John W Greer

Biographic Data

ID379303
NAMEJohn W Greer
GIVEN NAMESJohn W
FAMILY NAMEGreer
SIGNATUREGREER J W
AFFILIATIONSDepartment of Anthropology University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri 65201
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Redating the Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Golondrina Component at Baker Cave, Texas and Implications for the Dalton/Golondrina Expansion

    Thomas A Jennings, A M Smallwood et al.ARTICLEPaleoAmerica2016

    Golondrina is a lanceolate point type linked to the Southeastern Dalton tradition that emerged during the Paleoindian to Archaic transition in southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. The type remains imprecisely dated because only a handful of sites have yielded Golondrina points in buried, dateable contexts, and the few radiocarbon dates from these sites often have relatively large standard deviations. In this paper, we present new radiocarbon d…

  • Arminto Petroglyphs

    James D Keyser, Mavis Greer et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2005References: 1

    Detailed figure recording in 2002 indicates engraved figures are suffering from erosion caused by wind-blown sand from adjacent well pad construction. Approximately 27% of one figure has been lost in the last 20 years. Eventual loss of the two remaining horse figures will amount to loss of about 10% of all known North American armored horse petroglyphs, and 20% of those recorded on the northern Plains. Management agencies should consider mitigati…

  • Reply to Kehoe

    Mavis Greer, John W Greer et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2004Cited by: 1References: 3

    Kehoe’s comments (2004) underscore the controversial and divisive nature of rock art research, especially application of the neuropsychological model of Lewis-Williams and Dowson (1988). In contrast to her assumptions, we are familiar with controversy surrounding the model, and we do not insinuate that all rock art sites are the work of shamans. Our article (Greer and Greer 2003) was limited to showing possible congruence between the model and a …

  • A Test for Shamanic Trance in Central Montana Rock Art

    Mavis Greer, John W Greer et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist2003Cited by: 5References: 3

    Pictographs believed to result from shamanic trance activities occur in some central Montana rock art sites. Symbolic self-portraits of shamans, with identification based on ethnographic analogy, are considered the most basic artistic evidence of shamanism. However, when attempting to infer shamanistic activity from rock art, it is necessary to test function with as many models as possible. Pictographs in Dillinger Cave (24CA346) in central Monta…

  • A Late Archaic Burial From Southwestern Texas

    John W GreerARTICLEPlains Anthropologist1976Cited by: 1

    A unique rockshelter burial in southwestern Texas contained a 35 year old male placed in asitting position in a pit lined with matting. Remains of a woven stick and grass structure were over the burial pit. Affiliation is late Archaic and dates ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 200

  • Notes On Bison In Val Verde County, Texas

    John W GreerARTICLEPlains Anthropologist1976References: 1

    Bison remains from deeply stratified deposits at the Castle Canyon Site, an area of southwestern Texas where bison remains are outstandingly rare, date about 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1000. The last bison known in the area died about 1885. It is suggested that environmental conditions in the area may not have changed, and that presence-absence periods might rather reflect changing conditions on the Central or Northern Plains. These data do not alter Dilleha…

  • Incised and Painted Pebbles from the Levi Site, Travis County, Texas

    John W Greer, Patricia A Treat et al.ARTICLEPlains Anthropologist1975Cited by: 1

    Altered streamworn pebbles have been found in the Pedernales River drainage of inentral Texas. Three pebbles have linear black painted designs; eight others have one to 12 very fine parallel incised lines and are distinctively different from previously described forms. An additional specimen is both painted and incised in such a way as to suggest that the two techniques are related. Distributional data tentatively suggest association with the Aus…

  • Micro-Eccentrics from the Four Corners Region of the Southwest

    John W GreerARTICLEKIVA1969

    Sixteen differing examples of a notched stone flake artifact type, termed a micro-eccentric, are described from the Southwest. The archaeological associations, and geographical and temporal distributions of the specimens arc summarized. Their function and cultural relationships are considered

  • Midden Circles versus Mescal Pits

    Open AccessJohn W GreerARTICLEAmerican Antiquity1967

    An important distinction is here made between two types of Southwestern sites, each of which appears on the surface as a doughnut-shaped midden of burned rock with a depressed ashy center. 'Midden circles' are debris thrown back from a central hearth lying on the ground surface. 'Mescal pits' have central pits dug below the natural ground surface and are the remains of earth ovens