Clovis Mammoth Butchery: The Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology (Peopling of the Americas Publications)

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Thirteen millennia ago, in a small creek valley in western South Dakota, two mammoths perished. The mammoths, an adult and a juvenile, likely a cow and calf pair, died on the edge of an ancient pond.

The Lange/Ferguson Website online is the earliest dated archaeological Website online in South Dakota and probably the most few North American sites that provides evidence of a Clovis-period mammoth butchering event. Along with the preserved remains of the two mammoths, the Website online yielded diagnostic Clovis weaponry—three Clovis projectile points recovered in context and stratigraphically associated with the mammoth bonebed—and flaked bone tools. The Website online offers a rare snapshot in time detailing early Paleoindian interactions with now-extinct megafauna nearly 13,000 years ago.

In Clovis Mammoth Butchery: The Lange/Ferguson Website online and Associated Bone Tool Technology, L. Adrien Hannus provides a comprehensive take a look at probably the most few New World Clovis-era sites with in-place buried deposits exhibiting evidence for an expedient bone tool technology.  Multidisciplinary investigations include paleoenvironmental and geochronological reconstructions—pollen and phytoliths, geology and geomorphology, diatoms and ostracodes, mollusks, and vertebrate paleontology—in addition to taphonomic evaluations and a microwear analysis of the chipped stone tools.

Clovis Mammoth Butchery offers readers a rare glimpse into a singular moment in prehistory that captures human interaction with extinct animals all through a swiftly changing world for which there is not any up to date comparison. This book shares great insight into hunting and procurement strategies used by big game hunters all through the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene.

 

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