Ice Age hunters of the Rockies

The ice age hunters of the Rocky Mountains were some of North America's earliest inhabitants. Although many scholars had long suspected that humans entered the Americas at an early date, no concrete proof existed until the find at Folsom, New Mexico, in 1926. There, J.D. Figgens of the Denver M...

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Other Authors: Stanford, Dennis J., Day, Jane Stevenson.
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: [Denver] : Niwot, Colo. : Denver Museum of Natural History ; University Press of Colorado, [1992]
Physical Description: xii, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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Table of Contents:
  • New World origins: new research from the Americas and the Soviet Union / Christy G. Turner II
  • Observations on the Late Pleistocene bone assemblage from the Lamb Spring site, Colorado / John W. Fisher, Jr.
  • New radiocarbon dates for some old Folsom sites: accelerator technology / C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Roelf P. Beukens, A.J.T. Jull, and Owen K. Davis
  • Stewart's Cattle Guard site: an analysis of bison remains in a Folsom kill-butchery campsite / Margaret A. Jodry and Dennis J. Stanford
  • The Hanson site and Folsom on the northwestern plains / Eric E. Ingbar
  • Recognition and interpretation of Folsom technological variability on the southern plains / Jack L. Hofman
  • Indian Creek Paleoindians: early occupation of the Elkhorn Mountains' southeast flank, west-central Montana / Leslie B. Davis and Sally T. Greiser
  • Paleoindian lithic procurement at the south fork of Everson Creek, southwestern Montana: a preliminary statement / Robson Bonnichsen, Marvin Beatty, Mort D. Turner, Joanne C. Turner, and Diane Douglas
  • The foothills-mountains and the open plains: the dichotomy in Paleoindian subsistence strategies between two ecosystems / George C. Frison
  • Along the Great Divide: Paleoindian archaeology of the high Colorado Front Range / James B. Benedict.