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Jesse D. Jennings [1909-1997]

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Definition: Jesse Jennings was an American archaeologist, who spent most of his career in the American southwest and Great Basin, with particular emphasis on the Fremont culture. His most famous work was excavating at Danger Cave, a long-occupied rockshelter in Utah.

Jennings, Jesse D. 1994 Accidental Archaeologist: Memoirs of Jesse D. Jennings. edition.Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
---1948 The Florida Indian and His Neighbors. Plains Anthropologist 1(4):83.
---1974 Prehistory of North America. edition.New York: McGraw-Hill.
---1950 Program Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society Meeting. Plains Anthropologist 3(4):51-41.
---1949 Table Top Archeology. Plains Anthropologist 2(3):30-33.

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