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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Paleoindians"”.
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Paleoindian technological provisioning in the western Great Basin
… Paleoindian adaptations have suggested that Paleoindians, represented by Clovis, Folsom, and Plano traditions, were highly mobile foragers. By contrast, "Paleoarchaic" hunter-gatherers of the Great Basin are thought to have become increasingly sedentary through time, specially adapted and …
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Broken Bones and Cutmarks: Taphonomic Analyses and Implications for the Peopling of North America
… to evaluate hypotheses of fauna utilization by Paleoindians. A pre-Clovis occupation is not substantiated, but Clovis-era sites lacking lithic and organic tools display evidence of proboscidean butchering and bone breakage for marrow access or expedient bone tool production. Clovis sites with …
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Paleoindian Chronology, Technology, and Lithic Resource Procurement at Nesquehoning Creek
… those territories about as frequently as Early Paleoindians in the Middle Atlantic and Northeast regions. Detailed analysis of contextually secure Paleoindian assemblages are crucial to identifying similarities and differences between archaeological complexes. This research demonstrates the …
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An Experimental Program to Evaluate Proposed Functions of Crescents from the Western United States
Crescents are generally lunate bifaces associated with terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene assemblages in the western U.S. and are commonly found near relict lakeshores, marshes, and the Pacific Coast. Many hypotheses regarding crescents' function have been proposed but it has remained a mystery …