George A Agogino
Biographic Data
| ID | 93928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George A Agogino |
| GIVEN NAMES | George A |
| FAMILY NAME | Agogino |
| SIGNATURE | AGOGINO G A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern New Mexico University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Reflections on a Half-Century of Dust and Dirt
Dr. George Allen Agogino died September 11, 2000, at the age of 79 after a three-year battle with cancer. He loved to write. Always looking forward to another publication, he was working on finishing this paper just prior to his death. His wife, Mercedes Agogino, and daughter, Karen Agogino, know he would have liked to have his story of Paleoindian research included along with those of his friends and colleagues, so we have completed this paper f…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C.: The oldest prehistoric well in America
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
A Clovis well at the type site 11,500 B.C: The oldest prehistoric well in America
An enigmatic circular pit uncovered during archaeological excavations at the Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, in 1964 has been reexposed and posited as a water well excavated by Clovis people around 11,500 B.C. The prehistoric well, the oldest in the New World, was probably a dry hole. Other Clovis wells may exist in the area. The excavation of wells near where there had been surface water shortly before adds to the evidence for dro…
Obituary
Cynthia Irwin-Williams 1936-1990
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Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site
F. E. Green has corrected errors regarding the provenience and prior determination of the artifactual nature of the ivory semifabricate reported by Saunders et al. (1990) and has brought forth new information regarding the spring deposits of the north bank of the gravel pit at the Clovis site. This statement addresses the contemporaneity of Clovis occupation with deposition of the gray sand and the relation of the gray sand to spring deposits. We…
A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America
Folsom Biface Manufacture, Retooling, and Site Function at the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw
Results of recent investigations at the Mitchell Localityin eastern New Mexico are reported. Current findings reveal that areas adjacent to Blackwater Locality No. 1 were utilized by Folsom hunter-gatherers as campsites, thus defusing long-held notions of Blackwater Draw as a Paleoindian kill site only. Our first year’s excavations have produced over 3,500 pieces of flake debitage, a multitude of finished stone implements, conjoinable biface frag…
Oscar Howe: Sioux Artist
The Stolle Mammoth: A Possible Clovis Kill-Site
Agate Basin Technology: An Insight
An example of a serrate biface from the Agate Basin level of the Hell Gap site is examined from a technological and use-wear analytic perspective. Two possible explanations for marginal serration, to produce a "sawlike edge" or for platform isolation, are evaluated. Results of this evaluation suggest that platform isolation is a more plausible explanation in this case. This explanation may imply technological/cultural continuity between Folsom an…
A Reexamination of Spring Deposited Lithics from Blackwater Draw Locality N0.1
Archaeological’ excavations at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 from 1962 to 1964 uncovered a number of spring conduits. Several of these contained very high concentrations of Paleo-Indian lithic materials, which exhibited a high polish on their surfaces. Investigations of this phenomenon (Haynes and Agogino 1966) have suggested thatthe distributions and concentration of lithics within spring conduits. are the result of intentional discard (possibl…
Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
The Alleged Diffusion of Hindu Divine Symbols into Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: A Critique [and Comments and Reply]
Parallels between certain religous symbols in Hindu and Mesoamerican cultures have been drawn by three modern writers and adduced as evidence suggestive of trans-Pacific diffusion of Hindu influences dating to about the mid-1st millennium A.D. and later. The symbols concerned are those of the deities of the lunar asterisms and the planets-the naksatra and navagrahah series, respectively-of the Hindus as compared with the structural features and s…
Blackwater Draw Locality No.1, South Bank: Report For The Summer Of 1974
Recent excavations at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 have resulted in clarification of theMiddle Plano horizon of the Carbonaceous Silts stratum. The 1974 field session at the South Bank of Locality No. 1 involved the excavation of a large amount of faunal material, includingthat of bison, turtle, bear, horse, and rodents. The range of artifacts found in association with Bison occidentalis remains at Locality No. 1 leads to a re-examination of th…
Eleanor C. Irwin
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Hell Gap: Paleo-Indian Occupation on the High Plains
A resume of archaeological investigations in the Hell Gap Valley of southeastern Wyoming is presented. This research produced a detailed sequence of Plains PaleoIndian occupation of this section of the High Plains. from about 9000 to 5500 B.C. Identifiable complexes recognized include Goshen, Midland, Folsom, Agate Basin, Hell Gap, Alberta, Cody, and Frederick. Materials recovered represent camping activities rather than the better known game kil…
Continuity and Emergence in Indian Poverty Culture [and Comments and Reply]
A relatively conservative cultural model of the Ojibwa, deriving from studies of Canadian peoples, has tended to dominate anthropological analysis of reservation Ojibwa both in the United States and Canada. Ethnopsychological approaches to Ojibwa history have focused professional attention on the persistence of relatively unimportant surviving remnants of Ojibwa culture and distracted it from more important contemporary sociological factors that …
Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Remains from Easter Island
Preliminary Report of a Stratified Post-Folsom Sequence at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Little is known of the post-Folsom sequence at Blackwater Draw, Locality No. 1, in spite of over 30 years of intermittent excavation by major institutions at this site location. Until recently it has been lumped under the name of the 'Portales complex' under which several culture complexes were grouped as a single entity. This paper makes an initial attempt to separate these cultures in chronological sequence
The Midland Complex: Is It Valid
The Midland point has the same general shape, size, and typological manufacture as the unfluted Folsom point and may represent a minor style variation within a single cultural complex. The Paleo-Indians who made both Midland (unfluted Folsom) and classical Folsom points occupy nearly identical time spans and have nearly identical associated tools. While individual sites have been found with all Midland and all Classic Folsom projectiles, many Fol…
The Experimental Removal of Preservative from Radiocarbon Samples
A bone sample treated with nitrated preservative, like that in common use by archeologists, was chemicallywashed prior to submission, with a control sample, for radiocarbon assay. An apparently correct date was obtained for the “clean” specimen, more than 4,000 years older than the control sample coated with preservative
The Cohonina Culture of Mount Floyd, Arizona
An Osteologic Study of Twenty-Nine Human Skulls from the Guajira Peninsula Region of Colombia-Venezuela
Craniometric data is presented for two series of skulls.In the year 193 5 a joint anthropological survey undertaken by Columbia University and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania uncovered 29 human skulls on the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia-Venezuela (Fig. 1) during research sponsored by the Latin-American Institute. The members of the expedition included: Dr. Vincenzo Petrullo, field director, and Mr. Lewis Korn, archeologis…
A Comparison of Whole and Fragmentary Paleo-Indian Points From Blackwater Draw
An analysis of differential breakage in a sample of Clovis, Agate Bas in and Folsom points suggests that the Clovis form is the most resistant to breakage and the fluted Folsom type the most fragile
The Fate of the "Classic" Neanderthals: A Consideration of Hominid Catastrophism [and Comments and Reply]
The Current View That the "Classic" Neanderthals Were an aberrant, specialized, or otherwise peculiar side branch which eventually became extinct without descendants has its origins in anti-evolutionary interpretations placed upon the available hominid fossils by the french palaeontologist marcellin boule in the early part of the current century. The theoretical bases of boule's thinking stem from the early nineteenth century position of George C…
Hell Gap: Paleo-Indian Occupation on the High Plains
A resume of archaeological investigations in the Hell Gap Valley of southeastern Wyoming is presented. This research produced a detailed sequence of Plains PaleoIndian occupation of this section of the High Plains. from about 9000 to 5500 B.C. Identifiable complexes recognized include Goshen, Midland, Folsom, Agate Basin, Hell Gap, Alberta, Cody, and Frederick. Materials recovered represent camping activities rather than the better known game kil…
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
Prehistory of the Eastern Highlands of New Guinea
The Midland Complex: Is It Valid
The Midland point has the same general shape, size, and typological manufacture as the unfluted Folsom point and may represent a minor style variation within a single cultural complex. The Paleo-Indians who made both Midland (unfluted Folsom) and classical Folsom points occupy nearly identical time spans and have nearly identical associated tools. While individual sites have been found with all Midland and all Classic Folsom projectiles, many Fol…
The Sister’s Hill Site: A Hell Gap Site In North-Central Wyoming
The cultural horizon at the Sister’s Hill Site has produced typical Hell Gap points and a small group of associated artifacts. The radiocarbon date of 9650 ± 250 B. C. is in agreement with late Agate Basin or early post Agate Basin sites in the High Plains. On the basis of the current data, Hell Gap points appear to have developed from Agate Basin styles and seem to be developmental to Alberta, Scottsbluff and Eden types
A Mammoth-Ivory Semifabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico
A carved segment of mammoth ivory recently recognized in a faunal collection from the Clovis type site at Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, reveals for the first time techniques employed by Clovis Paleoindians for working ivory and adds a new trait element shared between the archaeological cultures of the Eurasian Upper Paleolithic and the late Pleistocene Clovis complex of North America
Prehistoric Springs and Geochronology of the Clovis Site, New Mexico
Geologic investigation and radiocarbon dating of a newly exposed stratigraphic section at the famous Early Man site of Blackwater No. 1 (Clovis) in eastern New Mexico show the Brown Sand Wedge to be in part a contemporaneous facies of the Diatomaceous Earth (10,000 to 11,000 years old) and in part older (11,000 to 11,500 years old). The Gray Sand is probably more than 12,000 years old. Artifacts contained therein are concentrated in the upper 6 i…
A Paleo-Indian Bison-Kill in Northwestern Iowa
The lowest levels of the Simonsen site produced projectile points, scrapers, and knives in association with Bison occidentalis. The level is dated by radiocarbon at 6471 B.C. ± 520 years. The triangular, side-notched, and concave-based Simonsen point resembles points from the Turin and Hill sites in Iowa and the Logan Creek site in Nebraska. The close resemblances between the collections from the Simonsen site and the Logan Creek site, which is a…
Continuity and Emergence in Indian Poverty Culture [and Comments and Reply]
A relatively conservative cultural model of the Ojibwa, deriving from studies of Canadian peoples, has tended to dominate anthropological analysis of reservation Ojibwa both in the United States and Canada. Ethnopsychological approaches to Ojibwa history have focused professional attention on the persistence of relatively unimportant surviving remnants of Ojibwa culture and distracted it from more important contemporary sociological factors that …
Horned Owl Cave, Wyoming
Horned Owl Cave in the northern Laramie Mountains of Wyoming has provided a wide array of normally perishable artifacts in association with pictographs. Material objects recovered from the cave include fragments of atlatls, darts, shaft feathers, arrowshafts, blunt arrows, bark, weaving, bone tools, pottery, and lithic objects. The disturbed condition of the fill of the cave prevented a controlled stratigraphy, but typologically the material fall…
A New Point Type from Hell Gap Valley, Eastern Wyoming
The Hell Gap point, excavated from a cultural level dated by radiocarbon at 8890 B.C. (10,850±550 B.P.), is described by H. M. Wormington. It represents the oldest known cultural level at Hell Gap, an extensive multi-component quarry site occupied by paleo-Indian groups over a considerable period of time
Reply to F. E. Green's Comments on the Clovis Site
F. E. Green has corrected errors regarding the provenience and prior determination of the artifactual nature of the ivory semifabricate reported by Saunders et al. (1990) and has brought forth new information regarding the spring deposits of the north bank of the gravel pit at the Clovis site. This statement addresses the contemporaneity of Clovis occupation with deposition of the gray sand and the relation of the gray sand to spring deposits. We…
Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Remains from Easter Island
A Progress Report on a Pre-Ceramic Site at Rattlesnake Draw Eastern New Mexico
The Rattlesnake Draw site has produced both Paleo-Indian and Archaic artifacts in a concentrated area centering about a presently dry lake basin. In addition to the artifacts discovered, the investigators have found evidence of the construction of artificial wells during the archaic period. These wells are similar to those earlier discovered at Blackwater Draw, Locality One
Folsom Biface Manufacture, Retooling, and Site Function at the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw
Results of recent investigations at the Mitchell Localityin eastern New Mexico are reported. Current findings reveal that areas adjacent to Blackwater Locality No. 1 were utilized by Folsom hunter-gatherers as campsites, thus defusing long-held notions of Blackwater Draw as a Paleoindian kill site only. Our first year’s excavations have produced over 3,500 pieces of flake debitage, a multitude of finished stone implements, conjoinable biface frag…
Preliminary Report of a Stratified Post-Folsom Sequence at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1
Little is known of the post-Folsom sequence at Blackwater Draw, Locality No. 1, in spite of over 30 years of intermittent excavation by major institutions at this site location. Until recently it has been lumped under the name of the 'Portales complex' under which several culture complexes were grouped as a single entity. This paper makes an initial attempt to separate these cultures in chronological sequence
The Skulls from Torrington, Wyoming: A Re-evaluation
The Torrington skeletal material owes its suspected antiquity to its osteologic similarity to Minnesota Man. A recent study of the Torrington remains, based on laboratory analysis and grave artifacts, indicates that these burials are of late prehistoric age. These results reveal the danger of using morphological comparison, without supporting evidence, to establish chronological relationships
A Reexamination of Spring Deposited Lithics from Blackwater Draw Locality N0.1
Archaeological’ excavations at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 from 1962 to 1964 uncovered a number of spring conduits. Several of these contained very high concentrations of Paleo-Indian lithic materials, which exhibited a high polish on their surfaces. Investigations of this phenomenon (Haynes and Agogino 1966) have suggested thatthe distributions and concentration of lithics within spring conduits. are the result of intentional discard (possibl…
Blackwater Draw Locality No.1, South Bank: Report For The Summer Of 1974
Recent excavations at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 have resulted in clarification of theMiddle Plano horizon of the Carbonaceous Silts stratum. The 1974 field session at the South Bank of Locality No. 1 involved the excavation of a large amount of faunal material, includingthat of bison, turtle, bear, horse, and rodents. The range of artifacts found in association with Bison occidentalis remains at Locality No. 1 leads to a re-examination of th…
The Experimental Removal of Preservative from Radiocarbon Samples
A bone sample treated with nitrated preservative, like that in common use by archeologists, was chemicallywashed prior to submission, with a control sample, for radiocarbon assay. An apparently correct date was obtained for the “clean” specimen, more than 4,000 years older than the control sample coated with preservative
A Comparison of Whole and Fragmentary Paleo-Indian Points From Blackwater Draw
An analysis of differential breakage in a sample of Clovis, Agate Bas in and Folsom points suggests that the Clovis form is the most resistant to breakage and the fluted Folsom type the most fragile
Plain Facts
The Simonsen Site: Report For the Summer Of 1959
Isolated surface finds of probable Archaic and Paleo-Indian sites have been made in western Iowa for the past decade. Recently 3 sites have been found in this area, along tributaries of the
Central New Mexico Paleo-Indian Cultures
In the last decade the middle Rio Grande area of New Mexico has produced considerable cultural evidence which indicates the presence here of the paleo-Indian and related cultures. Finds of the classic hunting varieties are rare in the Rio Grande valley itself, although a scattering of Sandia, Clovis Fluted, and Folsom points has appeared. Far more common are sites of Cochiselike character, usually evidenced by deeply buried fire hearths, milling …
Central New Mexico Paleo-Indian Cultures
In the last decade the middle Rio Grande area of New Mexico has produced considerable cultural evidence which indicates the presence here of the paleo-Indian and related cultures. Finds of the classic hunting varieties are rare in the Rio Grande valley itself, although a scattering of Sandia, Clovis Fluted, and Folsom points has appeared. Far more common are sites of Cochiselike character, usually evidenced by deeply buried fire hearths, milling …
"Some Questions on Pei's "Giant Ape
Plain Facts
The Simonsen Site: Report For the Summer Of 1959
Isolated surface finds of probable Archaic and Paleo-Indian sites have been made in western Iowa for the past decade. Recently 3 sites have been found in this area, along tributaries of the
A Paleo-Indian Bison-Kill in Northwestern Iowa
The lowest levels of the Simonsen site produced projectile points, scrapers, and knives in association with Bison occidentalis. The level is dated by radiocarbon at 6471 B.C. ± 520 years. The triangular, side-notched, and concave-based Simonsen point resembles points from the Turin and Hill sites in Iowa and the Logan Creek site in Nebraska. The close resemblances between the collections from the Simonsen site and the Logan Creek site, which is a…
Analysis of Maize from the Four Bear Site and Two Other Arikara Locations in South Dakota
A Survey Of Paleo-Indian Sites Along the Middle Rio Grande Drainage
Sandia Cave is so important to the Paleo-Indian picture that it dominates the “classic” hunting site complex in the middle Rio Grande. As a result there is a tendency to minimize the considerable variety of other “classic” hunting points that have been found in the region, expecially in the Estancia Valley where such pluvial lakes as Lake Estancia and the Galisteo Basin once existed.In addition 3 sites in the Rio Grande valley exhibit a different…
Plains Facts
During the summer of 1960, 8 burial or storage pits were uncovered at the Leary site 25RH1, Richardson County, Nebraska by a bulldozer of the county highway department. A rush archaeological salvage excavation was conducted, Remains of at least 3 individuals were recovered, Pottery resembles that excavated from the site in 1935 by the Nebraska State Historical Society and is classified as Oneota, A wine bottle of the type manufactured by the Will…
A New Point Type from Hell Gap Valley, Eastern Wyoming
The Hell Gap point, excavated from a cultural level dated by radiocarbon at 8890 B.C. (10,850±550 B.P.), is described by H. M. Wormington. It represents the oldest known cultural level at Hell Gap, an extensive multi-component quarry site occupied by paleo-Indian groups over a considerable period of time
A World View of the Problems of Salvage Archaeology
The Skulls from Torrington, Wyoming: A Re-evaluation
The Torrington skeletal material owes its suspected antiquity to its osteologic similarity to Minnesota Man. A recent study of the Torrington remains, based on laboratory analysis and grave artifacts, indicates that these burials are of late prehistoric age. These results reveal the danger of using morphological comparison, without supporting evidence, to establish chronological relationships
Sandia Points at Clovis Type Site
The Wapanucket No. 8 Site: A Clovis-Archaic Site in Massachusetts
This site, which is on a low bluff overlooking Lake Assawompsett in southeastern Massachusetts, has yielded both fluted and Archaic projectile points, as well as other artifacts. The stratigraphy is complex, and a mixture of Paleo-Indian and Archaic artifacts is indicated. Two charcoal samples have been radiocarbon-dated at 1948 B.C. ± 100 years and 2758 ± 140 years B.C. These dates agree with the age of similar Archaic sites in the area
The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
Except for an introductory discussion of methodology, this paper is an effort at a narrative account of the evolution of our ancestors from proto-hominoid times to the earliest fully human stage
The Fate of the "Classic" Neanderthals: A Consideration of Hominid Catastrophism [and Comments and Reply]
The Current View That the "Classic" Neanderthals Were an aberrant, specialized, or otherwise peculiar side branch which eventually became extinct without descendants has its origins in anti-evolutionary interpretations placed upon the available hominid fossils by the french palaeontologist marcellin boule in the early part of the current century. The theoretical bases of boule's thinking stem from the early nineteenth century position of George C…
Horned Owl Cave, Wyoming
Horned Owl Cave in the northern Laramie Mountains of Wyoming has provided a wide array of normally perishable artifacts in association with pictographs. Material objects recovered from the cave include fragments of atlatls, darts, shaft feathers, arrowshafts, blunt arrows, bark, weaving, bone tools, pottery, and lithic objects. The disturbed condition of the fill of the cave prevented a controlled stratigraphy, but typologically the material fall…
The Sister’s Hill Site: A Hell Gap Site In North-Central Wyoming
The cultural horizon at the Sister’s Hill Site has produced typical Hell Gap points and a small group of associated artifacts. The radiocarbon date of 9650 ± 250 B. C. is in agreement with late Agate Basin or early post Agate Basin sites in the High Plains. On the basis of the current data, Hell Gap points appear to have developed from Agate Basin styles and seem to be developmental to Alberta, Scottsbluff and Eden types
A Comparison of Whole and Fragmentary Paleo-Indian Points From Blackwater Draw
An analysis of differential breakage in a sample of Clovis, Agate Bas in and Folsom points suggests that the Clovis form is the most resistant to breakage and the fluted Folsom type the most fragile
A Progress Report on a Pre-Ceramic Site at Rattlesnake Draw Eastern New Mexico
The Rattlesnake Draw site has produced both Paleo-Indian and Archaic artifacts in a concentrated area centering about a presently dry lake basin. In addition to the artifacts discovered, the investigators have found evidence of the construction of artificial wells during the archaic period. These wells are similar to those earlier discovered at Blackwater Draw, Locality One
Prehistoric Springs and Geochronology of the Clovis Site, New Mexico
Geologic investigation and radiocarbon dating of a newly exposed stratigraphic section at the famous Early Man site of Blackwater No. 1 (Clovis) in eastern New Mexico show the Brown Sand Wedge to be in part a contemporaneous facies of the Diatomaceous Earth (10,000 to 11,000 years old) and in part older (11,000 to 11,500 years old). The Gray Sand is probably more than 12,000 years old. Artifacts contained therein are concentrated in the upper 6 i…
On Recent Misuse of Nomenclature in Hominoidea
An Osteologic Study of Twenty-Nine Human Skulls from the Guajira Peninsula Region of Colombia-Venezuela
Craniometric data is presented for two series of skulls.In the year 193 5 a joint anthropological survey undertaken by Columbia University and the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania uncovered 29 human skulls on the Guajira Peninsula of Colombia-Venezuela (Fig. 1) during research sponsored by the Latin-American Institute. The members of the expedition included: Dr. Vincenzo Petrullo, field director, and Mr. Lewis Korn, archeologis…
The Experimental Removal of Preservative from Radiocarbon Samples
A bone sample treated with nitrated preservative, like that in common use by archeologists, was chemicallywashed prior to submission, with a control sample, for radiocarbon assay. An apparently correct date was obtained for the “clean” specimen, more than 4,000 years older than the control sample coated with preservative
The Cohonina Culture of Mount Floyd, Arizona
Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Remains from Easter Island
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