Quartz flakes in lakes: Microdebitage evidence for submerged Great Lakes prehistoric (Late Paleoindian–Early Archaic) tool-making sites

Geology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (7) ◽  
pp. 631-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth P. Sonnenburg ◽  
Joseph I. Boyce ◽  
Eduard G. Reinhardt
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Late Paleoindian

New Evidence for Late Paleoindian-Early Archaic Subsistence Behavior in the Western Great Lakes

1998 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 457-476 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven R. Kuehn
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Foraging Strategy ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Western Great Lakes ◽  
Cultural Ecological ◽  
Game Hunting ◽  
Human Foraging ◽  
Late Paleoindian ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Big Game Hunting

Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic subsistence behavior in the Western Great Lakes is an important research issue that has been hindered by a lack of zooarchaeological remains, as well as disagreements over the nature of the paleoenvironmental record and human foraging behavior. Prior reconstructions of early subsistence behavior have centered on a focused, big-game hunting strategy, despite very little solid evidence. Recently, two archaeological sites in northern Wisconsin containing Late Paleoindian faunal material have been excavated, the Deadman Slough site (47PR46) and the Sucices site (47DG11). The data from these sites, and similar recently discovered sites in northeastern North America, suggest that Late Paleoindian and Early Archaic peoples employed a generalized foraging strategy, utilizing a broad range of animal species from a wide array of environmental settings. This new archaeological evidence is utilized in conjunction with detailed paleoenvironmental data and information from cultural ecological studies to develop a model of Late Paleoindian-Early Archaic subsistence behavior for the Western Great Lakes.

scholarly journals Late Paleoindian–Early Archaic Dart Points from the Wolfshead Site (41SA117) in the Angelina River Basin in East Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Mark Walters
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
South Central ◽  
Petrified Wood ◽  
Late Paleoindian ◽  
The University ◽  
Plow Zone

The Wolfshead site (41SA117) was excavated by the Texas Archeological Salvage Project at The University of Texas in 1960 prior to the inundation of the site by the waters of Lake Sam Rayburn in the Angelina River basin in East Texas. The site was located on a sandy terrace and covered ca. 1 acre in size; the sandy deposits were a maximum of ca. 60 cm in thickness below an historic plow zone. The excavations in the northern and southern parts of the site indicated that the Wolfshead site had an extensive Late Paleoindian–Early Archaic San Patrice culture occupation estimated to date between ca. 10,500–9800 years B.P. based on the radiocarbon dating of archaeological deposits with San Patrice points in sites in the Woodland and Southern Plains in south central North America. San Patrice components cluster “in the eastern half of Texas, where prairies and woodlands would have predominated." The component at the Wolfshead site is marked by a number of distinctive dart points, as discussed in the next section, as well as scraping tools, and Albany scrapers. The Albany scrapers were made on local petrified wood, while the unifacial side and end scrapers were manufactured on both petrified wood and pebble cherts.

Exploring late Paleoindian and early Archaic unfluted lanceolate point classification in the Southern Plains

2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 243-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A Jennings ◽  
Ashley M Smallwood ◽  
Michael R Waters
Keyword(s):  
Southern Plains ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Late Paleoindian

Geoarchaeological Modeling of Late Paleoindian Site Location in the Northwestern Great Lakes Region

PaleoAmerica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-160
Author(s):  
Robert J. Legg ◽  
Robert R. Regis ◽  
John M. Lambert ◽  
Matthew Liesch ◽  
Charles B. Travis
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Great Lakes Region ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Late Paleoindian

scholarly journals The Woodland Period Component at the Wolfshead Site (41SA117), San Augustine County, Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula ◽  
Mark Walters
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Late Paleoindian ◽  
The University ◽  
Plow Zone

The Wolfshead site (41SA117) was excavated by the Texas Archeological Salvage Project at The University of Texas in the fall and winter of 1960 prior to the inundation of the site by the waters of Lake Sam Rayburn in the Angelina River basin in East Texas. The site was located on a sandy terrace and covered ca. 1 acre in size; the sandy deposits were a maximum of ca. 60 cm in thickness below an historic plow zone. The excavations were in the northern and southern parts of the site, and indicated that the Wolfshead site had an extensive Late Paleoindian–Early Archaic San Patrice culture occupation dating ca. 10,500–9800 years B.P., as well as a Woodland period (ca. 2500–1150 years B.P.) occupation in both site areas. The latter occupation is a component of the inland and deep East Texas Mossy Grove culture defined by Story. This component is recognized by the occurrence of sandy paste Goose Creek Plain ceramic vessel sherds, contracting stem dart points (in the earlier part of the Woodland period), and various stemmed arrow points (after ca. A.D. 700 in the Woodland period).

scholarly journals Abstracts of Papers for the 14th Annual East Texas Archeological Conference, February 10, 2007

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Avery
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Stone Artifacts ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Late Paleoindian

A summary of the analysis of lithics at Los Adaes (16NA16) is presented. Aside from a small number of Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic diagnostics, all stone artifacts recovered at Los Adaes (16NA16) date to the colonial period or later. Colonial stone artifacts include gunflints, probable strike-a-lights, and ground stone fragments, mostly mano fragments. Most of the gunflints appear to be French, while most of the strike-a-light flint appear to be from Central Texas chert. The local gravel cherts do not appear to have been used as either gunflints or strike-a-light flints. The mano fragments are mostly of basalt, which was brought from Mexico.

The Bostrom Site: A Paleo-Indian Habitation in Southwestern Illinois

1993 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth B. Tankersley ◽  
Brad Koldehoff ◽  
Edwin R. Hajic
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subsistence Strategy ◽  
Source Areas ◽  
Early Archaic ◽  
Lithic Raw Materials ◽  
Tool Types ◽  
Dramatic Fall

Recent investigations at the Bostrom site in southwestern Illinois demonstrate that the site was occupied by at least three successive groups of Paleo-Indians: Clovis, Gainey, and Holcombe. Of the artifacts for which lithic raw materials were identified, Clovis tools are manufactured from stone that was procured up to 1500 km from the site. Gainey and Holcombe artifacts, on the other hand, are manufactured from stone whose source areas occur within a radius of 300 km from the site. Early Archaic, Dalton artifacts are manufactured from stone procured within 150 km of the site. These lithic resource procurement patterns suggest that there is a dramatic fall-off in mobility, social interaction, or both, after the initial peopling of the area. The presence of Great Lakes and Northeastern tool types at this southerly latitude suggests that the Gainey and Holcombe economies were much broader than the stereotypical model of a caribou-based subsistence strategy.

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