Michael B Collins
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 95107 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael B Collins |
| PRENOMES | Michael B |
| SOBRENOME | Collins |
| ASSINATURA | COLLINS M B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8511-1302 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 111 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
In This Great Future
In this century, floods, hurricanes, and natural disasters seem to have increased exponentially in the Caribbean and elsewhere. But have they really? Might it be that as the world engages with what is referred to as development, there is no concomitant focus on the lessons of history and the infrastructural needs to deal with the negative effects of this development? This paper considers aspects of the Caribbean experience, particularly from the …
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Folsom Technology and Lifeways
OSL ages of the Clovis, Late Paleoindian, and Archaic components at Area 15 of the Gault Site, Central Texas, U.S.A
Early Art in North America
Engraved and carved bone and stone artifacts capture our imaginations and are known worldwide from archaeological contexts, but they are seemingly rare and oftentimes difficult to recognize. While preservation issues play a role in the limited recovery of early art objects, research on incised stones and bone from the Gault site in Texas demonstrates that an expectation to find such artifacts plays a key role in their identification and recovery.…
Controlled Overshot Flaking
A recent article by Eren et al. (2013) is the latest criticism of the hypothesis that some Late Pleistocene Solutrean groups from western Iberia came to the New World and that lasting vestiges of t
Patterns and Process
Engraved stones have been a comparatively minor part of the reported prehistoric record of the Americas (figure). A chance discovery in 1990 of four engraved stones in an early context at the Gault Site in Central Texas (USA) led to increased interest in these objects, particularly those greater than 12 000 calendar years old. Continued investigations at Gault have documented more than 100 stones from this one site and determined affiliations ran…
Motifs et procédés
Texas central, tats-Unis)
The Buttermilk Creek Complex and the Origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
A large artifact assemblage dating to 15,000 years ago lies beneath a Clovis assemblage in central Texas.
Geochemical and radiochronological evidence of North Sea storm surges in salt marsh cores from The Wash embayment (UK)
The accumulation history of intertidal silty salt marsh sediments, from the northern shore of The Wash embayment (eastern UK), has been investigated along two cores, using a multiproxy approach involving visual logging, grain size measurements, as well as determination of particulate elements concentrations and 137 Cs, 210 Pb activities. The cores were collected in the high marsh area; one core was collected on the marsh platform, whilst the othe…
Monte Verde
The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the pres…
The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America
The transition from Palaeoindian to Archaic societies in North America is often viewed as a linear progression over a brief but time-transgressive period. New evidence from the Wilson-Leonard site in Texas suggests social experimentation by Palaeoindians over a 2500-year period eventually resulted in Archaic societies. The process was neither short nor linear, and the evidence shows that different but contemporaneous lifeways existed in a variety…
Words Without the Music
In his review of Clovis Blade Technology, Patterson commits precisely the errors whose avoidance was stressed in the book
Clovis Blade Technology
News and Short Contributions
Comprehensive Lithic Studies
About Lithics, Technologies and Other Topics
Identification of Central Texas Edwards Chert at the Folsom and Lindenmeier Sites
Study of artifacts from the Folsom and Lindenmeier sites in the Denver Museum collection has documented the occurrence of Edwards chert from central Texas in both assemblages. The specimens were Identified wzth the azd of ultraviolet light, which produces a distinctive fluorescent color range from most Edwards chert samples. The presence of Flattop chalcedony in the Folsom assemblage is also documented. The implications of long distance occurrenc…
Monte Verde, Chile
A recent review by Lynch of late Pleistocene sites in South America is impaired by numerous errors and misrepresentations. Although Lynch omits several important sites and often selectively uses data to support his own position, this comment addresses his review of the Monte Verde site in Chile. Although Lynch has not visited Monte Verde and has inspected few artifacts from the site, he questions the Pleistocene association of artifacts and the '…
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains
Prehistoric water wells were recently discovered at the Mustang Springs site (41 MT 2), along Mustang Draw on the southern Llano Estacado in west Texas. Associated radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates indicate these features were dug approximately 5000 b.p. (radiocarbon years). The dates help bracket the age of well-digging on the southern High Plains, which is known from only two other sites: Blackwater Locality No.1 and Rattlesnake Draw, bo…
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
Industrialized Embayments and Their Environmental Problems
The Use of Petroleum by Late Archaic and Early Woodland Peoples in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Asphalt was used as a mastic and oil shale rocks were used as fuel at two prehistoric sites in SW Jefferson County, Kentucky. These findings have implications for prehistoric cultural ecology, lithic use-wear studies, archaeological data-recovery methods, and cultural resources management
Heat Treating of Chert
The practice of heating chert to facilitate its flaking has been documented for primitive cultures widely distributed in time and space. The basic procedure for interpreting evidence of prehistoric heat treating is analogy with ethnographic and experimental findings. When this procedure is properly structured in its logic and employs suitable measures of physical property change, sound inferences are possible. In Kentucky, evidence for heat treat…
The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America
The transition from Palaeoindian to Archaic societies in North America is often viewed as a linear progression over a brief but time-transgressive period. New evidence from the Wilson-Leonard site in Texas suggests social experimentation by Palaeoindians over a 2500-year period eventually resulted in Archaic societies. The process was neither short nor linear, and the evidence shows that different but contemporaneous lifeways existed in a variety…
Heat Treating of Chert
The practice of heating chert to facilitate its flaking has been documented for primitive cultures widely distributed in time and space. The basic procedure for interpreting evidence of prehistoric heat treating is analogy with ethnographic and experimental findings. When this procedure is properly structured in its logic and employs suitable measures of physical property change, sound inferences are possible. In Kentucky, evidence for heat treat…
Early Art in North America
Engraved and carved bone and stone artifacts capture our imaginations and are known worldwide from archaeological contexts, but they are seemingly rare and oftentimes difficult to recognize. While preservation issues play a role in the limited recovery of early art objects, research on incised stones and bone from the Gault site in Texas demonstrates that an expectation to find such artifacts plays a key role in their identification and recovery.…
Identification of Central Texas Edwards Chert at the Folsom and Lindenmeier Sites
Study of artifacts from the Folsom and Lindenmeier sites in the Denver Museum collection has documented the occurrence of Edwards chert from central Texas in both assemblages. The specimens were Identified wzth the azd of ultraviolet light, which produces a distinctive fluorescent color range from most Edwards chert samples. The presence of Flattop chalcedony in the Folsom assemblage is also documented. The implications of long distance occurrenc…
Controlled Overshot Flaking
A recent article by Eren et al. (2013) is the latest criticism of the hypothesis that some Late Pleistocene Solutrean groups from western Iberia came to the New World and that lasting vestiges of t
Observations on the thermal treatment of chert in the Solutrean of Laugerie Haute, France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Monte Verde, Chile
A recent review by Lynch of late Pleistocene sites in South America is impaired by numerous errors and misrepresentations. Although Lynch omits several important sites and often selectively uses data to support his own position, this comment addresses his review of the Monte Verde site in Chile. Although Lynch has not visited Monte Verde and has inspected few artifacts from the site, he questions the Pleistocene association of artifacts and the '…
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains
Prehistoric water wells were recently discovered at the Mustang Springs site (41 MT 2), along Mustang Draw on the southern Llano Estacado in west Texas. Associated radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates indicate these features were dug approximately 5000 b.p. (radiocarbon years). The dates help bracket the age of well-digging on the southern High Plains, which is known from only two other sites: Blackwater Locality No.1 and Rattlesnake Draw, bo…
Comprehensive Lithic Studies
The Use of Petroleum by Late Archaic and Early Woodland Peoples in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Asphalt was used as a mastic and oil shale rocks were used as fuel at two prehistoric sites in SW Jefferson County, Kentucky. These findings have implications for prehistoric cultural ecology, lithic use-wear studies, archaeological data-recovery methods, and cultural resources management
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
Observations on the thermal treatment of chert in the Solutrean of Laugerie Haute, France
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Heat Treating of Chert
The practice of heating chert to facilitate its flaking has been documented for primitive cultures widely distributed in time and space. The basic procedure for interpreting evidence of prehistoric heat treating is analogy with ethnographic and experimental findings. When this procedure is properly structured in its logic and employs suitable measures of physical property change, sound inferences are possible. In Kentucky, evidence for heat treat…
The Use of Petroleum by Late Archaic and Early Woodland Peoples in Jefferson County, Kentucky
Asphalt was used as a mastic and oil shale rocks were used as fuel at two prehistoric sites in SW Jefferson County, Kentucky. These findings have implications for prehistoric cultural ecology, lithic use-wear studies, archaeological data-recovery methods, and cultural resources management
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
Industrialized Embayments and Their Environmental Problems
Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains
Prehistoric water wells were recently discovered at the Mustang Springs site (41 MT 2), along Mustang Draw on the southern Llano Estacado in west Texas. Associated radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates indicate these features were dug approximately 5000 b.p. (radiocarbon years). The dates help bracket the age of well-digging on the southern High Plains, which is known from only two other sites: Blackwater Locality No.1 and Rattlesnake Draw, bo…
A Faunal Record From West Central Texas and its Bearing on Late Holocene Bison Population Changes in the Southern Plains
A faunal record from archaeological site 4JTG91, Tom Green County, Texas, contains good evidence for late Holocen bison population changes in the west central portion of the state. The prehistoric faunal remains occur in stratified overbank flood deposits along the South Concho River and date from ca 600 B. C. to A.D. 1650-1700. Bison bone occurs in all deposits except those dating approximately A.D. 900-1300
Identification of Central Texas Edwards Chert at the Folsom and Lindenmeier Sites
Study of artifacts from the Folsom and Lindenmeier sites in the Denver Museum collection has documented the occurrence of Edwards chert from central Texas in both assemblages. The specimens were Identified wzth the azd of ultraviolet light, which produces a distinctive fluorescent color range from most Edwards chert samples. The presence of Flattop chalcedony in the Folsom assemblage is also documented. The implications of long distance occurrenc…
Monte Verde, Chile
A recent review by Lynch of late Pleistocene sites in South America is impaired by numerous errors and misrepresentations. Although Lynch omits several important sites and often selectively uses data to support his own position, this comment addresses his review of the Monte Verde site in Chile. Although Lynch has not visited Monte Verde and has inspected few artifacts from the site, he questions the Pleistocene association of artifacts and the '…
Comprehensive Lithic Studies
About Lithics, Technologies and Other Topics
News and Short Contributions
Words Without the Music
In his review of Clovis Blade Technology, Patterson commits precisely the errors whose avoidance was stressed in the book
Clovis Blade Technology
The Palaeoindian-Archaic transition in North America
The transition from Palaeoindian to Archaic societies in North America is often viewed as a linear progression over a brief but time-transgressive period. New evidence from the Wilson-Leonard site in Texas suggests social experimentation by Palaeoindians over a 2500-year period eventually resulted in Archaic societies. The process was neither short nor linear, and the evidence shows that different but contemporaneous lifeways existed in a variety…
Monte Verde
The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the pres…
Geochemical and radiochronological evidence of North Sea storm surges in salt marsh cores from The Wash embayment (UK)
The accumulation history of intertidal silty salt marsh sediments, from the northern shore of The Wash embayment (eastern UK), has been investigated along two cores, using a multiproxy approach involving visual logging, grain size measurements, as well as determination of particulate elements concentrations and 137 Cs, 210 Pb activities. The cores were collected in the high marsh area; one core was collected on the marsh platform, whilst the othe…
The Buttermilk Creek Complex and the Origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, Texas
A large artifact assemblage dating to 15,000 years ago lies beneath a Clovis assemblage in central Texas.
Patterns and Process
Engraved stones have been a comparatively minor part of the reported prehistoric record of the Americas (figure). A chance discovery in 1990 of four engraved stones in an early context at the Gault Site in Central Texas (USA) led to increased interest in these objects, particularly those greater than 12 000 calendar years old. Continued investigations at Gault have documented more than 100 stones from this one site and determined affiliations ran…
Motifs et procédés
Texas central, tats-Unis)
Controlled Overshot Flaking
A recent article by Eren et al. (2013) is the latest criticism of the hypothesis that some Late Pleistocene Solutrean groups from western Iberia came to the New World and that lasting vestiges of t
Early Art in North America
Engraved and carved bone and stone artifacts capture our imaginations and are known worldwide from archaeological contexts, but they are seemingly rare and oftentimes difficult to recognize. While preservation issues play a role in the limited recovery of early art objects, research on incised stones and bone from the Gault site in Texas demonstrates that an expectation to find such artifacts plays a key role in their identification and recovery.…
OSL ages of the Clovis, Late Paleoindian, and Archaic components at Area 15 of the Gault Site, Central Texas, U.S.A
Folsom Technology and Lifeways
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
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