Allison Witter photographs of Dennis Stanford and George Metcalf at the Jones-Miller site
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 81-46
label: Reproduction Note
content: Copy prints possibly made by National Geographic Society, circa 1980.
name: label: Creator
content: Witter, Allison
label: Names
content: Metcalf, George, 1900-1975
label: Names
content: Stanford, Dennis J.
place: label: Place
content: Colorado -- Antiquities
topic: label: Topic
content: Paleo-Indians
creator: label: Creator
content: Witter, Allison
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site, located in Yuma County, Colorado, was a Paleo-Indian site where ancient bison were butchered, perhaps as early as 8000-8050 BC. After its discovery by rancher Robert Jones, Jr. and test excavation by local anthropologist Jack Miller, archeologist Dennis Stanford headed full-scale excavations of the Jones-Miller site. The Smithsonian excavation, with funding from the National Geographic Society, was performed between 1973 and 1978.

Dennis J. Stanford was an archeologist, scholar of early North American inhabitants, and advocate for the Solutrean hypothesis. He was a curator of North American archeology, particularly Paleoindian archeology, at the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution. Dr. George S. Metcalf was a field archeologist, historian of the Great Plains, and supervisor of the processing laboratory of the department of anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Copy prints
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1973
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.81-46
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Copy prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals note
content: Originals probably in National Geographic slide file.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs depicting two Smithsonian archeologists, George Metcalf and Dennis Stanford, with Jack Maddox at the Jones-Miller site in northeast Colorado. The photographs were made for the National Geographic Society in July 1973.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Wray Museum in Wray, Colorado, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science hold artifacts from the Smithsonian excavation of the Jones-Miller site.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of George Metcalf can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in Photo Lot 58, Photo Lot 83-15, and the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional photographs of Dennis Stanford can be found in the Smithsonian Institution Archives in SIA Acc. 95-013.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Reports by Stanford can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in MS 7293 and the Department of Anthropology Annual Reports, 1920-1983.