Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-87081-976-6 | Cloth: 978-0-87081-890-5 | Paper: 978-1-60732-354-9 Library of Congress Classification E78.C6F76 2007 Dewey Decimal Classification 970.01
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado.
The editors introduce the research with scientific context. A review of seventy-five years of Paleoindian archaeology in Colorado highlights the foundation on which new work builds, and a survey of Colorado's ancient climates and ecologies helps readers understand Paleoindian settlement patterns.
Eight essays discuss archaeological evidence from Plains to high Rocky Mountain sites. The book offers the most thorough analysis to date of Dent--the first Clovis site discovered. Essays on mountain sites show how advances in methodology and technology have allowed scholars to reconstruct settlement patterns and changing lifeways in this challenging environment.
Colorado has been home to key moments in human settlement and in the scientific study of our ancient past. Readers interested in the peopling of the New World as well as those passionate about the methods and history of archaeology will find new material and satisfying overviews in this book. Contributors include Rosa Maria Albert, Robert H. Brunswig, Reid A. Bryson, Linda Scott Cummings, James Doerner, Daniel C. Fisher, David L. Fox, Bonnie L. Pitblado, Jeffrey L. Saunders, Todd A. Surovell, R. A. Varney, and Nicole M. Waguespack.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert H. Brunswig is professor emeritus of anthropology and university research fellow at the University of Northern Colorado. Bonnie L. Pitblado is the Robert and Virginia Bell Endowed Chair and professor of anthropological archaeology at the University of Oklahoma.
REVIEWS
"Everything you might want to know about Paleoindians in Colorado, in great detail. With rich material on environmental reconstructions, the volume will be useful to archaeologists working with paleoclimatological specialists, and those struggling to make something of lithic scatter sites. Summing up: recommended."
—A.B. Kehoe, CHOICE Magazine
"...[T]he four chapters on the Dent site contain important new data never published elsewhere. The book contains plenty of new ideas regarding Paleoindian organization in the Colorado Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain. As such, it belongs in the library of those interested in Colorado and Paleoindian archaeology as well as archaeologists interested in interdisciplinary human ecological research." —Jason M. LaBelle, Great Plains Research
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
Part 1: Environmental and Archaeological Context
1 Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments of the Colorado Front Range-James P. Doerner
2 That Was Then, This Is Now: Seventy-Five Years of Paleoindian Research in Colorado-Bonnie L. Pitblado and Robert H. Brunswig
Part 2: New Research at the Dent Clovis Site, Northeastern Colorado Plains
3 New Interpretations of the Dent Mammoth Site: A Synthesis of Recent Multidisciplinary Evidence-Robert H. Brunswig
4 Season of Death of the Dent Mammoths: Distinguishing Single from Multiple Mortality Events-Daniel C. Fisher and David L. Fox
5 Processing Marks on Remains of Mammuthus columbi from the Dent Site, Colorado, in Light of Those from Clovis, New Mexico: Fresh-Carcass Butchery Versus Scavenging?-Jeffrey J. Saunders
6 Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Dent Site Mammoth Teeth Calculus: New Evidence for Late Pleistocene Mammoth Diets and Environments-Linda Scott Cummings and Rosa María Albert
Part 3: New Research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
7 Building a Picture of the Landscape Using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling: An Example from the KibRidge-Yampa Paleoindian Site, Northwestern Colorado-Linda Scott Cummings, R. A. Varney, and Reid A. Bryson
8 Folsom Hearth-Centered Use of Space at Barger Gulch, Locality B-Todd A. Surovell and Nicole M. Waguespack
9 Paleoindian Cultural Landscapes and Archaeology of North-Central Colorado's Southern Rockies-Robert H. Brunswig
10 Angostura, Jimmy Allen, Foothills-Mountain: Clarifying Terminology for Late Paleoindian Southern Rocky Mountain Spear Points-Bonnie L. Pitblado
Afterword: A Wyoming Archaeologist's Past and Present View of Wyoming and Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology-George C. Frison
Index
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Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains
edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
University Press of Colorado, 2007 eISBN: 978-0-87081-976-6 Cloth: 978-0-87081-890-5 Paper: 978-1-60732-354-9
As the Ice Age waned, Clovis hunter-gatherers began to explore and colonize the area now known as Colorado. Their descendents and later Paleoindian migrants spread throughout Colorado's plains and mountains, adapting to diverse landforms and the changing climate. In this new volume, Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado assemble experts in archaeology, paleoecology-climatology, and paleofaunal analysis to share new discoveries about these ancient people of Colorado.
The editors introduce the research with scientific context. A review of seventy-five years of Paleoindian archaeology in Colorado highlights the foundation on which new work builds, and a survey of Colorado's ancient climates and ecologies helps readers understand Paleoindian settlement patterns.
Eight essays discuss archaeological evidence from Plains to high Rocky Mountain sites. The book offers the most thorough analysis to date of Dent--the first Clovis site discovered. Essays on mountain sites show how advances in methodology and technology have allowed scholars to reconstruct settlement patterns and changing lifeways in this challenging environment.
Colorado has been home to key moments in human settlement and in the scientific study of our ancient past. Readers interested in the peopling of the New World as well as those passionate about the methods and history of archaeology will find new material and satisfying overviews in this book. Contributors include Rosa Maria Albert, Robert H. Brunswig, Reid A. Bryson, Linda Scott Cummings, James Doerner, Daniel C. Fisher, David L. Fox, Bonnie L. Pitblado, Jeffrey L. Saunders, Todd A. Surovell, R. A. Varney, and Nicole M. Waguespack.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Robert H. Brunswig is professor emeritus of anthropology and university research fellow at the University of Northern Colorado. Bonnie L. Pitblado is the Robert and Virginia Bell Endowed Chair and professor of anthropological archaeology at the University of Oklahoma.
REVIEWS
"Everything you might want to know about Paleoindians in Colorado, in great detail. With rich material on environmental reconstructions, the volume will be useful to archaeologists working with paleoclimatological specialists, and those struggling to make something of lithic scatter sites. Summing up: recommended."
—A.B. Kehoe, CHOICE Magazine
"...[T]he four chapters on the Dent site contain important new data never published elsewhere. The book contains plenty of new ideas regarding Paleoindian organization in the Colorado Plains and Southern Rocky Mountain. As such, it belongs in the library of those interested in Colorado and Paleoindian archaeology as well as archaeologists interested in interdisciplinary human ecological research." —Jason M. LaBelle, Great Plains Research
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado
Part 1: Environmental and Archaeological Context
1 Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments of the Colorado Front Range-James P. Doerner
2 That Was Then, This Is Now: Seventy-Five Years of Paleoindian Research in Colorado-Bonnie L. Pitblado and Robert H. Brunswig
Part 2: New Research at the Dent Clovis Site, Northeastern Colorado Plains
3 New Interpretations of the Dent Mammoth Site: A Synthesis of Recent Multidisciplinary Evidence-Robert H. Brunswig
4 Season of Death of the Dent Mammoths: Distinguishing Single from Multiple Mortality Events-Daniel C. Fisher and David L. Fox
5 Processing Marks on Remains of Mammuthus columbi from the Dent Site, Colorado, in Light of Those from Clovis, New Mexico: Fresh-Carcass Butchery Versus Scavenging?-Jeffrey J. Saunders
6 Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Dent Site Mammoth Teeth Calculus: New Evidence for Late Pleistocene Mammoth Diets and Environments-Linda Scott Cummings and Rosa María Albert
Part 3: New Research in the Colorado Rocky Mountains
7 Building a Picture of the Landscape Using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling: An Example from the KibRidge-Yampa Paleoindian Site, Northwestern Colorado-Linda Scott Cummings, R. A. Varney, and Reid A. Bryson
8 Folsom Hearth-Centered Use of Space at Barger Gulch, Locality B-Todd A. Surovell and Nicole M. Waguespack
9 Paleoindian Cultural Landscapes and Archaeology of North-Central Colorado's Southern Rockies-Robert H. Brunswig
10 Angostura, Jimmy Allen, Foothills-Mountain: Clarifying Terminology for Late Paleoindian Southern Rocky Mountain Spear Points-Bonnie L. Pitblado
Afterword: A Wyoming Archaeologist's Past and Present View of Wyoming and Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology-George C. Frison
Index
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