Taxonomy and Chronology in the Central Plains - Middle Missouri River Area

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ID9217673
AuthorsRobert L Stephenson (0000-0002-1207-1063, corresponding author)
Year1954
Volume1
Issue1
Pages15-21
Publication date1954-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlains Anthropologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2052546.1954.11908165
OpenAlexW745432689
LanguageEN
Citations received15

In April 1953 Gordon C. Baldwin, John L. Champe, Carlyle S. Smith, Wesley R. Hurt and the writer made a brief field trip to the Fort Randall and Oahe Reservoir areas in South Dakota. The discussions of cultural rela tionships of archeological materials from this and related areas which developed on that trip culminated in a spontaneous, informal gathering upon the party's return to Lincoln. The Smithsonian Institution staff in Lincoln, the staff and students of the Laboratory of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska, Marvin Kivett and Carlyle Smith all joined in the fun. The argu ments and discussions lasted on into the night and nearly all the next day. At this accidental meeting the Midwestern Taxonomic System was being used and the group attempted to maintain the internal consistency of that system throughout. After the taxonomic framework was established, a chronological arrangement of the units was developed, but the two were kept separate con sistently

Archaeology · Chronology · Consistency (knowledge bases · Field trip · Geography · Library science · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Natural History · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · History · Law

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