COLLECTING ARTIFACTS – RANDOM THOUGHTS
By Oliver T. Skrivanie Artifact collecting philosophy is very personal, as you are the only one who must be happy and satisfied with your collection. There is no secret or […]
ISHI AND THE D.B. LYON CONNECTION
By Jeb A. Taylor, Associate Editor One of the great pleasures in performing research is the occasional discovery of something new and exciting. Recently, while working on a project analyzing […]
A Case for the Masters Point
by Tom Westfall, Sterling, Colorado Originally Published in the Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol.56, No.4, pg.200 Originally Published in the Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol.57, No.2, pg.80 At the end […]
THE PALEO END SCRAPER
By Tony Baker as Edited by Gene Hynek The Paleo End Scraper (PES) is an extremely important artifact because it is a temporal indicator, like the projectile. Dr. Frison has […]
Megafauna Tools: A Paleo Site in Kentucky
by Dan T. Harper, Nashville, Tennessee Originally Published in the Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol.57, No.1, pg.42 A group of six chipped tools from the site. The author has uncovered […]
Pointed Weapons of Wood, Bone, and Ivory: Survival Tools of Early Man in North America
Floyd Painter, Norfolk, Virginia Abstract Early Man quite possibly arrived from Asia armed only with spearpoints of bone, ivory, or fire-hardened wood. The familiar Clovis “fluted points” and other lithic points equally old […]
Mississippian Spades and Hoes
Carl Latchford, Rock Falls, Illinois Figure 1. A cache of Mississippian spades found near Cahokia Mounds in 1950 by Gregory Perino and Ed Milkert. From the collection of Carl Latchford. […]
THE FOLSOM CULTURE
By Leslie S. Pfeiffer Figure 1. Type site Folsom point in situ.(Rights Reserved, Image Archives, Denver Museum ofNature and Science) Excavations at the Folsom site in Colfax County, New Mexico […]
THE HISTORY OF THE FOLSOM SITE
By Jeb A. Taylor Figure 1. George McJunkin, discoverer of the Folsom site.(Rights Reserved, Image Archives, Denver Museum of Nature and Science) The Folsom site is located in Colfax County, […]
FOLSOM POINTS FROM LLANO AND MIDLAND COUNTIES, TEXAS
By C.K. Chandler ABSTRACT This paper illustrates and documents four previously unrecorded Folsom points and one Midland point. One is from Llano County in the Edwards Plateau area of Central Texas. The other […]