells of Paleoindian life on the High Plains-from brutal winters and blistering summers, to killing and butchering bison, and to making lethal weaponry. As Matthew Hill writes in his new prologue, "Not merely an important volume of the Frison canon, Agate Basin stands as a foundational document in modern Americanist archaeology and a major accomplishment in American science." Originally published by Academic Press in 1982.

Shadows on the Trail

Shadows on the Trail
Title Shadows on the Trail PDF eBook
Author John Bradford Branney
Publisher
Pages 282
Release 2013-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781612961910

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Shadows on the Trail takes place on the plains and mountains of Texas and Colorado at the end of the Ice Age, a time of escalating temperatures, melting glaciers, and large mammal extinctions. It was a time when small bands of humans fought to survive in a violent and unpredictable world. This is a tale of three prehistoric tribes whose paths collide, culminating into an emotional thriller filled with the devastating forces of nature, predatory animals, and human emotion. The seed for Shadows on the Trail sprouted on an early summer morning in 2010 on a northern Colorado ranch where the author found an Ice Age stone tool made from a red and gray striped rock from a prehistoric rock quarry from the Panhandle of Texas. How did this stone tool end up in a prehistoric campsite in northern Colorado? Who made it? What was he or she like? What happened on its journey from Texas to northern Colorado? Since it was impossible to ask the prehistoric maker of the stone tool these questions, the author wrote his version of this remarkable journey.

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies
Title Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies PDF eBook
Author Marcel Kornfeld
Publisher Routledge
Pages 1055
Release 2016-06-16
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1315422077

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George Frison’s Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains has been the standard text on plains prehistory since its first publication in 1978, influencing generations of archaeologists. Now, a third edition of this classic work is available for scholars, students, and avocational archaeologists. Thorough and comprehensive, extensively illustrated, the book provides an introduction to the archaeology of the more than 13,000 year long history of the western Plains and the adjacent Rocky Mountains. Reflecting the boom in recent archaeological data, it reports on studies at a wide array of sites from deep prehistory to recent times examining the variability in the archeological record as well as in field, analytical, and interpretive methods. The 3rd edition brings the book up to date in a number of significant areas, as well as addressing several topics inadequately developed in previous editions.

Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites

Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites
Title Understanding Stone Tools and Archaeological Sites PDF eBook
Author Brian Patrick Kooyman
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 220
Release 2000
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780826323330

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Covers manufacturing techniques, lithic types and materials, reduction strategies and techniques, worldwide lithic technology, production variables, meaning of form, and usewear and residue analysis.

Bones, Boats & Bison

Bones, Boats & Bison
Title Bones, Boats & Bison PDF eBook
Author E. James Dixon
Publisher UNM Press
Pages 340
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780826321381

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This revolutionary synthesis dispels the stereotype of big game hunters following mammoths across the Bering Land Bridge, while painting a vivid picture of marine mammal hunters, fishers, and general foragers colonizing the New World.

The Seedskadee Project

The Seedskadee Project
Title The Seedskadee Project PDF eBook
Author Dwight L. Drager
Publisher
Pages 662
Release 1986
Genre Archaeological surveying
ISBN

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Hunters of the Recent Past

Hunters of the Recent Past
Title Hunters of the Recent Past PDF eBook
Author Leslie B. Davis
Publisher Routledge
Pages 420
Release 2014-10-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1317598342

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One of a series of more than 20 volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986, which brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. This book considers prehistoric and more recent manifestations of human hunting behaviour, with a general emphasis on communal hunting. It demonstrates that the combination of archaeological, ethnographic and ethnohistorical approaches provides a researched basis for consideration of the topic on worldwide, regional, and local scales. It includes theoretical and methodological issues, within a context of enquiry, original data presentation, and discussion. It is of interest to archaeologists, anthropologists and ethnohistorians.