CURRENT RESEARCH IN THE PLEISTOCENE Vol. 15, 1998

Contents

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Archaeology Paleoindian Archaeology at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico Daniel S. Amick, Raymond P. Mauldin, and Martyn D. Tagg ...... 1 Geographical Distribution of Hell Gap Projectile Points in Kansas and Oklahoma Joseph E. Beaver ...... 4 The Distribution of Cody : A Distinctive Trait of the Cody Complex Jeannette M. Blackmar ...... 6 Paijan and Fishtail Points from Quebrada Santa Maria, North Coast of Peru Claude Chauchat and Jesus Briceño ...... 10 An Early Stemmed Point Cache from the Lower Salmon River Canyon of West-Central Idaho Loren G. Davis and David A. Sisson ...... 12 Pit Features at the East Wenatchee Clovis Site and Elsewhere Richard Michael Gramly ...... 14 Probable Association of Paleoindian Artifacts and Mastodon Remains from Sloth Hole, Aucilla River, North Florida C. Andrew Hemmings ...... 16 An Inventory of Wisconsin Paleoindian Projectile Points at the Milwaukee Public Museum Matthew Glenn Hill, Daniel S. Amick, and Thomas J. Loebel ...... 18 New Data Pertaining to Swan Point, the Oldest Microblade Site Known in Alaska Charles E. Holmes ...... 21 The Plainville Point: Description of a Late-Paleoindian Type Lawrence J. Jackson ...... 23 El Vano, Venezuela: El Jobo Traditions in a Megathere Kill Site Arturo Jaimes Quero ...... 25 Paleoindian Tool-Stone Utilization in Eastern Oklahoma: An Argument for Limited Mobility Kenneth C. Kraft and Warren K. Lail ...... 27 Romer’s Rule and the Paleoindian/Archaic Transition Roger Marks La Jeunesse and John Howard Pryor ...... 29 Fluted Points, Mastodons, and Evidence of Late-Pleistocene Drought at the Hiscock Site, Western New York State Richard S. Laub and Gary Haynes ...... 32 The Quemado Lake Paleoindian Artifacts, West-Central New Mexico Jeff D. Leach, Bruce K. Moses, and Raymond P. Mauldin ...... 35

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More Evidence of Paleoindian Occupation of the DB Site, Northeastern Kansas Brad Logan, Virginia L. Hatfield, William C. Johnson, and Janice A. McLean ...... 37 Stratified Paleoindian Deposits at the Big Eddy Site, Southwest Missouri Neal H. Lopinot, Jack H. Ray, Edwin R. Hajic, and Rolfe E. Mandel ...... 39 Recent Field Research at the Folsom Site (29CX1), New Mexico David J. Meltzer, Vance T. Holliday, and Lawrence C. Todd ...... 42 1997 Excavations at the Martens Site, 23SL222 Julie Morrow ...... 45 Preliminary Results of Excavations and Analysis of Little River Rapids: A Prehistoric Inundated Site in North Florida Mark Muniz ...... 48 The Trull Site (40PY276): A Paleoindian-Mastodon Association in Tennessee Mark R. Norton, John B. Broster, and Emanuel Breitburg ...... 50 Paleolithic Excavations in Tsagaan Agui , Southern Mongolia John W. Olsen, Anatoly P. Derevianko, and Damdinsuren Tseveendorj ...... 51 Anzick-Style Fluted William L. Parsons and Kristen M. Parsons ...... 53 A New Fluted Stemmed Point from Belize and Its Implication for a Circum-Caribbean Paleoindian Culture Area Georges A. Pearson and Peter A. Bostrom ...... 55 The Varney Farm Site: Dating the Late-Paleoindian Period in Northeastern North America James B. Petersen and Belinda J. Cox ...... 57 Subsistence and Settlement Patterns during the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Northern Great Basin: The View from Dietz Basin Ariane Oberling Pinson ...... 60 Dating a Cody-complex Occupation in the River Quarries Matthew J. Root ...... 62 Toward a New Paleoenvironmental Interpretation of the Early-Paleoindian Period in the Southeast Michael W. Ruddell ...... 64 The French Connection: Investigating a Possible Clovis- Link Frédéric Sellet ...... 66 Preservation of the Paleoindian Record in Alluvial Fill, Northeastern Kansas Karen L. Willey, William C. Johnson, and John S. Isaacson ...... 68

Physical Anthropology Direct AMS Radiocarbon Dating on Human Bones from Baño Nuevo, Central Patagonian Andes, Chile Francisco Mena, Thomas W. Stafford, Jr., and John Southon ...... 71

Lithic Studies Barton Gulch Paleoindian Alder Complex Functional Analysis Leslie B. Davis, Marvin Kay, and Sally T. Greiser ...... 73 The Possible Design of Folsom Ultrathin Bifaces as Fillet Knives for Jerky Production Margaret A. Jodry ...... 75

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Folsom Use of Eastern New Mexico Look-alike Cherts on the Llano Estacado Philippe D. LeTourneau ...... 77 Patterns of Breakage and Methods of Fluted Point Manufacture in Northeast Illinois Thomas J. Loebel and Tim Dillard ...... 79 Technological Observations on the Paleoindian Artifacts from Fell’s Cave, Magallanes, Chile Hugo Gabriel Nami ...... 81 Reduction Strategy for Secondary Source Lithic Raw Materials at Guardiria (Turrialba), 9-FG-T, Costa Rica Georges A. Pearson ...... 84 The Crook County Clovis Cache Kenneth B. Tankersley ...... 86 Use-Wear Evidence from Southern Ontario for Heavy Woodworking during the Early-Paleoindian Period John Tomenchuk and Peter L. Storck ...... 89 Stone Raw Materials of Late-Pleistocene and Early-Holocene Russian Far Eastern Assemblages: Analytical Approach Irina Zhushchikhovskaya, Boris Zalishchak, and Vera Pakhomova ...... 91

Paleoenvironments: Plants Phytolith Analysis of Bison Teeth Calculus and Impacta from Sites in Kansas and Oklahoma Steven Bozarth and Jack Hofman ...... 95 A Late-Pleistocene/Holocene Transition from the Brule Spillway, Douglas County, Wisconsin Martin F. Engseth and James K. Huber ...... 97 A Pollen Sequence from Rocky Run Road Channel Lake, Portage County, Wisconsin James K. Huber ...... 98

Paleoenvironments: Vertebrates Fauna from Late-Pleistocene Sediments of the Sheriden Cave Site (33WY252), Wyandot County, Ohio Thomas M. Bills and H. Gregory McDonald ...... 101 Fossil Birds of Tunica Hills and First Record of Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus) for Louisiana Robert M. Chandler ...... 103 Schreger Angles in Mammoth and Mastodon Tusk Dentin Daniel C. Fisher, Josh Trapani, Jeheskel Shoshani, and Michael S. Woodford ...... 105 Evidence of Paleoenvironmental Change from Muskrat Dental Microwear Patterns María Gutierrez, Patrick Lewis, and Eileen Johnson ...... 107 Stratigraphy, AMS Radiocarbon Age, and Stable Isotope Biogeochemistry of the Lindsay Mammoth, Eastern Montana Christopher L. Hill and Leslie B. Davis ...... 109 Late-Pleistocene Fauna and Flora from the Loess of Central Nebraska Larry D. Martin and Richard Rogers ...... 112

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A Preliminary Report on the Dry Gulch Mammoth Site, Lincoln County, New Mexico Raymond Mauldin, Jeff D. Leach, H. Curtis Monger, Arthur H. Harris, and David Johnson ...... 114 Late-Pleistocene Mastodon and Digesta from Little River, North Florida Matthew C. Mihlbachler ...... 116 Tocuila, a Remarkable Mammoth Site in the Basin of Mexico Luis Morett A., Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, and Oscar J. Polaco ...... 118 A Late-Pleistocene/Early-Holocene Faunal Assemblage from the Page/Ladson Site (8JE591), Jefferson County, Florida Tanya M. Peres ...... 120 The American Mastodon in Mexico Oscar J. Polaco, Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales, and Baudelina García-Uranga ...... 122 Paleoenvironments, Cave Faunas, and Human Migration in Late-Pleistocene Beringia: A Comparison of Calibrated Age Ranges. Robert A. Sattler and Thomas E. Gillispie ...... 124 New Radiocarbon Dates for Vero Tapir and Stout-legged Llama from Florida S. David Webb, C. Andrew Hemmings, and Mark P. Muniz ...... 127

Paleoenvironments: Geosciences Late-Pleistocene and Holocene Paleoclimate Records from the Badain Jaran Desert, China Li Baosheng, Yan Mancun, Barry B. Miller, and Michael J. S. Tevesz ...... 129 Pocket Beaches and Oregon Coastal Leland Gilsen ...... 131 Geoarchaeological Variability between Two Central Iowa Drainage Basins Joseph R. Krieg, E. Arthur Bettis III, and Richard G. Baker ...... 132 The Age and Environment of the Paleolithic Occupation of Sakhalin Island, the Russian Far East Yaroslav V. Kuzmin, Aleksander A. Vasilevsky, Jeanette M. O’Malley, and A. J. Timothy Jull ...... 134 Geochronology of Sheriden Cave, Ohio: The 1997 Field Season Kenneth B. Tankersley and Carol S. Landefeld ...... 136 Late-Pleistocene Dunes along the Dempsey Divide, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma J. Peter Thurmond and Don G. Wyckoff ...... 139