The Casper Site
A Hell Gap Bison Kill on the High Plains (revised edition)
Published on 1. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
296 pages
978-0-9752738-4-5 (ISBN)
Description
George Frison's report on the 10,000-year-old Casper Site helped establish how large animal communal kill sites should be excavated, analyzed, and reported. With his background in ranching and hunting, Frison knows more about large animals than any other archaeologist. In The Casper Site Frison began to share that knowledge as well as the techniques of bone bed excavation; that, and the book's interdisciplinary approach, make it a landmark in paleoindian archaeology and faunal analysis.
As Marcel Kornfeld writes in his new introduction, 'One of Frison's outstanding contributions to Great Plains prehistory has been in the arena of bison studies and bone beds in particular, and Casper is one of its finest examples.'
The first edition of this book was published by Academic Press in 1975, and has been out of print for some years.
As Marcel Kornfeld writes in his new introduction, 'One of Frison's outstanding contributions to Great Plains prehistory has been in the arena of bison studies and bone beds in particular, and Casper is one of its finest examples.'
The first edition of this book was published by Academic Press in 1975, and has been out of print for some years.
Reviews / Votes
'The Casper site is one in a long tradition of bison procurement site studies by George Frison. This site typifies the use of the parabolic sand dune for bison trapping. The suite of analyses employed set the standard for kill site archaeology on the Plains and around the globe.' (Leland C. Bement, Oklahoma Archeological Survey)'With astonishing fidelity the events of an ancient bison kill are uncovered from the rolling sands of Wyoming. That these remarkable events happened 10,000 years ago, and yet we see them so clearly today, is testimony to the skill of Frison and his team of researchers. A landmark publication.' (Jack W. Brink, Royal Alberta Museum)
'The brainchild of a remarkable archaeologist and a benchmark in integrative archaeological science, putting to work innovations in spatial analysis, experiments in technology and vertebrate taphonomy, hunter-gatherer ethnoarchaeology, geology, and zooarchaeology. One cannot help but sense the squeak of sand churned by desperate hooves when reading this classic study.' (Mary C. Stiner, University of Arizona)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Clinton Corners
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 181 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9752738-4-5 (9780975273845)
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E-Book
12/2013
Eliot Werner Publications
€39.49
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Persons
George C. Frison, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
Marcel Kornfeld, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
Marcel Kornfeld, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming
Content
Introduction to the Percheron Press Edition: The Casper Site and Bison Bone Bed Studies, Marcel Kornfeld
Archeology of the Casper Site, George C. Frison
Population Study of the Casper Site Bison, Charles A. Reher
The Casper Local Fauna and Its Fossil Bison, Michael Wilson
Geology of the Casper Archeological Site, John Albanese
Comments on the Lithic Technology of the Casper Site Materials, Bruce Bradley
Morphological Variation in Bison Metacarpals and Metatarsals, Jean Newman Bedord
Concluding Summary, George C. Frison
Appendix I. Volumes of Bison astragali, George Zeimens and Sandy Zeimens
Appendix II. Pollen Report on the Casper Site, Jane Beiswenger
References
Author Index
Subject Index
Archeology of the Casper Site, George C. Frison
Population Study of the Casper Site Bison, Charles A. Reher
The Casper Local Fauna and Its Fossil Bison, Michael Wilson
Geology of the Casper Archeological Site, John Albanese
Comments on the Lithic Technology of the Casper Site Materials, Bruce Bradley
Morphological Variation in Bison Metacarpals and Metatarsals, Jean Newman Bedord
Concluding Summary, George C. Frison
Appendix I. Volumes of Bison astragali, George Zeimens and Sandy Zeimens
Appendix II. Pollen Report on the Casper Site, Jane Beiswenger
References
Author Index
Subject Index