Description
Three years of intensive excavations at the Big Black site—named after a 19th century Awatixa Hidatsa medicine bundle owner—have revealed multiple Folsom occupational levels. In this volume, individual contributors present their analyses of nearly a thousand stone tools that were found during the study, including over two-hundred Folsom points, pre-forms, and channel flakes.
With U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service support and assistance, the excavations at the Big Black site were part of a multi-year archaeology investigation of the Lake Ilo National Wildlife Refuge in western North Dakota. These comprehensive investigations also included work at the nearby Bobtail Wolf site. Along with a companion volume reporting on the Bobtail Wolf site (published by WSU Press, 2000), The Big Black Site (32DU955C) study presents essential new information on Paleoindian adaptations.
For a companion study, see—Matthew J. Root, ed., The Archaeology of the Bobtail Wolf Site: Folsom Occupation of the Knife River Flint Quarry Area, North Dakota (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2000).
Illustrations / photographs / maps / references / 320 pages (2001)
