Category: History - American

Excavations at the LoDaisKa Site in the Denver, Colorado area

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1. Part 1

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2. Part 2

The small intermittent stream, Strain Gulch, flows in front of the shelter on a southwest-northeast axis. It has cut down its bed to a gravelly-bouldery layer corresponding to t...

3. Part 3

There are four types of knives or bifacially worked cutting implements. All are relatively thin, less than ¼ inch thick, and flaked on both sides, often with broad shallow chipp...

4. Part 4

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5. Part 5

Forty-one specimens, fragmentary and complete, were classified as awls. These were segregated into four principal types, classified on the basis of form, type of bone utilized,...

6. Part 6

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7. Part 7

Gramineae _Zea Mays_—fragments from a small diameter, 16-rowed cob. Must have borne small kernels, possibly a popcorn. S/I11/53-57 —one kernel of a dent corn—S/0910/22-26. Not h...

8. Part 8

The remainder of the grass grains seem to fall within the limits of the genus _Tripsacum_ (size extremes 33.6ₘ to 64ₘ, and ratio extremes 1:3.0 to 1:4.8), although the pore-axis...

9. Part 9

The men confined their technological interests to weapons for hunting and war. Bows were commonly four feet long and were made of “bois d’arc” (_Maciura canadensis_), hickory, “...

10. Part 10

[9] American Journal of Science, Vol. 257, No. 1, Jan. ’59, p. 21 “Lamont Natural Radiocarbon Measurements V.” Dates are now available for Signal Butte, Ia: L 385 B, 4550±220 ye...

11. Part 11

At LoDaisKa there are few such distinctive elements that transgress cultural periods other than rather common functional tools such as scrapers, but these few may be worth notin...

12. Part 12

WORMINGTON, H. M. 1955 A Reappraisal of the Fremont Culture. Proceedings, No. 1, Denver Museum of Natural History. Denver. 1957 Ancient Man in North America. Fourth Revised Edit...