Danny N Walker
Biographic Data
| ID | 4014611 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Danny N Walker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Danny N |
| FAMILY NAME | Walker |
| SIGNATURE | WALKER D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wyoming |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
An incised travertine artifact from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an…
Where's the Mutton
Francis et alia (2022) propose that the Sheep Mountain net (48PA1022) was used for large game; however, they present no data to support this proposed function. The size and configuration of the net fall within the range for rabbit nets recorded elsewhere
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
Paleoecology and taphonomy of late Pleistocene Dicrostonyx from Wyoming caves
Further Insights Into Paleoindian Use of the Powars Ii Red Ocher Quarry (48pl330), Wyoming
We report major new insights from recent research at the Powars II Paleoindian red ocher quarry (48PL330). We salvaged more than 7,000 artifacts from Powars II between 2014 and 2016 by screening redeposited sediment from the talus slope below the intact portion of the site. Clovis artifacts dominate the diagnostic artifact assemblage, including 53 Clovis points, 33 preforms, and artifacts associated with a previously unrecognized blade core indus…
Multi-component Paleoindian surface sites in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming
The Wyoming Basin contains several smaller depressions one of which is the Great Divide Basin formed by the Continental Divide that splits, resulting in internal drainage area of nearly 11,000 km2. The lowest elevation of the Great Divide Basin is at the Chain Lakes Flat and is the location of numerous playas. In this 140 km2 are four surface concentrations of Paleoindian materials beginning with Folsom and ending with Late Paleoindian. Based on …
L’art mobilier paléoindien du Wyoming (États‐Unis)
Les premiers chercheurs à avoir étudié l’art rupestre du Wyoming ne mesuraient pas la durée d’occupation de la région. David Gebbard créa la première chronologie des manifestations artistiques pour le Wyoming, une séquence relative de quatre styles sur la base des superpositions. Plus récemment, Ron Dorn, Julie Francis et Larry Loendorf ont publié une chronologie à partir de dates radiométriques, des proportions de cation et de la microlamination…
Paleoindian Portable Art from Wyoming (USA)
Paleoindian portable art, while sparse, has been reported from several Wyoming localities, both dated and undated, and with good archaeological provenience or no established provenience. Additional examples have been recovered from many later Holocene sites. Media for these art objects include sandstone, steatite, bison bone, and mammoth ivory. Techniques ranged from light incision and deep scoring to pecking, and motifs ranged from abstract to a…
Pleistocene and. Holocene Records of Antilocapra Americana
FAUNMAP is an electronic database documenting the late Quaternary (Pleistocene and Holocene) distribution of mammal species in the United States, developed at the Illinois State Museum with support from the National Science Foundation. The primary purpose of the database is to investigate evolution of mammalian communities, although individual species distributions are readily examined. With a Geographic Information System (GIS), changes in the d…
Plains Anthropological Society Board of Directors
The 1995 Plains Anthropological Society Distinguished Service Award
Horner Site Local Fauna
Studies on Amerindian dogs, 3
The Vore Site Local Fauna
Twelve species of vertebrate animals have been recorded for the Vore Site Local Fauna, Bison being the most common form with estimates of individuals present lying between 15,000 and 25,000 animals. Candidae are the second most common group. Discriminant function analyses performed on the canid skulls has shown them to be part of a local population of wolf Idog hybrids with incipient domestication of that population appearing to be ongoing throug…
Paleo-Indian Procurement of Camelops on the Northwestern Plains
Camelops have been recorded in a number of Paleo-Indian sites that lack evidence of past procurement methods. Recently, two occurrences of Camelops remains have been recorded in Paleo-Indian animal kills in Wyoming. One kill situation was in a Hell Gap cultural context that produced remains of a single Camelops taken along with about 100 bison in a parabolic sand dune trap. The other Camelops was in a Clovis cultural context and deals with a sing…
Non-Bison Remains from the Vore Bison Jump, Crook County, Wyoming
The Vore. Bison Jump is a multi-component Late-Preh1stonc B1son kill site in the Black Hills of Crook County, Wyoming. Examination of the non Bison revealed a large number of carnivores, mainly wolves. Analysis of these wolf remains showed a need for more careful identification of canid remains from archaeological sites in light of incipient domestication of wolves at this site
Studies on Amerindian dogs, 3
Further Insights Into Paleoindian Use of the Powars Ii Red Ocher Quarry (48pl330), Wyoming
We report major new insights from recent research at the Powars II Paleoindian red ocher quarry (48PL330). We salvaged more than 7,000 artifacts from Powars II between 2014 and 2016 by screening redeposited sediment from the talus slope below the intact portion of the site. Clovis artifacts dominate the diagnostic artifact assemblage, including 53 Clovis points, 33 preforms, and artifacts associated with a previously unrecognized blade core indus…
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
Multi-component Paleoindian surface sites in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming
The Wyoming Basin contains several smaller depressions one of which is the Great Divide Basin formed by the Continental Divide that splits, resulting in internal drainage area of nearly 11,000 km2. The lowest elevation of the Great Divide Basin is at the Chain Lakes Flat and is the location of numerous playas. In this 140 km2 are four surface concentrations of Paleoindian materials beginning with Folsom and ending with Late Paleoindian. Based on …
Non-Bison Remains from the Vore Bison Jump, Crook County, Wyoming
The Vore. Bison Jump is a multi-component Late-Preh1stonc B1son kill site in the Black Hills of Crook County, Wyoming. Examination of the non Bison revealed a large number of carnivores, mainly wolves. Analysis of these wolf remains showed a need for more careful identification of canid remains from archaeological sites in light of incipient domestication of wolves at this site
Non-Bison Remains from the Vore Bison Jump, Crook County, Wyoming
The Vore. Bison Jump is a multi-component Late-Preh1stonc B1son kill site in the Black Hills of Crook County, Wyoming. Examination of the non Bison revealed a large number of carnivores, mainly wolves. Analysis of these wolf remains showed a need for more careful identification of canid remains from archaeological sites in light of incipient domestication of wolves at this site
Paleo-Indian Procurement of Camelops on the Northwestern Plains
Camelops have been recorded in a number of Paleo-Indian sites that lack evidence of past procurement methods. Recently, two occurrences of Camelops remains have been recorded in Paleo-Indian animal kills in Wyoming. One kill situation was in a Hell Gap cultural context that produced remains of a single Camelops taken along with about 100 bison in a parabolic sand dune trap. The other Camelops was in a Clovis cultural context and deals with a sing…
The Vore Site Local Fauna
Twelve species of vertebrate animals have been recorded for the Vore Site Local Fauna, Bison being the most common form with estimates of individuals present lying between 15,000 and 25,000 animals. Candidae are the second most common group. Discriminant function analyses performed on the canid skulls has shown them to be part of a local population of wolf Idog hybrids with incipient domestication of that population appearing to be ongoing throug…
Studies on Amerindian dogs, 3
Horner Site Local Fauna
The 1995 Plains Anthropological Society Distinguished Service Award
Pleistocene and. Holocene Records of Antilocapra Americana
FAUNMAP is an electronic database documenting the late Quaternary (Pleistocene and Holocene) distribution of mammal species in the United States, developed at the Illinois State Museum with support from the National Science Foundation. The primary purpose of the database is to investigate evolution of mammalian communities, although individual species distributions are readily examined. With a Geographic Information System (GIS), changes in the d…
Plains Anthropological Society Board of Directors
L’art mobilier paléoindien du Wyoming (États‐Unis)
Les premiers chercheurs à avoir étudié l’art rupestre du Wyoming ne mesuraient pas la durée d’occupation de la région. David Gebbard créa la première chronologie des manifestations artistiques pour le Wyoming, une séquence relative de quatre styles sur la base des superpositions. Plus récemment, Ron Dorn, Julie Francis et Larry Loendorf ont publié une chronologie à partir de dates radiométriques, des proportions de cation et de la microlamination…
Paleoindian Portable Art from Wyoming (USA)
Paleoindian portable art, while sparse, has been reported from several Wyoming localities, both dated and undated, and with good archaeological provenience or no established provenience. Additional examples have been recovered from many later Holocene sites. Media for these art objects include sandstone, steatite, bison bone, and mammoth ivory. Techniques ranged from light incision and deep scoring to pecking, and motifs ranged from abstract to a…
Multi-component Paleoindian surface sites in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming
The Wyoming Basin contains several smaller depressions one of which is the Great Divide Basin formed by the Continental Divide that splits, resulting in internal drainage area of nearly 11,000 km2. The lowest elevation of the Great Divide Basin is at the Chain Lakes Flat and is the location of numerous playas. In this 140 km2 are four surface concentrations of Paleoindian materials beginning with Folsom and ending with Late Paleoindian. Based on …
Further Insights Into Paleoindian Use of the Powars Ii Red Ocher Quarry (48pl330), Wyoming
We report major new insights from recent research at the Powars II Paleoindian red ocher quarry (48PL330). We salvaged more than 7,000 artifacts from Powars II between 2014 and 2016 by screening redeposited sediment from the talus slope below the intact portion of the site. Clovis artifacts dominate the diagnostic artifact assemblage, including 53 Clovis points, 33 preforms, and artifacts associated with a previously unrecognized blade core indus…
Paleoecology and taphonomy of late Pleistocene Dicrostonyx from Wyoming caves
The Sheep Mountain Animal Net Revisited
A juniper fiber net discovered in a cave near Cody, Wyoming, had been radiocarbon dated at 8860 BP (6910 ± 170 BC; RL-396) in 1986. Reanalysis and four additional AMS radiocarbon dates indicate an age younger than 1300 cal BP. Net metrics are consistent with archaeological and ethnographic examples identified as rabbit nets
Where's the Mutton
Francis et alia (2022) propose that the Sheep Mountain net (48PA1022) was used for large game; however, they present no data to support this proposed function. The size and configuration of the net fall within the range for rabbit nets recorded elsewhere
An incised travertine artifact from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an…
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation (8 works) · Biology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Geology (7 works) · Paleontology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Evolution and Paleontology Studies (5 works)