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AP555 Paleoindian Archaeology
READING LISTS
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Readings: Lists 1-6 are in Volume 1; Lists 7-12 are in Volume 2
List 1: (to be discussed Week 2)
Read the Class syllabus!!
Gero, Joan (1995) Railroading epistemology: Paleoindians and Women. In Interpreting Archaeology, edited by Hodder, et al., pp. 175-178.
Meltzer, David (1983) The Antiquity of Man and the Development of American Archaeology. In Advances in Archaeological Method and Theory, Vol. 8, edited by M.B. Schiffer, pp. 1-51. Academic Press, New York.
Meltzer, David (1991). On "Paradigms" and "Paradigm Bias" in Controversies Over Human Antiquity in America. In The First Americans: Search and Research, edited by T.D. Dillehay and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 13-49. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Hrdlicka, Arles (1907) Skeletal Remains Suggesting or Attributed to Early Man in North America. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 33. READ pp. 9-14, 98.
McGee, W.J. (1982)Man and the Glacial Period. American Anthropologist 6:85-95.
List 2: (to be discussed Week 3)
Brown, Barnum (1928). The Folsom Culture. Paper presented at the International Congress of Americanists. Unpublished MS on file, American Museum of History, Department of Paleontology, New York.
Cook, Harold (1927). New Geological and Paleontological Evidence Bearing on the Antiquity of Mankind in America. Natural History 27:240-247.
Cook, Harold (1947). Some Background data on the original "Folsom Quarry" Site, and on those Connected with its Discovery and Development. Unpublished MS on file, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver.
Figgins, F.M. (1927) Field Notes. Unpublished field notes on file, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver Colorado.
Figgins, J.D. (1927). The Antiquity of Man in America. Natural History 27:229-239
Kuhn, Thomas S. (1970). The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Second Edition. University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Read pp. 1-51.
Schwachheim, Carl (1927-28). Unpublished Diary.
Willey, G.R. and J.A. Sabloff (1993). A History of American Archaeology. Third Edition. W.H. Freeman and Company, New York. read pp. 96-151
Wormington, H.M. (1957) Ancient Man in North America. Fourth Edition. Denver Museum of Natural History Popular Series No. 4. Denver. Read pp. 23-31.
List 3: (to be discussed Week 4)
Barbour Erwin H. and C. Bertrand Schultz (1932) The Scottsbluff Bison Quarry and its Artifacts. Nebraska State Museum Bulletin 34:283-286.
Bird, Junius and Margaret Bird (1937).Human Artifacts in Association with Horse and Sloth Bones in Southern South America. Science 86:36-37.
Bliss, Wesley L. (1940). A Chronological Problem Presented by Sandia Cave, New Mexico. American Antiquity 5:200-201.
Brand, Donald D. (1940). Regarding Sandia Cave. American Antiquity 5(4):77-78.
Cotter, John Lambert (1937). The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits Near Clovis, New Mexico, Part IV--Report on Excavation at the Gravel Pit, 1936. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences 89:1-16.
Cotter, John Lambert (1938). The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits Near Clovis, New Mexico, Part VI--Report on Field Season of 1937. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences 90:113-117.
Figgins, J.D. (1933) A Further Contribution to the Antiquity of Man in America. Proceedings Colorado Museum of Natural History 12(2):4-8.
Hibbin, Frank C. (1937). Association of Man with Pleistocene Mammals in the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico. American Antiquity 4:260-263.
Hibbin, Frank C. (1943). Evidences of Early Man in Alaska. American Antiquity 8(3):254-259.
Howard, Edgar B. , Linton Satterthwaite, Jr., and Charles Bache (1941).Preliminary Report on a Buried Yuma Site in Wyoming. American Antiquity 7(1):70-74.
Howard, Edgar B. (1935). The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits Near Clovis, New Mexico. Part I -- Introduction. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy Natural Sciences 87:299-303.
Howard, Edgar B. (1943). Discovery of Yuma Points, in situ, Near Eden, Wyoming. American Antiquity 8(3):224-234.
Hurst, C.T. (1943). A Folsom Site in a Mountain Valley of Colorado. American Antiquity 8:250-253.
Meserve, F.G. and Erwin H. Barbour (1932). Association of an Arrow Point with Bison occidentals in Nebraska. Nebraska State Museum Bulletin 27(1):239-242.
Nelson, N.C. (1937). Notes on Cultural Relations Between Asia and America. American Antiquity 2(4):267-272.
Roberts, Frank H.H., Jr. (1935). A Folsom Complex: Preliminary Report on Investigations at the Lindenmeier Site in Northern Colorado. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 94(4).
Roberts, Frank H.H., Jr. (1936). Additional Information on the Folsom Complex: Report in the Second Seasons Investigations at the Lindenmeier Site in Northern Colorado. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 95(10).
Roberts, Frank H.H. (1943). A New Site. American Antiquity 8(3):300.
Schultz, C. Bertrand (1943). Some Artifact Sites of Early Man in the Great Plains and Adjacent Areas. American Antiquity (3):242-249.
List 4: (to be discussed Week 5)
Butler, Robert R. (1965). A Report on Investigations of an early Man site near Lake Channel, Southern Idaho. Tebiwa. 8(2):1-20.
Byers, Douglas (1954). Bull Brook--A fluted point site in Ipswich, Massachusetts. American Antiquity 19(4):343-351.
Davis, E. Mott (1953). Recent Data from Two Paleo-Indian Sites on Medicine Creek, Nebraska. American Antiquity 18(4):380-386.
Dick, H.W., and B. Mountain (1960). The Claypool Site: A Cody Complex site in Northeastern Colorado. American Antiquity 26(2):223-235.
Haury, Emil W., E.B. Sayles, and W.W. Wasley (1959). The Lehner Mammoth Site, Southeastern Arizona. American Antiquity 25(1):2-30.
Jepsen, Glenn L, (1953). Ancient Buffalo Hunters of Northwestern Wyoming. Southwestern Lore 19(2):19-25.
Mulloy, William T. (1959). The James Allen site near Laramie, Wyoming. American Antiquity 25(1):112-116.
Richie, W.A. (1953) A Probable Paleo-Indian Site in Vermont. American Antiquity 23:249-258.
Sellards, E.H. (1955). Fossil Bison and Associated Artifacts from Milnesand, New Mexico. American Antiquity 20(4):336-344.
Warnica, J.M. (1966). New Discoveries at the Clovis Site. American Antiquity 31(3):345-357.
Withoft, John (1952). A Paleo-Indian Site in Eastern Pennsylvania: An Early Hunting Culture. American Philosophical Society Proceedings 96:464-495.
West, F.H. (1967). The Donnelly Ridge Site and the Definition of an Early Core and Blade Complex in Central Alaska. American Antiquity 32(3):360-382.
List 5: (to be discussed Week 6)
Cotter, J.L. (1954). Indications of a Paleo-Indian Co-Tradition for North America. American Antiquity 20:64-67.
Forbis, Richard G. (1956). Early Man and Fossil Bison. Science 123(3191):327-328.
Giddings, J,L., Jr. (1954 Early). Man in the Arctic. Scientific American 190(6):82-89.
Haynes, C.V., Jr. (1964). Fluted Projectile Points: Their Age and Dispersion. Science 145:1408-1413.
Mason, R.J. (1962). The Paleo-Indian Tradition in Eastern North America. Current Anthropology 3(3):227-278.
Mayer-Oakes, William J. (1963). Early Man in the Andes. Scientific American.
Muller-Beck, H. (1966). Paleohunters in America: Origins and Diffusion. Science 152:1191-1210.
Preston, Douglas (1995). The Mystery of Sandia Cave. The New Yorker 71(16):66-83.
Wendorf, Fred, and James J. Hester (1962). Early Man's Utilization of the Great Plains Environment. American Antiquity 28(2):159-171.
List 6: (to be discussed Week 7)
Frison, G.C. (1974). Archaeology of the Casper Site. In The Casper Site: A Hell Gap Bison Kill on the High Plains, edited by G.C. Frison, pp. 1-111. Academic Press, New York.
Wheat, J.B. (1967). A Paleo-Indian Bison Kill. Scientific American 216(1):43-52.
Wheat, J.B. (1972). The Olsen-Chubbuck site: A Paleoindian Bison Kill. Memoirs of the Society for American Archaeology No. 26.
Read pp.1-2: Bison Kill -- A Reconstruction of the Olsen-Chubbuck Site
pp.15-20: Layout of Excavation;Excavation;Recording; Bone Preservation
pp. 85-124: Utilization of Bison in the Great Plains
pp.159-164: Comparisons and Conclusions
List 7: (to be discussed on week 9)
Sites and Regions IAgenbroad, Larry D. (1977). Climate Change and Early Man in Northwest Nebraska. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 117-125. The Museum Journal 18. West Texas Museum Association, Lubbock.
Agenbroad, Lary D. (1978). Cody Knives and the Cody Complex: A Reassessment. Plains Anthropologist 23:159-161.
Dawson, Jerry and Dennis Stanford (1975). The Linger Site: A Reinvestigation. Southwestern Lore 41(4):22-28.
Saunders, Jeffrey J. (1977). Lehner Ranch Revisited. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 48-64. The Museum Journal 18. West Texas Museum Association, Lubbock.
Frison, George C. (1977). Paleoindian Sites and Economic Orientations in the Big Horn Basin. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 97-116. The Museum Journal 18. West Texas Museum Association, Lubbock.
Frison, George C. (1978). Cultural Activity Associated with Prehistoric Mammoth Butchering and Processing. Science 194:728-730.
Frison, Georfe C. and Donald C. Grey (1979). Pryor Stemmed, a Specialized Paleo-Indian Ecological Adaptation. Plains Anthropologist 25(87):27-46.
Fulgham, Tommy and Dennis J. Stanford (1982). The Frasca Site: A Preliminary Report. Southwestern Lore 48(1):1-9.
Hester, James J. and James Grady (1977) Paleoindian Social Patterns on the Llano Estacado. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 78-96. The Museum Journal 18. West Texas Museum Association, Lubbock.
Irwin-Williams, Cynthia, Henry Irwin, George Agogino, and C. Vance Haynes, Jr. (1973). Hell Gap: Paleo-Indian Occupation on the High Plains. Plains Anthropologist 18(59):40-53.
Lahren, L. and R. Bonnichsen (1974). Bone Foreshafts from a Clovis Burial in Southwestern Montana. Science 186:147-150.
List 8: (to be discussed on week 10)
Sites and Regions II
Gramly, Richard Michael (1984). Kill Sites, Killing Ground and Fluted Points at the Vail Site. In New Experiments Upon the Record of Eastern Paleo-Indian Cultures, edited by R.M. Gramly, pp.110-121. Archaeology of Eastern North America 12.
Grimes, John R., William Eldridge, Beth G. Grimes, Antonio Vaccaro, Frank Vaccaro, Joseph Vaccaro, Nicolas Vaccaro, and Antonio Orsini (1984). Bull Brook II. In New Experiments Upon the Record of Eastern Paleo-Indian Cultures, edited by R.M. Gramly, pp.159-183. Archaeology of Eastern North America 12.
Frison, George C. (1982). Paleo-Indian Winter Subsistence Strategies on the High Plains. In Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel, edited by D.H. Ubelaker and H.J. Viola, pp. 193-201. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology 30.
Frison, George C. (1983). The Carter/Kerr McGee Paleoindian Site: Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research. American Antiquity 49(2):288-314.
Frison, George C., R.L. Andrews, James M. Adovasio, Ronald C. Carlisle, and Robert Edgar (1986). A Late Paleoindian Animal Trapping Net from Northern Wyoming. American Antiquity 51(2):352-361.
Hill, Matthew Glenn, Vance T. Holliday, and Dennis J. Stanford (1995). A Further Evaluation of the San Jon Site, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 40(154):369-390.
Meltzer, David J. (1988). Late Pleistocene Human Adaptations in Eastern North America. Journal of World Prehistory 2(1):1-52.
Meltzer, David J. (1993). Is There A Clovis Adaptation? In From Kostenki to Clovis: Upper Paleolithic--Paleo-Indian Adaptations, edited by O. Soffer and N.D. Praslov, pp. 293-310. Plenum Press, New York.
Soffer, Olga and Nikolai Dmitrievich Praslov (1993). Introduction: Fluted Points and Female Figurines Understanding Late Paleolithic People in the New and Old Worlds. In From Kostenki to Clovis: Upper Paleolithic--Paleo-Indian Adaptations, edited by O. Soffer and N.D. Praslov, pp. 3-14. Plenum Press, New York.
Tankersley, Kenneth B. (1998). Variation in the Early Paleoindian Economies of Late Pleistocene Eastern North America. American Antiquity 63(1):7-20.
Kunz, Michael L. and Reanier, Richard C. (1994). Paleoindians in Beringia: Evidence from Arctic Alaska. Science 263:660-662.
List 9: (to be discussed on week 11)
Lithic Technology
Wheat, Joe Ben (1977). Technology, Typology, and Use Patterns at the Jurgens Site. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by E. Johnson, pp. 126-139. The Museum Journal 18. West Texas Museum Association, Lubbock.
Bradley, Bruce and Dennis Stanford (1987). The Claypool Study. In The Horner Site: The Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex, edited by G.C. Frison and L.C. Todd, pp. 405-434. Academic Press, Orlando.
Goodyear, Albert C. (1989). A Hypothesis for the Use of Cryptocrystalline Raw Materials Among Paleoindian Groups of North America. In Eastern Paleoindian Lithic Resource Use, edited by C.J. Ellis and J.C. Lothrop, pp. 1-10. Westview Press, Boulder.
Hayden, B. (1981). Interaction Parameters and the Demise of Paleo-Indian Craftsmanship. Plains Anthropologist 27(96):109-124.
Meltzer, David (1989). Was Stone Exchanges Among Eastern North American Paleoindians? In Eastern Paleoindian Lithic Resource Use, edited by C.J. Ellis and J.C. Lothrop, pp. 11-39. Westview Press, Boulder.
Ellis, Christopher J. (1989). The Explanation of Northeastern Paleoindian Lithic Procurement Patterns. In Eastern Paleoindian Lithic Resource Use, edited by C.J. Ellis and J.C. Lothrop, pp. 139-164. Westview Press, Boulder
Bamforth, Douglas B. (1991). Population Dispersion and Paleoindian Technology at the Allen Site In Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers, edited by A. Motet-White and S. Holen, pp. 357-374. University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology No 19. Lawrence, Kansas
Hofman, Jack L. (1992). Recognition and Interpretation of Folsom Technological Variability on the Southern Plains. In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D.J. Stanford and J.S. Day, pp. 101-168. University Press of Colorado.
Hofman, Jack (1991). Folsom Land Use: Projectile Point Variability as a Key to Mobility. In Raw Material Economies Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers, edited by A. Motet-White and S. Holen, pp. 336-355. University of Kansas Publications in Anthropology No 19. Lawrence, Kansas.
Amick, Daniel S. (1996). Regional Patterns of Folsom Mobility and Land Use in the American Southwest. World Archaeology 27(3):411-426.
List 10: (to be discussed on week 12,)
Faunal Remains
Stanford, Dennis J. (1978). The Jones-Miller Site: An Example of Hell Gap Bison Procurement Strategy. In Bison Procurement and Utilization, edited by L.B. Davis and M. Wilson, pp. 90-97. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 14.
Wheat, Joe Ben (1978). Olsen-Chubbuck and Jurgens Sites: Four Aspects of Paleo-Indian Bison Economy. In Bison Procurement and Utilization, edited by L.B. Davis and M. Wilson, pp. 84-89. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 14.
Todd, L.C. (1987). Analysis of Kill-Butchery Bonebeds and Interpretation of Paleoindian Hunting. In The Evolution of Human Hunting, edited by M.H. Nitecki and D.V. Nitecki, pp. 225-266. Plenum Press, New York.
Jodry, M.A. and Dennis J. Stanford (1992). Stewarts Cattle Guard Site: An Analysis of Bison Remains in a Folsom Kill-Butchery Campsite. In Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies, edited by D.J. Stanford and J.S. Day, pp. 101-168. University Press of Colorado.
Carlson, David L. and D. Gentry Steele (1992). Human-Mammoth Sites: Problems and Prospects. In Proboscidean and Paleoindian Interactions, edited by J.W. Fox, C.B. Smith, and K.T. Wilkins, pp.149-169. Baylor University Press, Waco Texas.
Haynes, Gary (1992). The Waco Mammoths: Possible Clues to Herd Size, Demography, and Reproductive Health. In Proboscidean and Paleoindian Interactions, edited by J.W. Fox, C. B. Smith, and K.T. Wilkins pp. 112-122. Baylor University Press, Waco Texas.
Todd, L.C., M.G. Hill, D.J. Rapson, and George C. Frison (1997). Cutmarks, Impacts, and Carnivores at the Casper Site Bison Bonebed. In Proceedings of the 1993 Bone Modification Conference Hot Springs, South Dakota, pp. 136-157. Archaeological Laboratory Augustana College, Occasional Publication No. 1. Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
List 11: (to be discussed on week 13)
Geoarchaeology and Paleoanthropology
Holliday, Vance T. and David J. Meltzer (1996). Geoarchaeology of the Midland (Paleoindian Site, Texas). American Antiquity 61(4):755-771.
Dixon, E. James, T.H. Heaton. T. E. Fifield, T.D. Hamilton, D.E. Putnam, and F. Grady (1997). Late Quaternary Regional Geoarchaeology of Southeast Alaska Karst: A Progress Report. Geoarchaeology 12(6): 689-712.
Tankersley, Kenneth B. (1997). Sheriden Cave: A Clovis Cave Site in Eastern North America. Geoarchaeology 12(6): 713-724.
Kelly, Robert L. and L.C. Todd (1998). Coming Into the Country: Early Paleoindian Hunting and Mobility. American Antiquity 53(2):231-244.
Hofman, J.L. (1991). Paleoindian Aggregations on the Great Plains. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 13:341-370.
Beaton, J.M. (1991). Colonizing Continents: Some Problems from Australia and the Americas. In The First Americans: Search and Research, edited by T.D. Dillehay and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 209-230. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
Binford, Lewis (1991). There Is Always More We Need to Know. In The First Americans: Search and Research, edited by T.D. Dillehay and D.J. Meltzer, pp. 275-286. CRC Press, Boca Raton.
List 12: (to be discussed on week 14)
Peopling the Americas Continued Debate
Hoffecker, John F., W. Roger Powers, and Ted Goebel (1992). The Colonization of Beringia and the Peopling of the New World. Science 259:46-53.
Chrisman, Donald, Richard S. MacNeisch, Jamshed Mavalwala, and Howard Savage (1996). Late Pleistocene Human Friction Skin Prints from Pendejo Cave, New Mexico. American Antiquity 61(2):357-376.
Dincauze, Dena F. (1977). Regarding Pendejo Cave: Response to Chrisman et al. American Antiquity 62(3):554-555.
Chrisman, Donald, Richard S. MacNeisch, and Geoffrey Cunnar (1977). Reply to Dincauze. American Antiquity 62(3):556-558.
Shaffer, Brian S., and Barry W. Baker (1997). How Many Epidermal Ridges per Linear Centimeter? Comments on Possible Pre-Clovis Human Friction Skin Prints from Pendejo Cave. American Antiquity 62(3): 559-560.
Chrisman, Donald (1997). Reply to Shaffer and Baker. American Antiquity 62(3):561.
Adovasio, J.M., and D.R. Pedler (1996). Monte Verde and the Antiquity of Humankind in the America. Antiquity 71:573-580.
Meltzer, David J., James M. Adovasio, and Tom D. Dillehay (1994). On a Pleistocene Human Occupation at Pedra Furada, Brazil. Antiquity 68:695-714.
Borreto, Luis, Alberto (1995). Human and Natural Agency: Some Comments on Pedra Furada. Antiquity 69:602-603
Guidon, N. and A.-M. Pessis (1996). Falsehood or Untruth? Antiquity 70:408-415.
Parenti, Fabio, Michel Fontugue, and Claude Guerin (1996). Limitations and Potential of the Available Data. Antiquity 70:416-421.
Roosevelt, A.C., M. Lima da Costa, C. Lopes Machado, M. Michab, N. Mercier, H. Valladas, J. Feathers, W. Barnett, M. Imazio da Silveira, A. Henderson, J. Sliva, B. Chernoff, D.S. Reese, J.A. Holman, N. Toth, and K. Schick (1996). Paleoindian Cave Dwellers in the Amazon: The Peopling of the Americas. Science 272:373-384.
Haynes, C. Vance, Jr., R. E. Reanier, W. P. Barse, Roosevelt, A.C., M. Lima da Costa, L.J. Brown, J.E. Douglas, M. ODonnell, E. Quinn, J. Kemp, C. Lopes Machado, M. Imazio da Silveira, J. Feathers, and A. Henderson. (1997). Dating a Paleoindian Site in the Amazon in Comparison with Clovis Culture. Science 275:1948-1952.
Dillehay, Tom D. (1989). Research Strategy. In Monte Verde: A Late Pleistocene Settlement in Chile. Volume 1: Palaeoenvironment and Site Context, edited by T.D. Dillehay, pp. 27-43. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
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