Seasonality of the Scottsbluff and Lipscomb Bison Bonebeds

Implications for Modeling Paleoindian Subsistence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2575480
AutoresLawrence C Todd (0000-0003-2714-7873, Pueblo of Zuni), Jack L Hofman (Oklahoma Biological Survey), C Bertrand Schultz (0000-0003-3388-8950, University of Nebraska–Lincoln)
Ano1990
Volume55
Fascículo4
Páginas813-827
Data de publicação1990-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/281252
OpenAlexW2015894092
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas29
Referências citadas36

The Scottsbluff and Lipscomb bison bonebeds initially were excavated in the 1930s. Although only brief, preliminary reports have been published on the two sites, they since have been cited widely in discussions of Paleoindian hunting practices on the western Plains. The Scottsbluff and Lipscomb sites both represent mass deaths associated with Cody Complex and Folsom artifacts respectively. Analysis of eruption and wear of the lower dentitions indicates that the Scottsbluff bison died during late spring to summer, and those at Lipscomb died only slightly later in the year (late summer to early fall). Thus, although often cited in the 'yet-another-bison-bonebed' category, these two sites exhibit a pattern of seasonal mortality that is different from the generally reported tendency for Paleoindian kills to have taken place in the late fall or winter

Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Seasonality · Spring (device · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology