Plains Anthropologist back issues from February 2007:
Note from the President
Feb 01, 2007; ... We start the new year with high hopes and expectations for our society. Under the watchful eye of the treasurer, Dale Henning, and ever-searching editor, Richard Drass, this new year offers optimism and encouragement that the Plains Anthropological Society is as strong as ever. We take that ...
2006 Distinguished Service Award
Feb 01, 2007; ... Dr. Stanley A. Ahler is a deserving recipient of this honor. He's spent a lifetime in the pursuit of archaeology, during which time he's made substantial and lasting contributions to Plains prehistory and to archaeological studies in general. Stan was bom in Florence, Alabama on ...
Turner Rockshelter: A Blackfeet Redoubt in the Heart of Crow Country
Feb 01, 2007; ... Turner Rockshelter, located on the southeast flank of central Montana's Bull Mountains, contains extensive panels of Biographic rock art showing both triangular and rectangular body style humans, mature style horses, battle pit fortifications, and a characteristic type of decorated halter. By ...
Early Woodland Black Sand Occupation in the Lower Missouri Valley, Western Missouri
Feb 01, 2007; ... Archaeologists have long been concerned about the incomplete record of Early Woodland evidence in the Midwest. Many broad geographic areas have not even been superficially surveyed, much less systematically researched for evidence of early ceramic cultures, which include Marion and various Black ...
Ceramics from the Firehole Basin Site and Firehole Phase in the Wyoming Basin
Feb 01, 2007; ... The Firehole Basin site (48SW1217), excavated in 1976 and 1977, is the type site for the Firehole phase proposed by Metcalf for the Wyoming Basin of central and western Wyoming. Given the dearth of excavated sites for the period from 700-300 B.P., and dated ceramics in Wyoming Basin in general, ...
Susana R. Katz 1944-2006
Feb 01, 2007; ... Memorial She was born Suzanne Linda Rothstein on November 6, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. She always wanted to be an archaeologist. In elementary school she would wake up early to watch the archaeology course on Sunrise Semester at 6:00 a.m. The program started with the instructor ...
Erratum
Feb 01, 2007; ... Plains Anthropologist, Vol. 51, No. 198, pp. 185-197, 2006 Avonlea and Athabaskan Migrations: A Reconsideration Dale A. Walde ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The author would like to acknowledge the assistance and cooperation of Margaret Hanna and Ian Brace in providing access to ...
Evidence for Paleoindians in Wisconsin and at the Skare Site
Feb 01, 2007; ... The Skare site, situated along the Yahara River in southern Wisconsin, has produced evidence of human activity spanning from Paleoindian times to the early Euro-American settlement of Wisconsin. During recent excavations at the site, two Paleoindian artifacts, the base of a Folsom biface and a ...
The Yellow Creek Cache: Implications for Understanding Caching Decisions
Feb 01, 2007; ... The Yellow Creek cache was found on a bluff overlooking a small tributary of the Washita River in central Oklahoma. The cache contained a large number of tools, bifaces, and debitage of Florence-A chert. The source area for Florence-A chert is about 225 km to the northeast in south central ...
FOLSOM New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill
Feb 01, 2007; ... FOLSOM New Archaeological Investigations of a Classic Paleoindian Bison Kill. By DAVID J. MELTZER, University of California Press, Berkeley. 2006. 387 pages, 183 illustrations, 68 tables, $55.00 (cloth). This book is about the Folsom site-type site of the Folsom culture and eponym of the ...
Art of the Osage/A History of the Osage People
Feb 01, 2007; ... Art of the Osage. By GARRICK BAILEY and DANIEL C. SWAN, with contributions by JOHN W. NUNLEY and E. SEAN STANDINGBEAR. Saint Louis Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle. 2004. xi + 221 pp., 50 figures, 108 catalog plates, notes, references, index. $40.00 (cloth, ...
Lake Records of Northern Plains Paleoindian and Early Archaic Environments: The "Park Oasis" Hypothesis
Feb 01, 2007; ... Fossil pollen and other proxies from lake sediments are used to reconstruct past dynamics in vegetation, climate and local availability of potable water for the northeastern Plains, thereby providing a landscape context to re-assess local Paleoindian and Early Archaic subsistence strategies and ...
Going Indian
Feb 01, 2007; ... Going Indian. James Hamill. University of Illinois Press, Champaign IL, 2006. ix + 216 pp., appendix, bibliography. $ 40 (Cloth), $20 (Paper). James Hamill is an emeritus professor of anthropology, recently retired from Miami University in Ohio. A previous book (Ethno-Logic: The ...
Paleoamerican Origins Beyond Clovis
Feb 01, 2007; ... Paleoamerican Origins Beyond Clovis. Edited by ROBSON BONNICHSEN, BRADLEY T. LEPPER, DENNIS STANFORD, and MICHAEL R. WATERS. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, 2005. ix + 368 pp., 84 figures, 24 tables, index.$60.00 (cloth). Paleoamerican Origins Beyond Clovis is the second ...