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By Vance T. Holliday,Thomas R. Hester

ISBN-10: 0292731094

ISBN-13: 9780292731097

ISBN-10: 0292731140

ISBN-13: 9780292731141

The Southern excessive Plains of northwestern Texas and jap New Mexico are wealthy in Paleoindian archaeological websites, together with such recognized ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. those websites were commonly researched over many years, not just by way of archaeologists but additionally via geoscientists, whose reviews of soils and stratigraphy have yielded very important information regarding cultural chronology and paleoenvironments around the region.

In this publication, Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the knowledge from those previous experiences along with his personal fresh study to provide the most up-tp-date and accomplished evaluate of the geoarchaeology of the Southern excessive Plains throughout the earliest human career. He delves into twenty websites intensive, integrating new and outdated info on website geomorphology, stratigraphy, soils, geochronology, and paleoenvironments. He additionally compares the Southern excessive Plains websites with different websites around the nice Plains, for a broader chronological and paleoenvironmental perspective.

With over 90 pictures, maps, move sections, diagrams, and artifact drawings, this ebook might be crucial analyzing for geoarchaeologists, archaeologists, and Quaternary geoscientists, in addition to avocational archaeologists who participate in Paleoindian web site research in the course of the American West.

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