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Contents

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Archaeology

Archaeological Investigations at the Brockway Site in Central Maine RN. Bartone, D.E. Putnam, and j.B. Petersen. The Upper Paleolithic of Northeast Asia and its Relevance to the First Americans: A Personal View G.A. Clark. 3 Early Paleoindian Site Reconnaissance in the Lower Yellowstone Badlands Area, Southern Montana LB. Davis, and S.A. Aaberg- 7 Paleoindians in Transmontane Southwestern Montana: The Barton Gulch Occupations, Ruby River Drainage LB. Davis, SA. Aaberg, and S.T. Greiser- 9 Stewart's Cattle Guard: A Folsom Site in Southcentral Colorado M.A. Jodry andDJ. Stanford- II Recent Advances in Pleistocene Archaeology in Northern]apan G T. Keal/y. 13 A Possible 18,000 Year Old Hunting and Fishing Camp on the Texas Coastal Plain GR. Lewis- 15 The Yellow Hawk Site: A Clovis Quarry Workshop in North-Central Texas RJ. Mal/ouf 17 A Stratigraphic Sequence at Sharrow Site in Central Maine j.B. Petersen, T.R. Baker, and MJ. Heckenberger- 19 The Drake Clovis Cache DJ. Stanford and M.A. Jodry. 21 Recent Excavations at the Udora Site: A Gainey/Clovis Occupation Site in Southern Ontario PL Storck. 23

Lithic Studies

Paleoindian Tradition Fluted Points in Montana LB. Davis-. 25 Paleoindian Obsidian Artifact. from Texas: A Review T.R. Hester. 27 Burins from the Cummins Paleoindian Site, Thunder Bay, Ontario PJ.Julig. 29

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The Raw Material Used by the Paleoindians of the Cueva Del Medio, Ultima Esperanza, Chile H. G. Nami and A.M. Case. 31 Formalized Point Resharpening: A Paleoindian Example from Southern Utah RM. Ryan and D.R KeliRr. 32 The Exploitation Frontier of Hixton Quartzite KB. Tankersley. 34 Engineering Use-Wear Studies of Early Paleoindian Tools j. Tomenchuk. 35 Secondary Use of a Folsom Point at the Foley Site in Wyoming A.M. Tratebas. 37

Methods

Archaeological Taphomomy R. Bonnichsen. 39 Accelerator l4C Dating of Late Pleistocene Megafauna TW Stafford,Jr.. 41

Paleoenvironments: Plants

Preliminary Opal Phytolith Analysis of Modern Analogs from Parklands, Mixed Forests, and Selected Conifer Stands in Prince Albert National Park, Saskatchewan S.R Bozarth. 45 Late Wisconsin Macroscopic Remains of Pinyon Pine on the Southern Colorado Plateau, Arizona S.K Cinnamon and RH. Hevly. 47 Use of Green Algae Abundances for Augmenting Palynological Interpretation j.K Huber. 48 Thaw Lake Development and Its Effect on Plant Macrofossil Deposition j.G. Kidd. 50 Use of Algae for Inferring Paleolimnologic Water Quality B. W Liukkonen andj.K Huber. 52 Palynological Studies in the Venezuelan Guayana Shield: Preliminary V Rull, C. Schubert, and R Aravena. 54

Paleoenvironments: Invertebrates

Pilot Study of Fossil Beetles at the Lubbock Lake Landmark S. Elias and E. Johnson. 57 Mollusks Associated with Articulated Vertebrate Remains from Rancho La Brea R. V Lamb and G.TJefferson . 59 Biostratigraphy and Paleoecology of Ostracodes ITom Pleistocene Lake Manix, Central Mojave Desert California Jj. SteinmetJ.and G.TJefferson. 61

Paleoenvironments: Vertebrates

Guanaco Indexes: Their Implications for the Study of Other Ungulates LA. Borrero. 63 Illinoian Age Fossil Birds of Eastern Nebraska R.M. ChandiRrand LD. Martin. 64

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The First Individual Skeleton of Smi/;)don from Rancho La Brea 5.M. Cox and G.T Jefferson. 66 Dental Metrics of Mammuthus in the Non-Glacial Regions of North America j. P. Dudley. 68 Bone Litter from an Alaskan Pleistocene Carnivore Den R.D. Guthrie. 69 Bears and Man at Porcupine Cave, Western Uinta Mountains, Utah TH. Heaton. 71 Ontario Fossil Cervids: Neglected Data and Dating LJ. Jackson and H. McKillop. 73 The Distribution of Mammut Americanum (Mastodon) and Mammuthus W e. Johnson and EJ. KosI. . 75 A New Cavity Biota from Northeastern Utah M.E. Nelson. 77 Late Irvingtonian Ondatra in Nebraska: the Identity of the Hay Springs Muskrat M.R. VoorhiesandR.G. Corner. 78

Paleoenvironments: Geosciences

Discrepancy in Termination of Pinedale Glaciation, Wind River, Mountains, Colorado D.E. Dahms. 81 Late Glacial Loess Stratigraphy and Archaeology in the Nenana Valley,Central Alaska j.F. Hoffecker, e.F. Waythomas, and WR. Powers. 83 Dating the Lower Member of the Domebo Formation in Western Oklahoma j.L. Hofman. 86 A Rhythmite Sequence from Glacial Lake Upham, Northeast Minnesota j.K. Huber,j. Ballantyne, and D. Dorland. 88 Dating Late Quaternary Deposits in the Alpine of Western Wyoming by Soil Stratigraphy We. Mahaney. 89 Late Quaternary Sedimentation in the Republican River Basin, South-Central Nebraska e. W Martin. 92 The Seaman Reservior Mammoth Locality (5LR1O98) North Fork Cache La Poudre River, Colorado M. McFaul, CJ. Zier, and E. Anderson. 94 A Long Pleistocene Glacial Sequence in Southwestern Montana M.D. TuT1U!T,j.e.Turner, andR. Bonnichsen. 96 Implications of the Alluvial Record of the Santa Cruz River to the Discovery of Paleoindian and Early Archaic Sites in the Tucson Basin M.R. Watm. 98 Preliminary Geoarchaeological Studies in Loess of the Lanzhou Area, Gansu Province, People's Republic of China M.e. Wilson. 100

Special Focus: Bone Modification

Aspects of Bone Modification Applied to Time Resolution in the Fossil Record-An Example from the Miocene of Western Nebraska A.R. Fioril/;). 103, Saw Marks on Pleistocene Megafaunal Remains from Alaska R.D. Guthrie and A. Greenwalt. 109

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Author Index. 113

Information for Contributors . 115 General Index. .119

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