folsom new archaeological investigations of a classic paleoindian bison kill jun 2006

[...]... data and analytical results of that investigation But it is more than that Because the data from the original investigations were never systematically or completely analyzed, let alone fully published, this is also a report on the 1920s excavations based on our analysis of curated faunal and archaeological collections The reanalysis of that material was an integral component of our recent fieldwork and... organization, and patterns of toolkit use, breakage, and maintenance, as well as what these data may reveal about where this group of hunters came from and where they may have been headed afterward These many and varied threads are then woven together in chapter 9, which summarizes and synthesizes what we know of what occurred at the Folsom site in Late Glacial times, using as a framework the archaeological. .. historical archaeology in the areas of the 1926–1927 and 1928 field camps (appendix C) During the “off-season” and afterward, there was laboratory analysis of the recovered remains (chapters 5–8), archival and historical work on the correspondence and field notes from the original investigations (chapters 2 and 4), and examination and analyses of the extant museum and private artifact and faunal collections... the discovery of the site, many Folsom- aged bison kills on the Great Plains were excavated and carefully analyzed and studied in detail (reviews in Frison 1991; Hofman and Graham 1998; Jodry 199 9a; Stanford 1999) As a result, considerable and valuable information was learned of Folsom hunting strategies, including a measure of the scale of the kills, season of predation, numbers of animals involved,... large bison kills like Folsom, despite their visibility and profound influence on our interpretations of Folsom period adaptations, represent less than 5% of all known Folsom localities (LaBelle, Seebach, and Andrews 2003; also Bamforth 1988; Frison, Haynes, and Larson 1996; Hofman and Todd 2001) Many of the questions about Folsom adaptations that have arisen over the years are a result of the increasing... the faunal remains recovered during our excavations Chapter 2 was originally written for a 1990 SAA symposium on Folsom archaeology I am especially grateful to the late Dorothy Cook Meade, daughter of Harold Cook, for reading and commenting on that manuscript, and for a most memorable afternoon of conversation with her and the late Grayson Meade at the Cook family ranch in Agate, Nebraska Tom Burch and... still another reason to return to Folsom, and that was its historical importance This was the place that forever changed American archaeology, and while I reopened investigations there with a long agenda of scientific goals and questions, detailed below, not far beneath the surface of that research plan was the inherent interest and challenge of understanding the site where, arguably, American archaeology... intact deposits, particularly ones that might inform on bison butchering, site structure, and activity areas, was appealing After all, the 1920s archaeologists and paleontologists were so keen to affirm the association of the artifacts with bison remains, and a Pleistocene bison kill was so novel, that little more was learned at Folsom than that humans were in America for a very long time In the decades... some of the points used at the site were obtained via exchange (Bamforth 1991; Hofman 1994; Meltzer 1989b) AR E TH E R E ANY AS SO CIATE D CAM P/ HAB ITATION AR EAS AT FOLSOM? Ethnoarchaeological (e.g., Fisher 1992; O’Connell, Hawkes, and Blurton-Jones 1992) and archaeological (Frison 1996; Hofman 1996:56, 62; Hofman, Amick, and Rose 1990; Jodry 1999b; Jodry and Stanford 1992; LaBelle, Seebach, and Andrews... surveys of the modern ecological, climatic, and geological context (chapter 3), extensive geological and geophysical studies (chapter 5), sampling for radiocarbon dating and paleoenvironmental and paleoclimatic indicators—including sediment coring of a nearby lake (chapters 5 and 6), archaeological surface survey and intensive excavations in a remnant of the bison bonebed (chapters 4, 7, and 8), and even . class="bi x0 y0 w0 h0" alt="" FOLSOM FOLSOM NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF A CLASSIC PALEOINDIAN BISON KILL DAVID J. MELTZER with contributions by MEENA BALAKRISHNAN DONALD A. DORWARD VANCE. www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2006 by the Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication. Cataloging-in-Publication Data Meltzer, David J. Folsom : new archaeological investigations of a classic Paleoindian bison kill / David J. Meltzer; with contributions by Meena Balakrishnan [et al.]. p.