Oklahoma

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Archaeological Sites

Burnham Ranch
A possible (very)preClovis site in far northwest Oklahoma, a news report based on research by Don Wyckoff and Jim Theler.

Cooper Site
Folsom bison kill, northwest Oklahoma, from the Mammoth Trumpet.
     A painted bison skull from the Cooper site article by Leland Bement and others in Current Research in the Pleistocene.

Odessa Yates
A Late Prehistoric trade center on the Southern Plains; excavation notes from the 2000 field school by the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey.

The Red River Wreck
Ongoing excavations by the Oklahoma Historical Society at this Western Rivers sidewheeler believed to have sunk in the late 1830s or early 1840s.

University Programs

Oklahoma Archaeological Survey
Plains research.

Current Researchers

"Uncle Bill" Baker
While hardly a "current researcher," Baker was a pioneer avocational archaeologist in the Oklahoma panhandle. A biographical paper by Jason M. LaBelle, given at a recent Plains Anthropology meeting.

Susan Vehik
Oklahoma University, Plains, lithics, late prehistoric to historic transition, grassland adaptations, exchange, evolutionary ecology; evoluton of bison hunter-horticulturist relations on the southern plains

Don Wyckoff
Oklahoma University, lithic technology, Pleistocene environments and early human adaptations, prehistoric hunter-gatherers in the Southeast U. S.,
and anthropology of Caddoan speaking people. Currently: late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments and human adaptations in eastern and western Oklahoma.

Cultural History

General Information

Archaeology at About.com

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