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The Frontier Culture Complex, a Preliminary Report on a Prehistoric Hunters' Camp in Southwestern Nebraska

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Preston Holder  and
Joyce Wike
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This report, a preliminary delineation of a new lithic complex from the Central Plains, is presented for the immediate purpose of aiding other archaeologists working in the area. Once one has left such easily recognizable markers as the Folsom complex, the details of the archaic horizons of the Great Plains are confused until we reach such lithic complexes as those found at Signal Butte (Strong, 1935), Ash Hollow Cave (Champe, 1946), and more recently, Nebo Hill (Shippee, 1948). The primary value of defining the Frontier Culture complex at this time is that it affords a “pure” and relatively complete lithic complex by means of which comparative typological work in the Plains Archaic can be furthered.

Type
Archaeological Researches in the Missouri Basin by the Smithsonian River Basin Surveys and Cooperating Agencies
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 14 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1949 , pp. 260 - 266
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1949

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1 The Allen site is designated by the code name Ft-50 (Frontier County, Site SO) in accordance with University of Nebraska State Museum practice. The site is referred to as 25FT50 in the Smithsonian Institution code (Wedel, 1948). The site is on land which was homesteaded in 1873 by William H. Allen and is now owned by Herbert C. Allen.

2 W. D. Frankforter acted as co-director of the work for the Museum at the Allen site as well as at the other projects in the Medicine Creek and Harlan County reservoir areas. Loren Toohey was paleontologist at the site and was responsible for personnel problems. H. E. Robinson and C. L. Mutch of the Bureau of Reclamation cooperated with the Museum field party by making earth-moving equipment and personnel available for the removal of the overburden at the site. Funds for the archaeological and paleontological work at the Allen site were furnished by the late Hector Maiben (through the University of Nebraska Foundation) and by the Chancellor and Board of Regents of the University.