Paleoindian Occupation Research Articles

The Agate Basin Site: A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. George C. Frison and Dennis J. Stanford. Academic Press, New York, 1982. xix + 403 pp., illus., biblio., index. 75.00 (cloth).

The Agate Basin Site: A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. George C. Frison and Dennis J. Stanford. Academic Press, New York, 1982. xix + 403 pp., illus., biblio., index. 75.00 (cloth). - Volume 50 Issue 1

Bison remains from a Lake Agassiz spit complex in the Swan River valley, Manitoba: depositional environment and paleoecological implications

Fossil bison remains have been recovered from gravels on an extensive spit complex situated between the Upper and Lower Campbell levels of Lake Agassiz in Swan River valley, western Manitoba. Three bone samples yielded radiocarbon dates of 10 300 ± 200 years BP (BGS-617), 9500 ± 150 years BP (BGS-840), and 9400 ± 125 years BP (BGS-887). These are the first dates obtained outside the southern basins of Lake Agassiz for the beginning of the Campbell phase.Local geomorphological evidence and the radiocarbon dates indicate that both Campbell beaches formed within a relatively short time during the Campbell phase. Aside from their geological significance, the bison remains and their depositional context are important for interpreting early Holocene ecology and Paleo-Indian occupation of the Swan River valley.

: The Agate Basin Site: A Record of the Paleo-Indian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains . George C. Frison, Dennis J. Stanford.

American AnthropologistVolume 86, Issue 2 p. 451-452 Free Access Archeology: The Agate Basin Site: A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. George C. Frison and Dennis J. Stanford Duane C. Anderson, Duane C. Anderson University of IowaSearch for more papers by this author Duane C. Anderson, Duane C. Anderson University of IowaSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1984 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1984.86.2.02a00470AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume86, Issue2June 1984Pages 451-452 RelatedInformation

The Paleo-Indian and Archaic Occupation of the Tucson Basin: An Overview

Evidence for the occupation of the Tucson Basin during the Paleo-Indian and Archaic periods is presented and assessed. There is at present no conclusive evidence for Paleo-Indian utilization of the...

Lake Theo: Late Quaternary Paleoenvironmental Data and New Plainview (Paleoindian) Date

Lake Theo (Briscoe County, Texas) is a well stratified archaeological site with Paleoindian (Folsom, Plainview) and Archaic occupations. It is located immediately east of the Southern High Plains (Llano Estacado). Preliminary field and laboratory investigations of site stratigraphy, soils, and microbiology were initiated in order to reconstruct late Quaternary paleoenvironments and date the Paleoindian occupations. The site contains a series of ten late Quaternary fluvial, and possible aeolian, deposits; and five soils (ranging from weakly to moderately well developed) formed therein. Radiocarbon ages of 9950 ± 110 years B.P. (SMU-866) and 9420 ± 85 years B.P. (SMU-856) were determined on humates from the bottom and top (respectively) of a thick, slowly aggrading, buried A horizon. The lower date is associated with a Plainview occupation and immediately overlies a Folsom occupation. Comparison of dates and associated stratigraphic and pedologic data with other sediments and soils in the section indicates that during the past 12,000 years, most sedimentation was relatively rapid and sporadic with intervening periods of soil formation of varying lengths. Citrate soluble phosphorous analysis of the soils did not show notable evidence of intense human occupation at any time. Invertebrates recovered indicate a progressive, local extirpation of terrestrial gastropods since Folsom times. The progression is a result of decreased effective precipitation. The most marked stage of extirpation occurred during deposition of Unit 7 (9000 to 8000 B.P.).

Flake Tools Stratified Below Paleo-Indian Artifacts

In northwest Missouri, Lithic stage flake tools struck from prepared cores have been excavated underlying a Paleo-Indian fluted point assemblage. These assemblages were in two different loesses of the last glaciation. Thermoluminescent analysis of stone tools dates the Paleo-Indian occupations at 8690 +/- 1000 B.C. and 12,855 +/- 1500 B.C.; the Lithic stage occupations must be older than 13,000 B.C. on the basis of geologic correlation, lithic analysis, and cultural stratigraphy.

The Sims Site: Implication for Paleoindian Occupation

A collection of lithic material from a site in the lower Tennessee River valley contains Paleoindian projectile points, uniface, and biface tools. Since few projectile points of Archaic types are included, there are implications that the rather extensive biface industry is of Late Paleoindian origin, contrary to the accepted idea that biface industries occur extensively only in post-Paleoindian occupations.

A PROJECTILE POINT FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF QUINDIO, COLOMBIA

Although it is generally accepted that any early migrations into South America must have passed through the territory of the modern country of Colombia, until a short time ago evidence of a Paleo-Indian occupation in that country was rare and restricted to chance finds. Archaeological investigations on the Caribbean coast, on the Sabana de Bogota, and in the Magdalena Valley have now uncovered a number of early sites, but information on the earliest cultures is still almost completely lacking for most of the country. Nonetheless, a general pattern of northern Andean Paleo-Indian cultures is emerging and a salient characteristic of them all seems to be a lack of stone projectile points. This has been interpreted by not a few as evidence of a well developed preprojectile point stage and presented by others as evidence that the later prehistoric custom of making lances and arrows entirely of wood has great time depth.1

: Paleoindian Occupation of the Central Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico . W. James Judge.

: Paleoindian Occupation of the Central Rio Grande Valley in New Mexico . W. James Judge.

Holocene Stratigraphy and Archeology in the Middle Missouri River Trench, South Dakota

Shoreline erosion along man-made lakes in North Dakota and South Dakota has led to the discovery of stratified preceramic cultural remains in an area where previously few such materials have been found. One important exposure, the Walth Bay site, contains a 7000-year sequence of alluvial and eolian deposition capping an abandoned Missouri River terrace. Three distinct soil profiles are associated with successive Late Paleo-Indian, Plains Archaic, and Plains Village Tradition occupations.

Hell Gap: Paleo-Indian Occupation on the High Plains

A resume of archaeological investigations in the Hell Gap Valley of southeastern Wyoming is presented. This research produced a detailed sequence of Plains PaleoIndian occupation of this section of the High Plains. from about 9000 to 5500 B.C. Identifiable complexes recognized include Goshen, Midland, Folsom, Agate Basin, Hell Gap, Alberta, Cody, and Frederick. Materials recovered represent camping activities rather than the better known game kills, and add dimension to our knowledge of Plains Paleo-Indian cultures.

Paleo-Indian Discoidal Stones from Southern South America

AbstractFour discoidal stone objects from southern Chile and Argentina can be attributed to the Paleo-Indian occupation of the region. Two were clearly associated with extinct horse and sloth and have a radiocarbon age of over 11,000 years. The other two are judged to be part of the same cultural complex.

Radiocarbon-Dated Archaeological Remains on the Northern and Central Great Plains

AbstractThis paper consolidates and summarizes the mass of radiocarbon determinations that has accumulated in various books, journals, newsletters, and manuscripts between 1951 and the spring of 1965. The dates are derived from Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Early Ceramic, and Late Prehistoric occupations in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Plains areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Included are 195 radiocarbon dates attesting to the presence of man on the Plains for the last 12,000 years.

A New Look at Geochronology in the Upper Great Lakes Region

AbstractA revision of Great Lakes geologic history involving the temporal position of Glacial Lake Algonquin and some post-Algonquin lake stages requires corresponding revision of certain archaeological interpretations. Indications are that the Paleo-Indian occupations of the upper Great Lakes area are somewhat earlier than heretofore supposed.

Fluted Points on the South Carolina Coast

AbstractFour points of Eastern Clovis type, found in Beaufort and Jasper counties at sites which also produce points of the Savannah River Archaic, are the first occurrence of fluted points on the southern Atlantic coast. The flint source was apparently the extensive quarries along Briar and Buckhead creeks located chiefly in Screven and Burke counties, Georgia. Other finds of fluted points along these streams indicate a paleo-Indian occupation within the drainage, but no sites are yet known.

A Fluted Point from Highland Guatemala

AbstractAn obsidian fluted point was found on the slope of a gorge near San Rafael, just west of Guatemala City. The point probably washed from hills on the thick beds of volcanics through which the gorge is cut. This would confirm previous beliefs that the paleo-Indian occupation of the area post-dates the volcanics. The San Rafael point resembles the fluted points from Costa Rica and Durango, Mexico, and Clovis forms from the eastern United States. Thus, paleo-Indian influences from the north into Middle America may have been of predominately eastern rather than western origins.

A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont

Since the scientific recognition of a paleo-Indian occupation of the Southwest and high Plains, beginning with the Folsom discoveries in 1927 (Roberts, 1940), the presence of man in the eastern United States prior to the earliest demonstrated cultures of the Archaic period has been suspected on the evidence of random surface finds of fluted points. Some of these artifacts have typologically been equated with the Clovis Fluted form (Krieger, 1947, pp. 10-13), while the greater number, showing considerable stylistic variability, have provisionally been designated “Ohio Fluted points” (Shetrone, 1936, pp. 240-256; Wormington, 1949, pp. 33-35).

PUMICE BEDS AT SUMMER LAKE, OREGON

A section of lake beds exposed in the sides of the trench of Ana River below Ana Spring near the northwest corner of Summer Lake basin in Lake County, Oregon, reveals near the top at least six layers of pumice. Four of these appear to record eruptions of Mount Mazama which led finally to the formation of Crater Lake; the source of the fifth is not known; the sixth is attributed to a later eruption of Newberry Crater. As certain layers in the associated sediments imply shallow-water conditions, these eruptions must have occurred when the last pluvial lake, formerly about 215 feet deep, had been reduced by evaporation to a depth of about 85 feet, probably about 14,000 years ago. The data appear to extend back the ages of Mount Mazama pumice, of Crater Lake, and of Paleo-Indian occupation of the area by several thousand years.