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The Pollen Evidence for the Environment of Early Man and Extinct Mammals at the Lehner Mammoth Site, Southeastern Arizona*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Peter J. Mehringer Jr.  and
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
Peter J. Mehringer Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
C. Vance Haynes Jr.
Affiliation:
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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Abstract

Fossil pollen is directly associated with a radiocarbon date, mammoth bones, and the same stratigraphic units in which mammoth, bison, tapir, and horse bones and Clovis artifacts were recovered at the Lehner site. The pollen evidence indicates that desert grassland occupied the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona about 9000 B.C.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , July 1965 , pp. 17 - 23
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1965

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Footnotes

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Contribution No. 95, Program in Geochronology, University of Arizona, Tucson. The pollen studies are being supported by National Science Foundation grants G-21944 and GB-1959, awarded to Paul S. Martin; Radiocarbon dating is being supported by National Science Foundation grant GP-2330, awarded to Paul E. Damon. The heavy equipment was provided through National Science Foundation grant G-25189, awarded to John F. Lance, and by the Arizona State Museum.

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