Don G Wyckoff
Biographic Data
| ID | 206005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don G Wyckoff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don G |
| FAMILY NAME | Wyckoff |
| SIGNATURE | WYCKOFF D G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Long-distance conveyance of California obsidian at the Hayhurst lithic cache site (34ML168) in Oklahoma
A piece of obsidian was found during excavations of a possible Middle Holocene Calf Creek biface cache at site 34ML168 in Oklahoma. Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the obsidian flake shows that the source material derives from Glass Mountain in California. This is the first instance of California obsidian in this region. However, most intriguing is that Glass Mountain erupted thousands of years after the presumed Calf Creek artif…
Knappable silcrete in the Cretaceous Antlers Formation of Oklahoma and Texas
Intertwined Legacies
(2008). Intertwined Legacies: The Wichita and Dr. Robert E. Bell. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 53, No. 208, pp. 377-380
Environmental significance of 13 C/ 12 C and 18 O/ 16 O ratios of modern land-snail shells from the southern great plains of North America
13 C/ 12 C and 18 O/ 16 O ratios of aragonite shells of modern land snails from the southern Great Plains of North America were measured for samples from twelve localities in a narrow east–west corridor that extended from the Flint Hills in North Central Oklahoma to the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico, USA. Across the study area, shell δ 18 O values (PDB scale) ranged from −4.1‰ to 1.2‰, while δ 13 C values rang…
Recent Lithic Technological Studies on the Southern Plains and Adjacent Regions Part I
In this, the first of a two-part series, lithic technological research sime 1990 is reviewed for the Southern Plains and their eastern and western borders. The study region is basically that covered in the 1990 monograph, From Mountain Peaks to Alligator Stomachs, compiled and written by Larry Banks. My review looks at the identification and sourcing of knappable stone in archaeological studies of how that material got reduced, transported, and u…
Distinguished Service Award
(2003). 2002 Distinguished Service Award. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 48, No. 184, pp. 1-2
The Caddo Chiefdoms
The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700-1835. David La Vere. ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 198 pp
The Calf Creek Horizon in Northwestern Oklahoma
The known occurrences of artifacts assigned to the Middle Holocene Calf Creek horizon in northwestern Oklahoma are reported. Despite intensive archaeological survey and the active recording of private collections within the region, Calf Creek artifacts are vanishingly rare between the Caprock Escarpment at the eastern edge of the Southern High Plains in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and the Redbed Plains of central Oklahoma. The few Calf Cree…
From Whence they Came
Long renowned for their clues to the presence and predatory abilities of North America’s earliest humans, Southern Plains sites with bison remains have provided vertebrate paleontologists with food for thought for nearly a century. Bison skulls from Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas figured prominently in early taxonomic schemes, ideas on bison evolution, and the chronology of geological deposits before radiocarbon dating. Now, in addition toinnumera…
Institute For Tertiary And Quaternary Studies 1997 Ter-Qua Symposium
"Institute For Tertiary And Quaternary Studies 1997 Ter-Qua Symposium." Plains Anthropologist, 41(158), p. 404
The Westfahl and Engle Bifaces
Western Oklahoma surface finds of two large bifaces raise questions about their function and cultural affiliation. Both are of flint from west-central Texas. A study of their technological attributes provides clues potentially linking them to Paleoindian and Archaic groups who inhabited the region. The Westfahl biface is interpreted to be an example of an “ultra-thin” biface associated with Southern Plains Folsomassemblages. The larger, thicker E…
Gravel sources of knappable alibates silicified dolomite
Alibates silicified dolomite is one of the principal knappable lithic materials indigenous to the Southern High Plains. Prehistorically, this material was extensively quarried along the Canadian River in Potter County, Texas. Some of these quarries are preserved in what is now the Alibates National Monument. Archaeologists working in Oklahoma traditionally interpret artifacts of Alibates silicified dolomite as evidence for long distance trade. Ho…
Images on shell
Phillips, Philip, and James A. Brown with the collaboration of Eliza McFadden, Barbara C. Page, and Jeffrey P. Brain. Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Parts 1–2. Cambridge: Peabody Museum Press, 1978–1984. Part 1 (Volumes I‐III): xvi + 513 pp. including maps, illustrations, and references. $35.00 paper. Part 2 (Volumes IV‐VI): xlii + 474 pp. including references, illustrations, and index. $35.00 paper
Caddoan Settlement Patterns in the Arkansas River Drainage
Secondary Forest Succession Following Abandonment of Mesa Verde
Relative increases of juniper and pine pollen have previously been observed in post-Puebloan abandonment deposits at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and have been attributed to secondary forest succession. However, the magnitude of these increases could not be determined from pollen percentages.Pollen analysis of soil samples from Mummy Lake, a Pueblo II-III reservoir on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, yielded a pollen diagram extending from Puebloa…
Recent Lithic Technological Studies on the Southern Plains and Adjacent Regions Part I
In this, the first of a two-part series, lithic technological research sime 1990 is reviewed for the Southern Plains and their eastern and western borders. The study region is basically that covered in the 1990 monograph, From Mountain Peaks to Alligator Stomachs, compiled and written by Larry Banks. My review looks at the identification and sourcing of knappable stone in archaeological studies of how that material got reduced, transported, and u…
Gravel sources of knappable alibates silicified dolomite
Alibates silicified dolomite is one of the principal knappable lithic materials indigenous to the Southern High Plains. Prehistorically, this material was extensively quarried along the Canadian River in Potter County, Texas. Some of these quarries are preserved in what is now the Alibates National Monument. Archaeologists working in Oklahoma traditionally interpret artifacts of Alibates silicified dolomite as evidence for long distance trade. Ho…
Secondary Forest Succession Following Abandonment of Mesa Verde
Relative increases of juniper and pine pollen have previously been observed in post-Puebloan abandonment deposits at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and have been attributed to secondary forest succession. However, the magnitude of these increases could not be determined from pollen percentages.Pollen analysis of soil samples from Mummy Lake, a Pueblo II-III reservoir on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, yielded a pollen diagram extending from Puebloa…
The Calf Creek Horizon in Northwestern Oklahoma
The known occurrences of artifacts assigned to the Middle Holocene Calf Creek horizon in northwestern Oklahoma are reported. Despite intensive archaeological survey and the active recording of private collections within the region, Calf Creek artifacts are vanishingly rare between the Caprock Escarpment at the eastern edge of the Southern High Plains in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and the Redbed Plains of central Oklahoma. The few Calf Cree…
Long-distance conveyance of California obsidian at the Hayhurst lithic cache site (34ML168) in Oklahoma
A piece of obsidian was found during excavations of a possible Middle Holocene Calf Creek biface cache at site 34ML168 in Oklahoma. Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the obsidian flake shows that the source material derives from Glass Mountain in California. This is the first instance of California obsidian in this region. However, most intriguing is that Glass Mountain erupted thousands of years after the presumed Calf Creek artif…
From Whence they Came
Long renowned for their clues to the presence and predatory abilities of North America’s earliest humans, Southern Plains sites with bison remains have provided vertebrate paleontologists with food for thought for nearly a century. Bison skulls from Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas figured prominently in early taxonomic schemes, ideas on bison evolution, and the chronology of geological deposits before radiocarbon dating. Now, in addition toinnumera…
Secondary Forest Succession Following Abandonment of Mesa Verde
Relative increases of juniper and pine pollen have previously been observed in post-Puebloan abandonment deposits at Mesa Verde, Colorado, and have been attributed to secondary forest succession. However, the magnitude of these increases could not be determined from pollen percentages.Pollen analysis of soil samples from Mummy Lake, a Pueblo II-III reservoir on Chapin Mesa, Mesa Verde National Park, yielded a pollen diagram extending from Puebloa…
Caddoan Settlement Patterns in the Arkansas River Drainage
Images on shell
Phillips, Philip, and James A. Brown with the collaboration of Eliza McFadden, Barbara C. Page, and Jeffrey P. Brain. Shell Engravings from the Craig Mound at Spiro, Oklahoma, Parts 1–2. Cambridge: Peabody Museum Press, 1978–1984. Part 1 (Volumes I‐III): xvi + 513 pp. including maps, illustrations, and references. $35.00 paper. Part 2 (Volumes IV‐VI): xlii + 474 pp. including references, illustrations, and index. $35.00 paper
Gravel sources of knappable alibates silicified dolomite
Alibates silicified dolomite is one of the principal knappable lithic materials indigenous to the Southern High Plains. Prehistorically, this material was extensively quarried along the Canadian River in Potter County, Texas. Some of these quarries are preserved in what is now the Alibates National Monument. Archaeologists working in Oklahoma traditionally interpret artifacts of Alibates silicified dolomite as evidence for long distance trade. Ho…
Institute For Tertiary And Quaternary Studies 1997 Ter-Qua Symposium
"Institute For Tertiary And Quaternary Studies 1997 Ter-Qua Symposium." Plains Anthropologist, 41(158), p. 404
The Westfahl and Engle Bifaces
Western Oklahoma surface finds of two large bifaces raise questions about their function and cultural affiliation. Both are of flint from west-central Texas. A study of their technological attributes provides clues potentially linking them to Paleoindian and Archaic groups who inhabited the region. The Westfahl biface is interpreted to be an example of an “ultra-thin” biface associated with Southern Plains Folsomassemblages. The larger, thicker E…
From Whence they Came
Long renowned for their clues to the presence and predatory abilities of North America’s earliest humans, Southern Plains sites with bison remains have provided vertebrate paleontologists with food for thought for nearly a century. Bison skulls from Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas figured prominently in early taxonomic schemes, ideas on bison evolution, and the chronology of geological deposits before radiocarbon dating. Now, in addition toinnumera…
The Calf Creek Horizon in Northwestern Oklahoma
The known occurrences of artifacts assigned to the Middle Holocene Calf Creek horizon in northwestern Oklahoma are reported. Despite intensive archaeological survey and the active recording of private collections within the region, Calf Creek artifacts are vanishingly rare between the Caprock Escarpment at the eastern edge of the Southern High Plains in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and the Redbed Plains of central Oklahoma. The few Calf Cree…
The Caddo Chiefdoms
The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics and Politics, 700-1835. David La Vere. ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 198 pp
Distinguished Service Award
(2003). 2002 Distinguished Service Award. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 48, No. 184, pp. 1-2
Environmental significance of 13 C/ 12 C and 18 O/ 16 O ratios of modern land-snail shells from the southern great plains of North America
13 C/ 12 C and 18 O/ 16 O ratios of aragonite shells of modern land snails from the southern Great Plains of North America were measured for samples from twelve localities in a narrow east–west corridor that extended from the Flint Hills in North Central Oklahoma to the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in Northern New Mexico, USA. Across the study area, shell δ 18 O values (PDB scale) ranged from −4.1‰ to 1.2‰, while δ 13 C values rang…
Recent Lithic Technological Studies on the Southern Plains and Adjacent Regions Part I
In this, the first of a two-part series, lithic technological research sime 1990 is reviewed for the Southern Plains and their eastern and western borders. The study region is basically that covered in the 1990 monograph, From Mountain Peaks to Alligator Stomachs, compiled and written by Larry Banks. My review looks at the identification and sourcing of knappable stone in archaeological studies of how that material got reduced, transported, and u…
Intertwined Legacies
(2008). Intertwined Legacies: The Wichita and Dr. Robert E. Bell. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 53, No. 208, pp. 377-380
Knappable silcrete in the Cretaceous Antlers Formation of Oklahoma and Texas
Long-distance conveyance of California obsidian at the Hayhurst lithic cache site (34ML168) in Oklahoma
A piece of obsidian was found during excavations of a possible Middle Holocene Calf Creek biface cache at site 34ML168 in Oklahoma. Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the obsidian flake shows that the source material derives from Glass Mountain in California. This is the first instance of California obsidian in this region. However, most intriguing is that Glass Mountain erupted thousands of years after the presumed Calf Creek artif…
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