CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE PLEISTOCENE Vol. 4, 1987

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Archaeology Pleistocene Peoples of Southwestern Montana R. Bonnichsen, J. Taylor, andM. Turner 1 Early Occupations at Berger Bluff, Goliad County, Texas K.M. Brown 3 Spring Cleanup at a Folsom Campsite in the Northern Rockies LB. Davis, S.T. Greiser, andT.W. Greiser 5 Subsistence Strategies in North China C.-K. HoandZ.-W. Li 7 Folsom Components at the Winters and Beckner Sites, Southwestern Oklahoma J.L.HofmanandD.G. Wyckoff 10 Early Paleoindian Occupation in Interior Southcentral Ontario LJ. Jackson and H. McKillop 11 Living Environment of Late Paleolithic Man in Northeast China P. Jiang 14 Ryan's Site: A Plainview Occupation on the Southern High Plains of Texas E. Johnson, V.T. Holliday, R.W. Ralph, R. Knudson, andS. Lupton 17' Japan's "Early Paleolithic": Recent Pro and Con CT. Keally 19 Redundancy in Early Postglacial Land Use in Robbins Swamp, Southwestern New England G.P. Nicholas 21 Another Holocene Sequence and Recent Progress of the Piscataquis Archaeological Project in Central Maine J.B.PetersonandD.E.Putnam 23 The Loessic Paleolith: A New Paleolithic Terminology V.A. Ranov 25 Paleoindian Research in Michigan: Current Status of the Gainey and Leavitt Projects D.B. Simons, M.J. Shott, and H.T. Wright 27 Paleoindian Settlement and Lithic Procurement Patterns in the Karstic Region of Southcentral Indiana E.E. Smith 30 The Magnet Site: A Late Paleoindian Site in Southcentral Indiana E.E. Smith 32 Patterning in Paleoindian Behavior: The Michaud Site A. SpiessandD. Brush 34 iii CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE PLEISTOCENE Vol. 4, 1987

Big Bone Lick: A Clovis Site in Northcentral Kentucky KB. Tankersley...... 36 The Trail Draw Alberta Site in the Black Hills, South Dakota A.M. Tratebas ...... 38 Durham , A Pre-Clovis Occupation of Pennsylvania? H.I. Tucci 39 Research on the Late Pleistocene in Oklahoma D.G. Wyckoff, P. Flynn, B.J. Carter, and B.A. Branson...... 41

Physical Inbreeding and Wisconsin Glacial Barriers LA. RogersandR.A. Rogers 45

Lithic Studies Recent Paleoindian Research in Georgia D.G. Anderson, R.I. Ledbetter, L O'Steen, D. Elliott, and D. Blanton...... 47 Paleoindian Occupation in Central-Eastern California: the Komodo Site M.E. Basgall 50 Paleoindian Components at 36LA336, Lancaster, County, Pennsylvania J.F. CusterandG.R. Smoker 54 Attributes: Calico Lithic Specimens and Experimental Knapping - A Comparison L V. Hoffman, R.D. Simpson, R.M. Higginbotham, andLw. Patterson 56 The Occurrence of Folsom Points in Oklahoma J.L. Hofman ...... 57 Instrumental Neutron Activation Analysis of Archaeological Quartzite from Cummins Site, Thunder Bay: Determination of Geological Source P.J. Julig, LA. Pavlish, andR.G.V. Hancock ...... 59 The 30,000-Year-Old Lithic Components from the Musashidai Site, Tokyo, Japan CT. KeallyandI. Hayakawa ...... 61 Fluted Points from the Pacific Northwest D.J.Me/tzerandR.CDunnell 64 Preliminary Study of the Distribution of Fluted Points in Nebraska T.P. Myers 67 The Diskau Site: A Paleoindian Occupation in Northeast Kansas L.I. Schmits 69 The Swan's Landing Site: An Early Archaic and Tool Manufacturing Site in Harrison County, Indiana E.£. Smith 71

Taphonomy-Bone Modification Trample Marks: Caution from the Cretaceous A.R.Fiorillo 73 Elephant-Butchering at Modern Mass-Kill Sites in Africa G. Haynes 75 Significance of Bone Orientation Data for the Clovis-Age Bone Bed at the Lubbock Lake Landmark E. Johnson, V.T. Holliday, andL Kreutzer 77 Bone Orientation Data for the Clovis-Age Bone Bed at the Lubbock Lake Landmark L Kreutzer ...... 79 iv CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE PLEISTOCENE Vol. 4, 1987

Methods The Folsom Discover and the Concept of Breakthrough Sites in Paleo indian Studies R.A. RogersandLD. Martin 81 Plains Paleoindian Red Ochre Use and Its Possible Significance D.e. Roper 82 The Clovis Man Site: A Turning Point in Opinion R.W. Wilson 84

Paleoenvironments: Plants Contrasting Climatic Histories for Western North America during the Early Holocene O.K. Davis and WD. Sellers ...... 87 A Pollen Sequence Associated with Paleoindian Presence in Northeastern Minnesota J.K. HuberandC.L Hill 89 A Vegetational Reconstruction from Big Rice Lake, St. Louis County, Minnesota J.K. Huber 91 Preliminary Growth Curve for Rhizocarpon geographicum s.l. in the Wind River Range, Western Wyoming W.e. Mahaney 93 A 1O,500-Year Record of Environmental Change from Cape Cod, Massachusetts P.e. Tzedakis 96 A Paleoecological Reconstruction from August Lake, Lake County, Minnesota B. Wonson-LiukkonenandJ.K.Huber 98

Paleoenvironments: Vertebrates Age Structure Analysis of Mammuthus columbi, Hot Springs Mammoth Site, South Dakota LD. Agenbroad and J.I. Mead 101 Wolverines: Oulo Oulo in Late Rancholabrean Deposits in Nebraska: First Records from the Great Plains R.O. CornerandM.R. Voorhies 103 Lemmus sibiricus from the Late Quaternary of the Midwestern United States R.L FoleyandLE. Raue 105 Initial Investigations of Vertebrate Remains from Snake Creek Burial Cave, White Pine County, Nevada T.H. Heaton 107 Ontario Paleoindians and Proboscideans: A Review L.J. Jackson 109 A New Location of the Late Pleistocene Fauna in the Polish Carpathians A. NadachowskiandM. Wolsan ...... 112 Archaeological Investigations at Haystack Cave, Central Colorado D.T.Nash 114 A Specimen of Bootherium bombifrons (Artiodactyla, Bovidae) from Northwest Missouri J.F. NeasandO. Parker 116 New Paleontological and Archaeological Investigations at Dutchess Quarry Cave No.8, Orange County, New York D.W. SteadmanandR.E. Funk ...... 118 A Study of Mammoth Tusks from Permafrost of North-eastern Siberia N.K. VereshchaginandA.N. Tikhonov 120 v CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE PLEISTOCENE Vol. 4, 1987

Paleoenvironments: Geosciences Problems of Glacial Sequence and Chronology in the Terminal Zone of Northeastern Kansas W. Dort, Jr. 123 Radiocarbon Dates at Willcox Playa, Arizona, Bracket the Clovis Occupation Surface e.V. Haynes, Jr., A. Long, andA.J.T. Jull I24 Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene Depositional Environments at Mustang Springs, Southern Llano Estacado C.L HillandD.J. Meltzer 127 Emergence of an Alluvial Geoarchaeological Model for the Kansas River Basin We. Johnson andC.W Martin 130 Geoarchaeological Investigations at Lake Creek Valley, Southeastern Texas R.D. Mandel, L Bement, andS.e. Caron 132 Soil-Sediment Relationships at the Lamont Mastodon Locality, Wyoming M. McFaul and WR. Latady, Jr. 134 Stream Terraces and Surface Derived Paleoindian Material on the Neosho River Drainage R.A. Rogers 136 Investigations of the Pleistocene Geological History in the Vicinity of the South Everson Creek and Black Canyon Creek Archaeological Sites, Southwestern Montana M.D. Turner, J.C. Turner, andR. Bonnichsen 137 Southwestern Montana Prehistoric Quarry Aerial Reconnaissance Survey E.J. Zeller, G. Dreshoff, M.D. Turner, andJ.e. Turner 139

Special Focus-South America Further excavations in Limestone in Interior Bahia, Brazil A.L BryanandR. Gruhn 141 Paleoindians in the Patagonian Region: Los Toldos Archaeological Locality, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina A.R. Cardich, LL Miotti, andA.S. Castro 145 Recent Research at Localities Cerro La China and Cerro EI Sombrero, Argentina N. Flegenheimer 148 Paleoclimates of the Southern Argentine Andes V. Markgraf 150 Cueva del Medio: A Significative Paleoindian Site in Southern South America H.G. Nami 157 Man and Pleistocene Megamammals in the Argentine Pampa: Site 2 at Arroyo Seco G.G. Politis, E.P. Tonni, F. Fidalgo, M.C. Salemme, and LM. Meo Guzman 159 Alluvial and Palynological Studies in the Venezuelan Guayana Shield e. Schubert, andM.L Salgado-Labouriau 162

Dissertations 167

Author Index 169

Information for Contributors 171

General Index 175

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