From Whence they Came
The Paleontology of Southern Plains Bison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216976 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Don G Wyckoff (Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, University of Oklahoma, Nonnan, OK 73019), Walter W Dalquest (Midwestern State University) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 159 |
| Pages | 5-32 |
| Publication date | 1997-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/2052546.1997.11931835 |
| OpenAlex | W2246815562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 11 |
Long renowned for their clues to the presence and predatory abilities of North America’s earliest humans, Southern Plains sites with bison remains have provided vertebrate paleontologists with food for thought for nearly a century. Bison skulls from Texas, New Mexico, and Kansas figured prominently in early taxonomic schemes, ideas on bison evolution, and the chronology of geological deposits before radiocarbon dating. Now, in addition toinnumerable finds of isolated cranial parts, bison remains are reported for over 30 non archaeological sites from southwestern Kansas to southern Texas. A radiocarbon-dated chronology is slowly developing for these paleontological finds, and, on this basis, bisona remains appear to be nonexistent in deposits older than 50,000 yearsBP. Moreover, most localities older than 20,000 years BP yield more remains of herbivores other than bison. Although several competing models ofNorthAmerican bison evolution are currently in vogue, Southern Plains finds demonstrate that serious problems hinder full acceptance of any model. These problems include small sample sizes, poor understanding of age and sex differences within nominal species, inadequate dating of most faunal localities, and (most of all) identification errors resulting from misinterpretation of nomenclature. As a result, many identifications of bison species published in the last 20 years are suspect
Archaeology · Biology · Bison bison · Chronology · Geography · Radiocarbon dating · Ecology · Evolution and Paleontology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Late-Quaternary diminution and abundance of prehistoric bison ( Bison sp.) in eastern washington State, USA
Extinctions, scenarios, and assumptions
The impact of changing grasslands on Late Quaternary bison of the Southern Plains
Sexing Bison Metapodials Using Principal Component Analysis
Regional Variability in Clovis, Folsom, and Cody Land Use
Caroli Linnaei…Systema naturae per regna tria naturae
Frozen Fauna of the Mammoth Steppe
Studies of Non-Marine Mollusks for the Selection of Shell Samples for Radiocarbon Dating
The Archaic Record At Lubbock Lake
Late Quaternary Bison Population Changes On The Southern Plains
Preliminary Results from the Certain Site
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2009 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |