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"""Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains"" synthesizes what was a disparate body of data on the prehistory of the Northwestern Plains and presents it in rational and understandable terms. It examines the prehistoric cultural chronology and the sources of the data for the Northwestern High Plains. It presents prehistoric hunting and gathering subsistence strategies using an interdisciplinary approach that includes data from geology, soils, faunal analysis, pollen, and phytolith studies."

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"Frison has gathered together in this volume a well-organized, clearly written, and beautifully illustrated set of insights into the subsistence systems of the aboriginal inhabitants. This constitutes a solid, down-to-earth attempt at an ethnography of the many human groups who successfully lived in this region from the Clovis mammoth hunters until the final heyday of the Plains buffalo...Any Plains archaeologist must have this book, and any professional person interested in the history of man the hunter will find it fascinating reading. --SCIENCE ""Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, by famed Plains archaeologist George Frison, was a fundamental, classic resource for North American prehistoric Archaeology. The 1991 second edition included chapters on lithic technology, lithic resources, rock art, and human osteology and expanded coverage of Paleo-Indian life. This new third edition covers almost 20 additional years of developments in the field. Kornfeld and Larson were added as coauthors, and the original additional authors from the second edition, should definitely update to the third. Highly recommended. Collections in anthropology, archaeology, Native American/indigenous studies, environmental history, and regional collections on the Plains and Rockies. Essential. North American archaeology collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above."" -L.M. Foster, CHOICE"

<p> Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains, by famed Plains archaeologist George Frison, was a fundamental, , classic resource for North American prehistoric Archaeology. The 1991 second edition included chapters on lithic technology, lithic resources, rock art, and human osteology and expanded coverage of Paleo-Indian life. This new third edition covers almost 20 additional years of developments in the field. Kornfeld and Larson were added as coauthors, and the original additional authors from the second edition, should definitely update to the third. Highly recommended. Collections in anthropology, archaeology, Native American/indigenous studies, environmental history, and regional collections on the Plains and Rockies. Essential. North American archaeology collections. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -L.M. Foster, CHOICE

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George C. Frison is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wyoming and past-president of the Society for American Archaeology. He served as first state archaeologist of the state of Wyoming. Unquestionably the best known researcher on the prehistory of the high plains, he has been responsible for significant excavations of the Glenrock, Casper, Agate Basin, Carter-McGee and Mill Iron sites, and many others. Frison is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a prolific author.

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