Ancient

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Deciphering Compositional Patterning in Plainware Ceramics From Late Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Sites in the Peninsular Ranges, San Diego County, California

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Patrick S. Quinn
Margie M. Burton
David Broughton
Sophie Van Heymbeeck
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 4, October 2013, pp. 779-789
Description
Compares previously looked at ceramics and field samples to three distinctive compositional groups and suggests cultural processes that may have contributed.
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An Early Man Site in Montana

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard G. Forbis
John D. Sperry
American Antiquity, vol. 18, no. 2, October 1952, pp. 127-133
Description
Examines various projectile points found at different occupational levels at the stie.
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Early Man Sites Near Concho, Arizona

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Fred Wendorf
Tully H. Thomas
American Antiquity, vol. 17, no. 2, October 1951, pp. 107-114
Description
Examines different styles of projectile points recovered from this area.
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Early Man Sites near Moab, Utah

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Alice P. Hunt
Dallas Tanner
American Antiquity, vol. 26, no. 1, July 1960, pp. 110-117
Description
Discusses earliest levels recovery of Folsom and Pinto Basin points.
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Eskimo Prehistory

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Robert A. McKennan
Arctic, vol. 23, no. 1, March 1970, pp. 65-66
Description
Book review of: Eskimo Prehistory by Hans-Georg Bandi, translated by Ann E. Keep.
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Finding the Giant Trilobite

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Graham Young
Inuktitut, no. 88, 2000, pp. 23-29
Description
Description of the fossil found near Churchill, Manitoba and the events that lead to the discovery.
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Flake Tools Stratified Below Paleo-Indian Artifacts

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Michael J. Reagan ... et al.
Science, vol. 200, no. 4347, New Series, June 16, 1978, pp. 1272-1275
Description

Stone Age tools found at the Shriver site in Missouri are evidence that occupations must be older than 13,000 B.C.

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Fletcher: A Paleo-Indian Site in Alberta

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Richard G. Forbis
American Antiquity, vol. 33, no. 1, January 1968, pp. 1-10
Description
Report of a bison butchering site dated between 5,000 and 9,000 B.C. that included Alberta and Scottbluff points.
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Folsom and Nepesta Points

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Charles Scoggin
American Antiquity, vol. 5, no. 4, April 1940, pp. 290-298
Description
Examines the claim that evidence of the Folsom complex was found in California.
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Folsom and Yuma Points from Saskatchewan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Edgar B. Howard
American Antiquity, vol. 4, no. 3, January 1939, pp. 277-279
Description
Reports on the similarities between Folsom points from Southern Saskatchewan and those found in the Southern United States.
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The Fossil Forest on Alex Heiberg Island

Articles » General
Author/Creator
David Grattan
Inuktitut, no. 85, 1999, pp. 74-78
Description
Describes the area and the efforts to preserve the delicate environment from the impact of visitors.
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Glacial Lake Levels and Eastern Great Lakes Palaeo-Indians

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Lawrence J. Jackson
Christopher Ellis
Alan V. Morgan
John H. McAndrews
Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, vol. 15, no. 5, 2000, pp. 415-440
Description
Investigates new water level information on sites that have been inundated by rising water levels.
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Health Conditions Before Columbus: Paleopathology of Native North Americans

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Debra L. Martin
Alan H. Goodman
The Western Journal of Medicine, vol. 176, no. 1, January 2002, pp. 65-68
Description
Overview of health conditions and the quality of life before contact and colonization suggest that iron deficiency and infectious diseases from common micro-organisms were the largest contributors to morbidity and mortality.
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Human Dorset Remains from Igloolik, Canada

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Niels Lynnerup
Jørgen Meldgaard
Jan Jakobsen
Arctic, vol. 56, no. 4, December 2003, pp. 349-358
Description
Presents information on four Dorset graves found on the Melville Peninsula in 1954 by the joint Danish National Museum and University of Pennsylvania Expedition.
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Identification of Anthropogenic Burning in the Paleoecological Record of the Northern Prairies: A New Approach

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Boyd
Annuals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 92, no. 3, September 2002, pp. 471-487
Description
Reconstructs a local grassland fire record for the past five thousand years and argues that it corresponds with the deliberate burning by the Senota-Besant (Plains Woodland) people.
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