| Autor: |
LANDT, MATTHEW J., PROUTY, MICHAEL J. |
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Southwestern Lore; Summer2017, Vol. 83 Issue 2, p1-20, 20p, 4 Charts |
| Abstrakt: |
The Spring Creek Valley, a tributary of the Yampa River in northwestern Colorado, was intensively occupied from 6360 to 4572 cal B.P. Excavations at site 5MF3006 have identified four individual caches of ground stone tools related to repeated use of the area. The ground stone caches consist of two clusters of manos, a cluster of metates, and a grouping of manos with a metate. While the presence of ground stone caches typically indicates long-term logistical planning by mobile collectors, they are rarely reported in the literature. This article focuses on the nature of the caches and how they were included in the subsistence strategy of local foragers. While evidence of tool caching is limited throughout northwestern Colorado, the presence of numerous ground stone caches in the Spring Creek Valley suggests that the inhabitants of the region expected to revisit the same locations multiple times as part of a central-place subsistence strategy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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