The Sequence in Northern Plains Prehistory
Creators: name: L. C. Steege
Publisher: name: The Wyoming Archaeological Society
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Colorado
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/113/colorado
subject: New Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/21/new-mexico
subject: Saskatchewan
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/15989/saskatchewan
subject: Mexico
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/134/mexico
subject: Laramie Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/9287/laramie-basin
subject: Wyoming
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/19431/wyoming
subject: Montana
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/9704/montana
subject: Alaska
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/19929/alaska
subject: Alberta
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/geographic-keyword/19628/alberta
subject: Late Prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/3245/late-prehistoric
subject: Historic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/temporal-keyword/5728/historic
subject: Clovis
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/5/clovis
subject: Folsom
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/6/folsom
subject: Agate Basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/646/agate-basin
subject: James Allen
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/9575/james-allen
subject: Cody
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/2264/cody
subject: ANGOSTURA
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/culture-keyword/3883/angostura
subject: Horner
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132580/horner
subject: Signal Butte
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132581/signal-butte
subject: McKean Site
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/9864/mckean-site
subject: pictograph cave
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/site-name/132457/pictograph-cave
subject: Shell
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/14/shell
subject: Ceramic
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/1/ceramic
subject: Chipped Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/2/chipped-stone
subject: Fauna
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/4/fauna
subject: Ground Stone
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/7/ground-stone
subject: Metal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/material-type/11/metal
subject: Altithermal
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/8813/altithermal
subject: Rocky Mountains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/101838/rocky-mountains
subject: glendo reservoir
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169999/glendo-reservoir
subject: yuma
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169997/yuma
subject: shoshone basin
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169998/shoshone-basin
subject: Northern Plains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/154867/northern-plains
subject: Pleistocene
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/131284/pleistocene
subject: Cody Knife
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/20022/cody-knife
subject: Plainview
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/136856/plainview
subject: Eden
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/136859/eden
subject: Scottsbluff
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/136860/scottsbluff
subject: Central Plains
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/141474/central-plains
subject: Sandia Point
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/137771/sandia-point
subject: middle prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169995/middle-prehistoric
subject: midland
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169996/midland
subject: early prehistoric
valueUri: https://core.tdar.org/browse/other-keyword/169994/early-prehistoric

description: The State of Wyoming is located in a region known to archaeologists as the northern Plains. Through the medium of archaeology much information has been gathered and compiled which has given us a rather complex picture of the area’s first inhabitants. Although much of the evidence has come from outside our borders, many of the characteristic artifacts are displayed from surface collections which proves the existence of these people in Wyoming also. The exact date of man’s entry into the New World is not known. Evidence suggests that he may have been here for 20,000 years. No evidence of any great antiquity has been found in Wyoming which tells us that man has been in this region for more than 10,000 years. Anthropologists will agree that man’s origin undoubtedly is in the Old World where he has existed for thousands of years. No skeletal remains have ever been found in the New World which suggests anything but “homo sapiens” or modern man. The Bering Straits appear to be the only logical route by which man made his entry into the New World from the Old. A framework in which archaeological evidence from the northern Plains is classified has been tentatively divided into four major time periods. These are the “Early Prehistoric Period, Middle Prehistoric Period, Late Prehistoric Period and the Historic Period”.