The Hogeye Clovis Cache - Couverture souple

Michael R. Waters; Thomas A. Jennings

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1648433960 ISBN 13 : 9781648433962

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millennia, deposition buried the cache several meters below the surface. The entombed artifacts lay undisturbed until 2003. A circuitous path brought thirteen of the original thirty-seven Clovis bifaces and points through many hands before reaching the attention of Michael Waters at Texas A&M University. At the site of the original cache, Waters and coauthor Thomas A. Jennings conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried. This book provides a well-illustrated, thoroughly analyzed description and discussion of the Hogeye Clovis cache, the projectile points and other artifacts from later occupations, and the geological context of the site, which has yielded evidence of multiple Paleoindian, Archaic, and Late Prehistoric occupations. The cache of tools and weapons at Hogeye, when combined with other sites, allows us to envision a snapshot of life at the end of the last Ice Age.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Michael R. Waters directs the Center for the Study of the First Americans in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and is executive director of the North Star Archaeological Research Program.

Thomas A. Jennings, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of West Georgia, is also coeditor of Clovis Lithic Technology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1648433960
• ISBN 13: 9781648433962
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 156
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• Personne responsable: non disponible