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Radiocarbon-Dated Archaeological Remains on the Northern and Central Great Plains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Robert W. Neuman
Robert W. Neuman*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, Lincoln, Nebraska
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Abstract

This paper consolidates and summarizes the mass of radiocarbon determinations that has accumulated in various books, journals, newsletters, and manuscripts between 1951 and the spring of 1965. The dates are derived from Paleo-Indian, Archaic, Early Ceramic, and Late Prehistoric occupations in the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan and the Plains areas of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa. Included are 195 radiocarbon dates attesting to the presence of man on the Plains for the last 12,000 years.

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American Antiquity , Volume 32 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 471 - 486
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1967

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