The Allen Site in southwestern Nebraska has nurtured the interest
of archaeologists and paleontologists with abundant signs of a long
history of human, animal, and environmental activity. Douglas
Bamforth focuses primarily on Paleoindian land use represented by
the Allen Site and the adjacent smaller sites collectively known as
the Medicine Creek Paleoindian sites.
The Medicine Creek sites, located in the central Great Plains,
highlight aspects of early Native American lifeways that are
obscured by the emphasis in most Paleoindian examinations of large
bison kills. Research at Medicine Creek has stressed reconstruction
of both the overall regional environment and of local
microenvironmental variation, along with human responses to both of
these. Advances in analysis and well-preserved remains from the
Allen site in particular document the extraordinary range of
species that Paleoindian groups harvested in addition to bison and
open serious questions about widely accepted reconstructions of
Paleoindian land use. In addition, the well-stratified evidence for
long-term residential use of the site offers a rare chance to
consider patterns of adaptive change over the course of the
Paleoindian period.
"Contributors"
Mark Becker, ASM Affiliates, Encinitas, CA
Reid A. Bryson, Center for Climatic Research, University of
Wisconsin, Madison, WI
James Chatters, applied paleoscience, Richland, WA
Linda Scott Cummings, PaleoResearch Institute, Inc., Golden,
CO
E. Mott Davis, anthropology department, University of Texas,
Austin, TX
Jean Hudson, anthropology department, University of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, WI
David May, geography department, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar
Falls, IA
Thomas Moutoux, PaleoResearch Institute, Inc., Golden, CO
Robert Warren, Illinois State Museum Research and Collections
Center, Springfield, IL
L. Anthony Zalucha, Paleoethnobotanical Consulting, Mount Horeb,
WI
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