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Frison, George C.; Stanford, Dennis J. - The Agate Basin Site. A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains.  - 9780989824903 - V9780989824903
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The Agate Basin Site. A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains.

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Description for The Agate Basin Site. A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains. Paperback. The Agate Basin monograph is not only a classic of Plains paleoindian archaeology, but also of multidisciplinary research, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. Lucid presentation of meticulously excavated and analyzed sediments, bones, and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of Paleoindian life. Series: Ewp Foundations of Archaeology. Num Pages: 430 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWY; HDD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 218 x 278 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1176.

George Frison and Dennis Stanford's Agate Basin monograph is not only a classic of Plains paleoindian archaeology, but also of multidisciplinary research, geoarchaeology, zooarchaeology, and experimental archaeology. Lucid presentation of meticulously excavated and analyzed sediments, bones and artifacts convey an unmatched sense of the sights, sounds and smells of Paleoindian life on the High Plains—from brutal winters and blistering summers, to killing and butchering bison, and to making lethal weaponry.

As Matthew Hill writes in his new prologue, 'Not merely an important volume of the Frison canon, Agate Basin stands as a foundational document in modern Americanist archaeology and a major accomplishment in American science.'

Originally published by Academic Press in 1982

 

 



 



 

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Eliot Werner Publications Inc United States
Number of pages
430
Condition
New
Series
Ewp Foundations of Archaeology
Number of Pages
430
Place of Publication
Clinton Corners, United States
ISBN
9780989824903
SKU
V9780989824903
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About Frison, George C.; Stanford, Dennis J.
George C. Frison is an American archaeologist. He has been given the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Paleoarchaeologist of the Century Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Dennis J. Stanford is an anthropologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Matthew G. Hill is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Iowa State University.

Reviews for The Agate Basin Site. A Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains.
'The Agate Basin Site has shaped our understanding of the early settlement of the Great Plains. Frison and Stanford set a standard for quality and readability that few archaeologists have matched. A landmark in synthetic research that brings together world-class research on lithic technology, faunal analysis, geoarchaeology, and paleoenvironmental studies.' (Matthew E. Hill Jr., University of Iowa) 'The Agate Basin Site is a remarkable locality in Paleoindian archaeology with its multiple, stratified occupation zones representing the earliest settlement of the Great Plains. Frison and Stanford's superb volume stands, appropriately, as a classic study in integrated zooarchaeology, geoarchaeology, and paleobotany in Paleoindian and Plains archaeology.' (Vance T. Holliday, University of Arizona) 'The Agate Basin Site is an exemplary work on an important site. Matthew Hill's prologue to this much-needed reissue nicely puts the work in context and explains why this book has earned the right to be on the bookshelf of every archaeologist interested in hunter-gatherers, vertebrate taphonomy, and environmental reconstruction. A classic that never goes out of style.' (David Meltzer, Southern Methodist University) 'The Agate Basin site occupies an unremarkable landscape. But the rich Paleoindian archaeology along Moss Agate Arroyo described in this volume transforms this stretch of the High Plains into a landmark site of North American archaeology. Equally, this volume shows how Frison's research program helped transform Paleoindian research.' (Lawrence Todd, Colorado State University)

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