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Paleo-Indian Procurement of Camelops on the Northwestern Plains

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

George C. Frison ,
Danny N. Walker ,
S. David Webb  and
George M. Zeimens
George C. Frison
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 USA
Danny N. Walker
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 USA
S. David Webb
Affiliation:
Florida State Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611 USA
George M. Zeimens
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071 USA
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Abstract

Camelops have been recorded in a number of Paleo-Indian sites that lack evidence of past procurement methods. Recently, two occurrences of Camelops remains have been recorded in Paleo-Indian animal kills in Wyoming. One kill situation was in a Hell Gap cultural context that produced remains of a single Camelops taken along with about 100 bison in a parabolic sand dune trap. The other Camelops was in a Clovis cultural context and deals with a single animal believed to have been taken in an arroyo trap that was used to take bison at several Paleo-Indian time periods. Identification of geomorphic features involved in these kill sites offers a basis for beginning to interpret Paleo-Indian camel procurement methods.

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Quaternary Research , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , November 1978 , pp. 385 - 400
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University of Washington

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