The Allen Site
Subtitle: a Paleoindian camp in southwestern Nebraska
By: edited by Douglas B. Bamforth.
Contributors: Bamforth, Douglas B.
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780826342959
Subjects: Paleo-Indians -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley; Paleoethnobotany -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley; Paleoecology -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Nebraska -- Medicine Creek Valley; Medicine Creek Valley (Neb.) -- Antiquities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Douglas B. Bamforth; title: Previous Paleoindian research at Medicine Creek / E. Mott Davis; title: Landforms, alluvial stratigraphy, and radiocarbon chronology at selected Paleoindian sites around Medicine Creek Reservoir / David May; title: Cultural and paleoenvironmental implications of freshwater mussels from the Allen Site / Robert E. Warren; title: Growth increment analysis of freshwater mussel shell from the Allen Site / James C. Chatters; title: Paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene in southwestern Nebraska : the pollen and phytolith evidence / Linda Scott Cummings, Thomas E. Moutoux, and Reid A. Bryson; title: Early Holocene vegetation of the central Great Plains based on paleobotanical and paleoethnobotanical remains from the Medicine Creek area / L. Anthony Zalucha; title: Archaeology of the Allen Site : introduction, fieldwork, and provenience data / Douglas B. Bamforth; title: Spatial structure and refitting of the Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker; title: The Allen Site lithic assemblage / Douglas B. Bamforth and Mark Becker; title: Other archaeological evidence / Douglas B. Bamforth; title: Faunal evidence for subsistence and settlement patterns at the Allen Site / Jean Hudson; title: Synthesis : Paleoindian occupation of the Allen Site / Douglas B. Bamforth; title: Beyond Medicine Creek : the Allen Site and Plains Paleoindian-period ways of life / Douglas B. Bamforth.