Late archaic bison hunters in Northern Colorado: 1997-1999 excavations at the Kaplan-Hoover bison bonebed (5LR3953)

Plains Anthropologist

Volumn 46, Issue 176, 2001, Pages 125-147

  Todd, Lawrence C ^a   Jones, David C ^a   Walker, Robert S ^b   Burnett, Paul C ^a   Eighmy, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bison hunting; Bonebeds; Central High Plains; Late Plains Archaic; Taphonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 5144221432     PISSN: 00320447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2001.11932064     Document Type: Review

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