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An Outdated Video for an Outdated Paper

3/27/2014

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The year 2006 was a long time ago.  That was my first year at Michigan, and I remember being very happy when this paper of mine came out in Archaeology of Eastern North America.  I had a quick look back at the paper this morning as I was writing the description.  The main thing I was trying to do in the paper was formulate a chronological "model" that would accommodate the profusion of Middle/Late Paleoindian points that occur in northeastern Indiana.  I came up with a scenario that was consistent with the data I had in front of me and seemed to make sense based on information from other regions.  It was probably the most sophisticated piece of work I had done at that point.

Back in the day, I made a short animation (available here) to help explain the model in presentations.  It is pretty simple, but it effectively communicates the idea that the occurrence of multiple Late Paleoindian point types in northern Indiana is not solely the result of a unilineal sequence of technological change. I was hoping to add a soundtrack to the animation before I put in on YouTube, but technological evolution let me down: the software I used to edit the video no longer opens the video it created.  So please hum a Donny and Marie song while you watch it.  I suggest this one. Or maybe this one.

After collecting and analyzing more data during my dissertation work, I now think that some of things in this paper are wrong (see the description).  The paper served its intended purpose, however: a model that can be used to derive further expectations is a useful one.  The process of creating an explanation like the one in this paper forces you to try to construct scenarios that are consistent with all the information you have.  And it encourages you to think about how additional information could be used to discriminate between scenarios.  And that is useful. 


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Bill Wagner
2/15/2016 06:20:59 pm

"And how do we explain the distribution of Agate Basin points east of the Mississippi River?"

A simple and most intuitively obvious explanation was that of the late Don Dragoo of Carnegie Institute (remembered today for his Wells Creek Crater account and "Mounds for the Dead"). He referred to the era of Folsom and its successors as the Aquaplano. During the course of which both bison and their hunters migrated to the east and northeast, following the grasslands as the pluvial lakes and the plains in general dried out.

FWIW

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Andy White
2/16/2016 07:19:21 am

Wow - you're really digging down into the blog.

I've always thought the "expansion of grasslands and bison habitat" explanation was a good default one, but I didn't know that Dragoo had proposed it. My question is, however, how/when would such a range expansion jive with the hunter-gatherer societies that were already present in the east? There's a new American Antiquity article about bovid blood residue on projectile points from South Carolina, but I haven't read it yet.

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Bill Wagner
2/16/2016 09:59:04 am

Longstanding interest in exactly your focus + retirement + opportunity to communicate with the cutting edge guy = activity :)

The lithic record in places like Ohio suggests just such a chaotic situation at that time : well-developed local traditions alongside intrusive point styles like Agate Basin that were apparently contemporary with them. Even moreso you have the analogues : some "Ohio Lanceolates" are simply eastern Midlands, not a few Hardin points are eastern Scottsbluffs, &c.

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Andy White
2/16/2016 10:02:48 am

It would be a great topic for someone to attempt to tackle in a dissertation. As with fluted points, it's possible (stress on "possible") that there are actually more Agate Basin east of the Mississippi than west of the Mississippi. As I've now seen firsthand, Hardin Barbed extends into the Atlantic Coast region also. It's fascinating, and I hope we someday have the resolution to understand what happened.

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