Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

Publication/Creation:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, 2007

Format:

Book

Edition:

1st ed.

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Full Title:

Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains / edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado

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Additional Author/Creators:

Pitblado, Bonnie L., 1968-
Brunswig, Robert H.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric--Colorado
Paleoanthropology--Colorado
Paleo-Indians--Colorado
Colorado--Antiquities

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1: Environmental and Archaeological Context; 1: Late Quaternary Prehistoric Environments of the Colorado Front Range; 2: That Was Then, This Is Now; Part 2: New Research at the Dent Clovis Site, Northeastern Colorado Plains; 3: New Interpretations of the Dent Mammoth Site; 4: Season of Death of the Dent Mammoths; 5: Processing Marks on Remains of Mammuthus columbi from the Dent Site, Colorado, in Light of Those from Clovis, New Mexico; 6: Phytolith and Starch Analysis of Dent Site Mammoth Teeth Calculus
Part 3: New Research in theColorado Rocky Mountains7: Building a Picture of the Landscape Using Close-Interval Pollen Sampling and Archaeoclimatic Modeling; 8: Folsom Hearth-Centered Use of Space at Barger Gulch, Locality B; 9: Paleoindian Cultural Landscapes and Archaeology of North-Central Colorado's Southern Rockies; 10: Angostura, Jimmy Allen, Foothills-Mountain; Afterword; Index

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Summary:

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.

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

General Note:

Description based upon print version of record.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9937012760302486

ISBN:

9780870819766
0870819763

OCLC Number:

923705006
475628061