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Plains Archaic Bibliography

Brief Bibliography on the Plains Archaic

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This bibliography is a part of the About.com guide to the American Archaic.

Artz, Joe A. 1996 Cultural response or geological process? A comment on Sheehan. Plains Anthropologist 41(158):383-393.

Bement, Leland C. and Kent J. Buehler 1994 Preliminary results from the Certain site: A Late Archaic bison kill in western Oklahoma. Plains Anthropologist 39(148):173-183.

Bender, Barbara 1985 Emergent tribal formations in the American midcontinent. American Antiquity 50(1):52-62.

Bender, Barbara1985 Prehistoric developments in the American midcontinent and in Brittany, northwest France. In Prehistoric hunter-gatherers: the emergence of cultural complexity. T. D. Price and James A. Brown, eds. Pp. 21-57. New York: Academic Press.

Carlson, Gayle F., et al. 1999 The Sidney Burial: A Middle Plains Archaic mortuary site from western Nebraska. Plains Anthropologist 44(168):105-119.

Davis, Carl M. and James D. Keyser 1999 McKean complex projectile point typology and function in the pine parklands. Plains Anthropologist 44(169):215-270.

Finnegan, Michael 1981 Archaic skeletal remains from the Central Plains: Demography and burial practices. Memoir 17. Plains Anthropologist 26(94):85-92.

Larson, Mary L. 1997 Housepits and mobile hunter-gatherers: A consideration of the Wyoming evidence. Plains Anthropologist 42(161):353-369.

McBrinn M. 2010. Everything Old Is New Again: Recent Approaches to Research on the Archaic Period in the Western United States. Journal of Archaeological Research 18(3):289-329.

Meltzer, David J. 1999 Human responses to Middle Holocene (Altithermal) climates on the North American Great Plains. Quaternary Research 52:404-416.

Niven, Laura B. and Matthew G. Hill 1998 Season of bison mortality at three Plains archaic kill sites in Wyoming. Plains Anthropologist 43(163):5-26.

Sheehan, Michael S. 1996 Cultural responses to the altithermal or inadequate sampling reconsidered. Plains Anthropologist 41(158):395-397.

Sundstrom, Linea 1989 Archaic Hunting Practices Depicted in a Northwestern Plains Rock Art Style. Plains Anthropologist 34(124):149-169.

Thurmond, J. P. and Don G. Wyckoff 1999 The Calf Creek Horizon in northwestern Oklahama. Plains Anthropologist 44(169):231-250.

Walker, Phillip L., Douglas J. Kennett, Terry L. Jones, and Robert DeLong2000 Archaeological investigations at the Point Bennett Pinniped Rookery on San Miguel Island. In The Fifth California Islands Symposium. D. R. Brown, K. C. M. Mitchell, and H. W. Chaney, eds. Pp. 628-632. U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service, Pacific OCS Region.

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