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  • Flaked Stone Artifacts from the East Wenatchee Clovis Cache

    by Bruce Huckell, Bruce A. Bradley, Peter J. Mehringer Jr., J. David Kilby ...
    Series series Peopling of the Americas Publications
    In 1987, workers installing irrigation pipes in an apple orchard in East Wenatchee, Washington, discovered a cache of Clovis materials. The uncovered bifaces—larger than most previously discovered Clovis artifacts with unmatched quality and quantity—had a lasting impact on archaeology. Flaked Stone Artifacts from the East Wenatchee Clovis Cache delineates not only the history of the site, but also ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Stones, Bones, and Profiles

    Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison

    Edited by Marcel Kornfeld, Bruce Huckell ...
    Stones, Bones, and Profiles addresses key and cutting-edge research of three pillars of hunter-gatherer archaeology. Stones and bones—flaked stone tools and the bones of the prey animals—are the objects most commonly recovered from hunter-gatherer archaeological sites, and profiles represent the geologic context of the archeological record. Together they constitute the foundations of much of early ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Frozen in Time

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    An Exploration into How Life Organizes and Supports Itself

    by John Theberge, Mary Theberge ...
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