By Bonnie L. Pitblado
Overdue Paleoindian profession of the Southern Rocky Mountains explores how a few of North AmericaÂ’s earliest humans used the Rocky Mountain panorama 10,000 to 7,500 years in the past. Bonnie L. Pitblado is very considering the level to which early humans integrated the southern Rocky Mountains into their cost structures and the way past due Paleoindian humans moved around the southern Rocky Mountain panorama. according to wide study evaluating greater than six hundred painstakingly documented past due Paleoindian projectile issues from Colorado and Utah, this ebook unearths profound neighborhood alterations alongside 3 axes of projectile element variability, which means both profound nearby changes in overdue Paleoindian payment techniques. Pitblado highlights specific features of early human use of the southern Rocky Mountains, however the comparative nature of the examine additionally yields new inferences approximately overdue Paleoindian use of the Colorado Plains, the Utah nice Basin, and the Colorado Plateau.
Synthetic and comparative in nature, "Late Paleoindian profession" of the Southern Rocky Mountains will entice a huge diversity of students and avocational archaeologists. for pro archaeologists, hunter-gather land-use modeling and interpretations of past due Paleoindian cost options throughout 4 significant environments of the yankee West might be of specific curiosity.
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Key among these problems are four this book addresses, two indirectly and two directly: late Paleoindian chronology, the relationship of the Rockies to the Colorado Plateau and Great Basin, the extent of Rocky Mountain occupation (full-time versus part-time), and the nature of Rocky Mountain late Paleoindian land use. P. to the fluorescence of mountain occupation and the divergence of Rockies and Plains adaptations. This date, however, is ripe for refinement—something the research design allows.
It is difficult to characterize the nature of mobility without first assessing whether the Rockies were occupied full-time, seasonally, or only very occasionally, for each schedule of use should correlate with a variable pattern of mobility. Accordingly, this research takes each issue in turn, first attempting to establish the degree to which the mountain environment was used and then moving on to characterize how late Paleoindian groups utilized the high-altitude landscape. PROJECTILE POINT FOCUS, JUSTIFICATION, AND COMMENT Projectile points were selected for analysis for several reasons.
Summer temperatures reach 30–35° C, and winter temperatures average around –10° C, dropping to –18° C or colder with the wind chill. Tall-grass ecosystems predominate in the eastern reaches of the Great Plains and midgrass ones to the north in Wyoming, but the Plains of Colorado are short-grass prairie, with lower floral species diversity than their talland middle-grass counterparts (Fitzharris 1983; Knight 1994; Manning 1995). Predominant plants of the short-grass prairie include blue grama and buffalo grass (which make up 80 percent of plant cover), as well as a few edible nongrasses like prickly pear cactus, chokecherry, sego lily, and arrow-leaf balsam root (Kindscher 1987).