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Archaeologically recovered ammonites: Evidence for long-term continuity in Nitsitapii ritual
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Fossilized ammonites have been repeatedly excavated from cultural contexts, often in association with the Old Women s Phase archaeological culture. Archaeologists usually consider the Old Women 5 Phase to represent ancestral Nitsitapii (Blackfoot). The Nitsitapii word for fossilized ammonites is 'Iniskim' or Buffalo Stones. Nitsitapii oral tradition records an ancient origin for the use of Iniskim. Originally, Iniskim were used as part of a pre-hunt ritual that produced the power to insure a ...
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Archaeologically recovered ammonites: Evidence for long-term continuity in Nitsitapii ritual
Plains Anthropologist
; ... sliding down to its base. Reeves (1993:221) summarized these correlations between oral history and geography as follows: Geological maps indicate that the upstream outcrop of Bearspaw Shale on the Bow River ends below a major elbow of the Bow ... . The Bow River bends ...
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(book reviews)
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
; KNECHT, HEIDI (ed (Interdisc. Contr. Archaeol. Ser xviii, 408 pp., illus., tables, bibliogr. New York, London: Plenum Press, 1997. $59.50 Stone age archaeology often emphasizes projectile points and its literature is rich both in detailed analyses of these artefacts and in largely untested
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Late Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains: Early Holocene Projectile Points and Land Use in the High Country
Plains Anthropologist
; Late Paleoindian Occupation of the Southern Rocky Mountains: Early Holocene Projectile Points and Land Use in the High Country. By BONNIE L. PITBLADO. University Press of Colorado, Boulder, 2003. xviii + 292 pp., 44 figures, 62 tables, 2 appendices, references cited, index. $45.00 (Cloth, ISBN
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Ammonite jaw apparatuses from the Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Dorset and their taphonomic relevance
Journal of the Geological Society
; ... is likely to have been swept offshore during storm events; the nearest land would have been over Cornubia (Cope et al. 1992, maps Jl and J2a). Transport resulting from storm events may be the explanation of some of the dense accumulations of ammonites in ...
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Peak to peak in Paleoindian time: Occupation of Southwest Colorado
Plains Anthropologist
; ABSTRACT One-hundred and sixty-six Paleoindian projectile points from surface contexts in southwest Colorado are documented, analyzed, and evaluated in terms of existing models of Paleoindian adaptation to the Rocky Mountain environment. The southwestern Colorado projectile points-morphologically
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Historic metal projectile points and arrows, Alberta, Canada: A theory for Aboriginal arrow design on the Great Plains
Plains Anthropologist
; ABSTRACT This study considers whether the design and performance of the Aboriginal arrow on the Great Plains changed after the arrival of Europeans. A review of bow and arrow mechanics determined that individual arrow components are closely related to each other and to specific arrow performance.
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Tiny arrowheads: Toys in the toolkit
Plains Anthropologist
; ABSTRACT A review of Plains ethnographies indicates that children were invariably supplied with small-scale bows and arrows to practice archery skills at an early age. If small arrowheads tipped these toys, toy arrowheads should appear in the archaeological record. An examination of Late
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Late side-notched projectile points in the northern Plains
Plains Anthropologist
; ABSTRACT The most commonly used classificatory scheme for Late Side-notched projectile points (LSPP) in the northern Plains divides specimens for the entire region into two types: the Prairie Side-notched (ca. 1250-650 B.P) and the Plains Side-notched (ca. 650 B.P to the Historic period). An
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Ammonites wrong about 9/11 blame
The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
; The Ammonites are now in our daily news. They first became a country by a son from the union of the youngest son and daughter of Lot, B.C. 1897. Their territory is on ...
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Archeological Investigations at the Loma Sandia Site (41LK28): A Prehistoric Cemetery and Campsite in Live Oak County, Texas, Volumes 1 and 2
Plains Anthropologist
; Archeological Investigations at the Loma Sandia Site (41LK28): A Prehistoric Cemetery and Campsite in Live Oak County, Texas, Volumes 1 and 2. By ANNA JEAN TAYLOR and CHERYL LYNN HIGHLEY. Studies in Archeology 20, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin 1995.
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