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Folsom obsidian conveyance at the Great Divide Paleoindian sites, Wyoming Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-07-07 Spencer R. Pelton, Chase Mahan, William E. Scoggin
We present a study of obsidian artifacts found in Folsom contexts from the Great Divide Paleoindian sites (Great Divide Basin, Wyoming) to evaluate Paleoindian mobility patterns in the central and ...
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A linear mound concentration in the Central Des Moines River valley Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-03-21 William Whittaker
This report summarizes the discovery of ca. 200 linear mounds along 40 km of the Des Moines River in central Iowa. Many of these mounds were mapped and recorded piecemeal over a century, but their ...
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Plains Indian German silver from Oklahoma: the Smithsonian’s Davis collection Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Candace S. Greene
German silver jewelry has a historic and ongoing role in the social and ritual life of Indian people on the Southern Plains. A remarkably well-documented collection of German silverwork assembled i...
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A DStretch discovery: A Crow calling card pictograph at Writing-on-Stone Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-03-12 James D. Keyser
DStretch enhancement technology has enabled rock art researchers to identify and record previously obscure pictographs at thousands of sites worldwide. Recent DStretch enhancement of photographs fr...
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In Memoriam: Mary Lou Larson (1954–2022) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Julie Francis
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Pipe forms and regional interaction spheres in the Great Plains and U.S. Southwest: A view from Scott County Pueblo (14SC1) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Margaret E. Beck, Sarah J. Trabert, Matthew E. Hill Jr.
We use pipe forms at Scott County Pueblo (14SC1), a seventeenth-century multiethnic community in western Kansas with Ndee (Dismal River) and Puebloan residents, to consider the community’s position...
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2024-01-02 Glenn S.L. Stuart
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Plains Anthropological Society 2022 Distinguished Service Award Fern E. Swenson Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Amy Bleier, Paul Picha
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 266, 2023)
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The Calf Creek Horizon, A Mid-Holocene Hunter-Gatherer Adaptation in the Central and Southern Plains of North America Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Robert Lassen
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 266, 2023)
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80th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Cassie Vogt
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Plains Anthropological Society 2022 Distinguished Service Award Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Leland Bement
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 266, 2023)
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A cross-cultural study of the life history of stone pipes in the plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Alison M. Hadley
This study documents the life history of Native American stone pipes in the Plains from the eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Source material derives from twenty-first century interviews, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric documents. Interviews with Native American pipestone carvers at Pipestone National Monument in Minnesota were conducted in 2013. Additional documentation is from
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Correctionville and the Oneota Tradition: The Western Oneota and the Correctionville Phase Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-06-30 Lauren W. Ritterbush
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 266, 2023)
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In memoriam: Fern Elaine Swenson (1954–2022) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Amy C. Bleier, Paul R. Picha
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 265, 2023)
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President’s message Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-06-05 John Hedden
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 265, 2023)
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The best laid plans: Assemblage formation and abandonment at two house sites in the Central Plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-05-31 Brad Logan
Systematic, fine-grained data recovery and spatial analysis facilitate interpretation of household assemblage formation and abandonment at two late prehistoric (AD 1000–1500) lodges in the Central Plains: the Scott and Phil sites in northeastern and north-central Kansas, respectively. This is based on patterns in lodge design, construction, storage, and domestic activities inferred from the distribution
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Thirteenth and fourteenth century ceramic decoration and social groups in the central great Plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-05-02 Douglas B. Bamforth
This paper considers possible social groups and interactions on the thirteenth through fifteenth century central Plains by examining patterns of ceramic rim face and upper body decoration. My analysis tabulates design motifs by site and/or locality, identifying a basic dichotomy between the northern / western area of the central Plains and the southern / eastern area, along with a third distinct pattern
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Archaeological Narratives of the North American Great Plains: From Ancient Pasts to Historic Resettlement Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Sherman L. Johns
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 68, No. 265, 2023)
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Analysis of the protohistoric period fauna from the Scott County Pueblo site in western Kansas Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Faith D. Wilfong, Matthew E. Hill Jr
The Scott County Pueblo (14SC1) is a seven-room masonry pueblo situated on the High Plains in western Kansas. Recent analyses identify at least two occupations prior to the Pueblo Revolt of 1680: an earlier Dismal River Complex (ancestral Apache, Ndee) occupation dating between AD 1470 and 1640, and a later multiethnic occupation of ancestral Apache (Ndee) and Rio Grande Puebloan peoples dating around
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Investigations at Goodson Shelter, Oklahoma Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Brian N. Andrews, Metin I. Eren, Ryan Breslawski, Susan M. Mentzer, Briggs Buchanan, David Meltzer
Goodson Shelter is a small sandstone rockshelter site located in Craig County, Oklahoma, situated alongside a minor tributary stream. Excavations at Goodson Shelter yielded over 2 m of largely intact deposits, which, based on radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating, along with a substantial record of temporally diagnostic projectile points, indicate the site was periodically occupied
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Phipps Site Ceramics: A Typological, Morphological, and Contextual Analysis of a Mid-twentieth Century Legacy Collection Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Margaret E. Beck
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 264, 2022)
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Practical Heritage Management: Preserving a Tangible Past Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2023-01-09 Spencer R. Pelton
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 264, 2022)
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People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Timothy Weston
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 263, 2022)
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Local freshwater shell bead production at Cluny Fortified Village (EePf-1), south-central Alberta Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Margaret Patton, Shalcey Dowkes
Beads in many forms were used as decorative items on the Great Plains during the historic and prehistoric periods. Cluny Fortified Village (EePf-1) on the Northwestern Plains is a unique Late Prehistoric period site where excavations have revealed over 1,600 shell artifacts including beads, bead preforms or “blanks,” and substantial waste from shell bead production. These shell artifacts provide insight
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Red pigment in the Central Plains: A Pawnee case at Kitkahahki Town Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Margaret E. Beck, Brandi L. MacDonald, Jeffrey R. Ferguson, Mary J. Adair
James Murie, early twentieth century ethnographer and member of the Pawnee Nation, once wrote that the “things that are most acceptable to the Pawnee gods are smoke, fat, paint, and flesh” (Murie 1981:466). Here we describe red paint at Kitkahahki Town, a late eighteenth–early nineteenth-century Kitkahahki Pawnee village in north-central Kansas. Using laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass
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Ógle Wakȟáŋ Kiŋ: Relational materiality and the Lakota Ghost Dance of 1890 Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Fredrik Jansson
This article examines the materiality of the Ghost Dance shirt – ógle wakȟáŋ kiŋ – among the Lakota, and its associated symbols and functions. By cross-referencing sources on the Ghost Dance to sources on traditional Lakota belief and ritual, it is shown that the practice of interrituality – the use of established ritual elements and acts in novel contexts – enabled traditional ritual dynamics and
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Dating stone arrangements using luminescence: More data from the northern Great Plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-08-26 James K. Feathers, Stephen Aaberg, Joshua Chase, Margaret Kennedy, Lynelle Peterson, Brian Reeves, Scott Wagers
Luminescence dating of rocks and sediments associated with various anthropogenic rock arrangements has the potential to provide age information for these hard-to-date features. This study applies infrared stimulated luminescence (IRSL) to sediments under rocks and to the rocks themselves from tipi rings and other features from the northern Plains. Dates are provided for 27 sediment and 5 rock samples
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In memoriam: David Mayer Gradwohl (1934–2022) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Nancy Osborn Johnsen, Stephen C. Lensink
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 263, 2022)
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Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-06-28 Alison M. Hadley
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 263, 2022)
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Northern plains late precontact and historic period winter sand dune usage by bison and human populations Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Timothy Panas
In past examinations of bison and human seasonal migration on the Northern Plains, ecology has played a central role. The definition of ecological regions, however, has only recognized the presence of either parkland or grassland regions. While some works do recognize the small role of “anomalous” landscapes within the grassland such as sand dunes, no detailed examination of these areas has yet to
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Obituary, W. Raymond Wood, 1931–2020 Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-20 Thomas D. Thiessen
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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The 79th meeting of the Plains Anthropological Conference Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-19
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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Decentring archaeology: Indigenizing GIS models of movement on the plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Terry Beaulieu
Avenues of travel employed by past people have often become obscured by both natural and human processes. Relocating them with traditional archaeological field methods is thus difficult, and other approaches, such as relying on historic documents or uncritically employing GIS analyses have often been found to be problematic due to their colonizing impacts. That does not mean, however, that all archaeological
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Riding to the rescue: an addition to the Plains Biographic rock art lexicon Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Michael Paul Jordan, Timothy McCleary, Linea Sundstrom
Depictions of two riders mounted on a single horse appear in Plains Biographic rock art at five sites. Comparison of these images with late nineteenth century Plains Indian drawings on hide and paper indicates that the pictographs and petroglyphs commemorate instances in which mounted warriors rescued comrades who had been unhorsed in battle. Ethnographic material confirms that several Plains Indian
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Fencing is perishable: reply to “Don’t fence them in” Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Marcel Kornfeld, J.M. Adovasio, Mary Lou Larson, Judson B. Finley
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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The Greater Plains: Rethinking a Region’s Environmental Histories Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Joe Alan Artz (retired)
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 263, 2022)
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Recent zooarchaeological investigations at the Boarding School site (24GL302), Glacier County, Montana Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-04-28 Brandi Bethke
This article presents an analysis of the bison assemblage recovered from excavations at the Boarding School site (24GL302), located in Glacier County, Montana. Excavations at the site took place following the inadvertent discovery of a large bone bed uncovered during foundation construction for a new school by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The assemblage represents contexts associated with both the
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Don’t fence them in: comment on “perishable artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Montana” Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Linea Sundstrom
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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Site occupation spans at Middle Ceramic Antelope Creek phase sites in the Southern Plains of Texas Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-03-22 C. Britt Bousman, Rob Curran, Phil Dering, Michael Mudd, James K. Feathers, Abby Payton, Holly Meier, Christopher R. Lintz
Twenty-one AMS radiocarbon and optical stimulated luminescence assays from Early Ceramic (Plains Woodland) and Middle Ceramic (Antelope Creek) periods are reported from sites on the Cross Bar Ranch in Potter County, Texas including the first direct date on Phaseolus sp. remains in the Southern Plains. Calibrated radiocarbon dates and a single luminescence assay are used to evaluate site occupation
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President's message Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-03-21 Kelly J. Pool
(2022). President's message. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 67, No. 261, pp. 1-2.
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Restructuring family production and reproduction on the Rocky Boy's Reservation, 1916–1934 Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Gregory R. Campbell
During the early reservation era federal policies were crafted and implemented with the overarching objective to progress Native peoples along the social evolutionary ladder toward self-sufficiency and societal integration into the fabric of Euro-American civilization. A central area of directed social change among reservation communities was American Indian families and households. Federal bureaucrats
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Late prehistoric period fired clay objects and zoomorphic figurines in the eastern Powder River Basin of Wyoming Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Gene Munson
Excavation of Late Prehistoric period sites in the eastern Powder Basin of Wyoming has uncovered broken fired clay zoomorphic figurines and fired clay objects. Fired clay figurines and objects in association with a local manifestation referred to as the Thunder Basin phase first appear around AD 600. Shortly after AD 1000 the local use of small diameter cylindrical pit hearths/ovens ceased along with
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Obituary, George Carr Frison (1924–2020) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Julie Francis
(2022). Obituary, George Carr Frison (1924–2020) Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 67, No. 261, pp. 93-98.
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Plains Anthropological Society 2021 Distinguished Service Award Mary Adair Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-02-15
(2022). Plains Anthropological Society 2021 Distinguished Service Award Mary Adair. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 67, No. 261, pp. 99-102.
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The Mountaineer Site: A Folsom Winter Camp in the Rockies Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Todd A. Surovell
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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Plainview: The Enigmatic Paleoindian Artifact Style of the Great Plains Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-11-23 Matthew G. Hill
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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mitoni niya nhiyaw – nhiyaw-iskww mitoni niya Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-11-19 David Meyer
Published in Plains Anthropologist (Vol. 67, No. 262, 2022)
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Obituary, James O. Marshall III (1934–2021) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Virginia A. Wulfkuhle, Marlin F. Hawley
(2021). Obituary, James O. Marshall III (1934–2021) Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 66, No. 259, pp. 269-275.
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A rediscovered beveled osseous rod: Clarification of the archaeological record Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Marcel Kornfeld, Kathleen Holen, Steven Holen
Elongated osseous implements, often referred to as osseous or bone rods, are a defining characteristic of Early Paleoindian cultures of North America. A rod found in the Lindenmeier collection at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, was radiocarbon dated and the results published several years ago, demonstrating its Mid Paleoindian association. The specimen highlighted the importance of museum collections
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Dry Creek medicine bundle, Northeastern Wyoming: Patterns, outliers, and the importance of small sites Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-05-19 John Greer, Mavis Greer
A cluster of two nonlocal flakes and two crystals is believed to be the remaining contents of a small personal medicine bundle carried by an individual and lost. Characteristics and arrangement of the four artifacts indicate they are an uncommon assemblage for the region and are distinct from surrounding prehistoric sites. Therefore, the site is considered an outlier to the general regional pattern
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Mobility and ceramic paste choice: Petrographic analysis of prehistoric pottery from northeastern Colorado Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-05-13 Mary F. Ownby, Jason M. LaBelle, Halston Pelton
Pre-contact Native American sites in northeastern Colorado typically yield only a few sherds per site (if present), thus little information is known regarding ceramic manufacture by highly mobile groups in this area. Over the past fifty years, systematic archaeological research in Larimer County has generated a large sample of pottery for detailed study. Petrographic analysis of forty samples from
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Florence-A chert end scrapers from the Lasley Vore (34TU65), Deer Creek (34KA3) and Longest (34JF1) sites and the eighteenth-century southern Plains hide trade Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Susan C. Vehik, Richard R. Drass, Stephen M. Perkins, Sarah Trabert
The importance of stone end scrapers in southern Plains artifact assemblages increased from AD 1200 to the mid-1700s. With Native involvement in the French hide trade, beginning in the early eighteenth century, end scrapers of Florence-A chert underwent a series of changes designed to lessen the costs of hide production (Vehik et al. [2010]. The Plains Hide Trade: French Impact on Wichita Technology
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Changing patterns of stylistic diversity in Blackfoot biographic art across the nineteenth century Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Stephen J. Lycett, James D. Keyser
During the nineteenth century, biographic art was used to depict events representing a warrior's most prominent accomplishments. These compositions were narrative in form, designed to be read by anyone familiar with the conventions embedded within their animated scenes. Accordingly, these artifacts are genuine historical documents, which – as part of a chronological sequence – record true a history
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The geographic origin of Clovis technology: Insights from Clovis biface caches Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-03-11 Alan R. Schroedl
Multiple hypotheses have been advanced for the geographic origin of the Clovis technocomplex. Several competing hypotheses are considered in relation to the distribution of Clovis caches. Clovis caching behavior is interpreted as a strategy for maximizing exploration and migration rather than an embedded strategy associated with an annual foraging round. Based on this analysis, it is hypothesized that
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Reviewers 2020 Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-02-11 Robert J. Hoard
(2021). Reviewers 2020. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 66, No. 258, pp. 171-171.
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Obituary, Solveig A. Turpin (1936–2020) Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Leland C. Bement
(2021). Obituary, Solveig A. Turpin (1936–2020) Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 66, No. 258, pp. 175-178.
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Bayesian analysis of the chronology of the Lynch site (25BD1) and comparisons to the Central Plains Tradition and Central Plains Oneota Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Carlton Shield Chief Gover, Douglas B. Bamforth, Kristen Carlson
This paper presents a series of new radiocarbon dates on the Lynch site (25BD1), an Initial Coalescent site in northeastern Nebraska, and takes a Bayesian approach to examining them in three contexts. First, we consider what they tell us about the chronology of occupation at the site itself. Second, we combine them with dates on other sites in the Ponca Creek drainage to consider the chronological
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Perishable artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Montana Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Marcel Kornfeld, J. M. Adovasio, Mary Lou Larson, Judson B. Finley
Perishable artifacts are rare finds in the Northwest Plains and the adjacent Rocky Mountains and any addition to the inventory makes a significant contribution. In the case of perishable objects from Last Canyon Cave in southern Montana, this is particularly true as one of the objects is unique to the region, a sandal. In this paper we describe the two items from Last Canyon, discuss their regional
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Mortars, maize, and Central Plains tradition farmers Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Douglas B. Bamforth
Plains archaeologists have referred to a class of features they have labelled mortar holes at least since the 1940s. These features are typically postholes identified in locations in the floors of houses that seem unlikely to have supported the weight of the house’s roof. Instead, researchers suggest that these holes once held wooden mortars used to process maize and other materials. These references
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New discoveries of Vertical Series and Foothills Abstract rock art at Writing-on-Stone, DgOv-2, southern Alberta Plains Anthropologist Pub Date : 2021-02-01 Michael Turney, Landon Bendiak, Jack W. Brink
Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park and the surrounding region is home to one of the largest collections of rock art on the Great Plains. The painted and carved rock art images have been classified as overwhelmingly belonging to the established Plains Biographic and Plains Ceremonial traditions. Images associated with two lesser known Plains traditions, Vertical Series and Foothills Abstract, have not