Archaeological recovery of the Bowser Road mastodon, Orange County, New York / by Richard Michael Gramly, PhD ; with appendices by Lerick Allen [and twelve others] ; and a foreword by Russell Judkins, PhD
ANTHMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.
Contents:
Acknowledgments and disposition of the collection -- Foreword / Russell Judkins -- List of figures and tables within main text -- Purpose and context of this work -- A. Geographical and physical setting -- B. Regional archaeological & palaeontological endeavors -- C. How the site became known -- D. Sequence of fieldwork -- E. Anatomical inventory and state of the mastodon skeleton -- F. Associated artifacts. 1. Stone artifacts ; 2. Artifacts of tusk ivory ; 3. Artifacts of bone -- G. Geochemical study and absolute dating -- H. Comparisons to other North American archaeological sites -- I. Insights about Palaeo-American behavior and social structure -- J. Thoughts about South America -- Appendix I. The Clovis celt and its hafting / R.M. Gramly, R.A. Parker, D.C. Waldorf -- Appendix II. The Bowser Road mastodon site : signs of an early human arrival? / Guy Robinson, Abdel R. Mohamed -- Appendix III. The Bowser Road mastodon and the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis / M.A. LeCompte, A. West, A.V. Andedeji, M. Demitroff, T. Witwer, R.A. Langenburg -- Appendix IV. The season of death of the Bowser Road mastodon / Joseph J. El Adli, Daniel C. Fisher, Lang C. DeLancey, Scott G. Beld -- Appendix V. Anatomical units and identified bones of the Bowser Road mastodon / R.M. Gramly -- Appendix VI. Inventory of catalogued objects ("BR" numbers) / R.M. Gramly -- Appendix VII. Object lots at the Bowser Road Site / R.M. Gramly, D.J. Vesper -- Appendix VIII. Units of excavation at the Bowser Road Site / R.M. Gramly -- Appendix IX. Did Clovis hunters immobilize mastodons and mammoths by hamstringiing and severing the Achilles tendon? / Lerick Allen -- Indices -- Information about authors
