Download or read book Paleoindian Mammoth and Mastodon Kill Sites of North America written by Jason Pentrail and published by Seven Ages. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of Clovis projectile points and tools at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico in the 1930s forever changed the face of American archaeology. This enigmatic technocomplex left stone and bone tools scattered among the remains of mammoths and mastodons across North and Central America. While it would require many years of rigorous research and excavation, the story of these early hunter-gatherers is slowly beginning to emerge. In this volume, Jason Pentrail gathers the data from the known paleoindian mammoth and mastodon kill sites and assembles it in a direct fashion for the general reader. This volume discusses each site with a focus on the discovery, evidence, and role each site plays in the ever-growing story of North America's earliest inhabitants.
Download or read book A Paleo Indian Mammoth Kill Site Near Silver Springs Florida written by Sandra Lee Rayl and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book First Floridians and Last Mastodons The Page Ladson Site in the Aucilla River written by S. David Webb and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the multidisciplinary results of an extensive underwater excavation in north Florida. This yielded the most complete results of interactions between early Paleoindians and late Pleistocene megafauna, in a rich environmental context in eastern North America. The data provides fundamental insights into "the Peopling of the Americas" and "The Extinction of the Megafauna". An excellent color photo section expresses the uniqueness of this project.
Download or read book Across Atlantic Ice written by Dennis J. Stanford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional—and often subjective—approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.
Download or read book Mastodon Mammoth and Man written by John Patterson MacLean and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Megafaunal Extinctions at the End of the Pleistocene written by Gary Haynes and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume contains summaries of facts, theories, and unsolved problems pertaining to the unexplained extinction of dozens of genera of mostly large terrestrial mammals, which occurred ca. 13,000 calendar years ago in North America and about 1,000 years later in South America. Another equally mysterious wave of extinctions affected large Caribbean islands around 5,000 years ago. The coupling of these extinctions with the earliest appearance of human beings has led to the suggestion that foraging humans are to blame, although major climatic shifts were also taking place in the Americas during some of the extinctions. The last published volume with similar (but not identical) themes -- Extinctions in Near Time -- appeared in 1999; since then a great deal of innovative, exciting new research has been done but has not yet been compiled and summarized. Different chapters in this volume provide in-depth resumés of the chronology of the extinctions in North and South America, the possible insights into animal ecology provided by studies of stable isotopes and anatomical/physiological characteristics such as growth increments in mammoth and mastodont tusks, the clues from taphonomic research about large-mammal biology, the applications of dating methods to the extinctions debate, and archeological controversies concerning human hunting of large mammals.
Download or read book Paleoindian proboscidean Interactions in the Terminal Pleistocene written by Madeline E. Mackie and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite nearly 100 years of research, there is still heated debate about the importance of proboscideans (mammoths and their kin) for early New World foraging populations. While archaeologist have proposed more than 75 proboscidean kill/butchery sites, only 14 are widely accepted. Clarification on the number of proboscidean processing sites can contribute to a variety of debates in Paleoindian archaeology including the subsistence focus of Clovis groups, the overkill hypothesis, and the social and economic implications of hunting megafauna. Using three analyses, this dissertation examines the North American record of proposed proboscidean kill/butchery sites to examine the criteria used to evaluate these sites and understand how archaeological methods affect interpretations. The first analysis revisits a debated mammoth kill, the La Prele Mammoth site (48CO1401), located in Converse County, Wyoming. Recent excavations at the site show a cultural occupation associated with the mammoth based on the geologic context, expanded artifact assemblage, and direct evidence of association, resolving previous doubts. Given that the spatial association of artifacts with proboscidean remains can be incidental, the second paper establishes the chances accidental associations between artifacts and faunal remains. A computer simulation uses empirically informed densities and sizes of archaeological and natural proboscidean death sites to establish the probability of an accidental artifact association. The simulation shows that the rates of artifact and proboscidean spatial associations observed in the archaeological record are unlikely to have occurred by chance alone. The final analysis uses the records of widely accepted and proposed proboscidean kill/butchery sites to determine how archaeological methods can influence the visibility of the lithic assemblage associated with megafauna butchery. Many of the proposed, but questioned, proboscidean kill/butchery sites were excavated using methods that resulted in incomplete lithic assemblages, making their evaluation difficult. Some of these proposed sites may be kill/butchery sites but will remain ambiguous until more research or excavations are completed. Each of these analyses shows how current methods for evaluating proboscidean kill/butchery sites may overlook real cases of proboscidean processing, which has implications for our understanding of life during the Clovis period.
Download or read book Mastodon Mammoth and Man written by John Patterson MacLean and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book explores the relationship between early humans and the megafauna of North America, including mastodons and mammoths. J.P. Maclean provides a detailed and engaging account of these prehistoric interactions and the ways in which humans hunted, studied, and imagined these incredible animals. With illustrations and maps throughout, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in paleontology or the history of our planet. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Preceramic Occupations Along the North Shore of Lake Ontario written by Arthur C. B. Roberts and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A preceramic cultural chronology for the north shore of Lake Ontario is synthesized with eastern North American archaeological and paleoenvironmental research. Analysis include projectile point identifications, lithic metric attributes, raw material sources and site characteristics.
Download or read book Domebo written by Frank C. Leonhardy and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A PERSISTENT PLACE A LANDSCAPE APPROACH TO THE PREHISTORIC ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE GREENLEE TRACT IN SOUTHERN OHIO written by Matthew Purtill and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-06-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term archaeological investigations at the Greenlee Tract by Gray & Pape, Inc., revealed significant evidence for over 10,000 years of Native American utilization of southern Ohio's ancient landscape. Using a siteless landscape approach, this book presents a comprehensive summary of all past work. Various topics are discussed including landscape development, environmental patterns and cycles, settlement patterning and subsistence strategies, and social organization. Several unique archaeological findings are reported upon including the discovery of one of the largest Middle-Late Woodland (A.D. 300-600) villages in the region; the documentation of a rare open-aired, Early Woodland (700 - 100 B.C.) ceremonial structure; and some of the best evidence for Middle Archaic (6500-4000 B.C.) occupation found anywhere in the state. Rarely has such an array of topics been addressed in a single monograph project.
Download or read book The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age written by D. Shane Miller and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1996, the University of Alabama Press published a prodigious benchmark volume, The Paleoindian and Early Archaic Southeast, edited by David G. Anderson and Kenneth E. Sassaman. It was the first to provide a state-by-state record of the Paleolithic and early Archaic eras (to approximately 8,000 years ago) in this region as well as models to interpret data excavated from those eras. It summarized what was known of the peoples who lived in the Southeast when ice sheets covered the northern part of the continent and mammals such as elephants, saber-toothed tigers, and ground sloths roamed the landscape. In the United States, the Southeast has some of most robust data on these eras. The American Southeast at the End of the Ice Age is the updated, definitive synthesis of current archaeological research gleaned from an array of experts in the region. The volume is organized in three parts: state records, the regional perspective, and perspective and future directions. State-by-state chapter overviews of the eras are followed by chapters with regional coverage on lithics (point types), submerged archaeology, gatherers, megafauna, chipped-stone technology, and spatial demography. Chapters on ethical concerns regarding the use of data from avocational collections, insight from outside the Southeast, and considerations for future research round out the volume. The contributors address five questions: When did people first arrive? How did they get there? Who were they? How did they adapt to local resources and environmental change? Then what?"--
Download or read book Compilation report of mammoth and mastodons written by and published by LeAnn Rathbone. This book was released on with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America written by Renee Beauchamp Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.
Download or read book The Colby Mammoth Site written by George C. Frison and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Occurrence of Mammoth and Mastodon Remains Around Hudson Bay written by Robert Bell and published by Rochester [N.Y.] : Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1898 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clovis Lithic Technology written by Michael R. Waters and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct their methods of tool production. Along with the faunal material that was also discarded in their prehistoric campsite, these stone, or lithic, artifacts afford a glimpse of human life at the end of the last ice age during an era referred to as Clovis. The area where these people roamed and camped, called the Gault site, is one of the most important Clovis sites in North America. A decade ago a team from Texas A&M University excavated a single area of the site—formally named Excavation Area 8, but informally dubbed the Lindsey Pit—which features the densest concentration of Clovis artifacts and the clearest stratigraphy at the Gault site. Some 67,000 lithic artifacts were recovered during fieldwork, along with 5,700 pieces of faunal material. In a thorough synthesis of the evidence from this prehistoric “workshop,” Michael R. Waters and his coauthors provide the technical data needed to interpret and compare this site with other sites from the same period, illuminating the story of Clovis people in the Buttermilk Creek Valley.
