Two Acres of Time : : Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig /

Two Acres of Time : : Unearthing the Ice Age at the Byron Dig / / Richard S. Laub.

In 1959, what appeared to be the bones of a mastodon were found in a western New York pasture. When researchers began to investigate further in the early 1980s, the site proved to hold far more. Known as the Hiscock Site, it contained an astonishingly rich trove of fossils and artifacts dating from...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
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Laub, Richard S.,
MitwirkendeR:
Owsley, Douglas W.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • In Appreciation
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • PART I Getting There
  • Chapter 1 Discovery
  • Interlude 1 The American Mastodon
  • Chapter 2 First Steps
  • Chapter 3 Brigadoon
  • PART II The Heroic Age (1983–1990)
  • Chapter 4 First Try, 1983
  • Chapter 5 Emerging Patterns
  • Chapter 6 Friday’s Footprint
  • Interlude 2 The Clovis People
  • Chapter 7 Steady Going, and First Symposium
  • Chapter 8 The Dig Matures (I)
  • Chapter 9 The Dig Matures (II)
  • Chapter 10 Calling Cards of Stone
  • PART III New Terrain (1991–2001)
  • Chapter 11 A Lucky Drought
  • Chapter 12 Tools!
  • Chapter 13 More Discoveries (I)
  • Chapter 14 More Discoveries (II)
  • Chapter 15 Of Death and Life
  • Chapter 16 Second Symposium
  • PART IV Exploding Pits (2002–2005)
  • Chapter 17 Bonanza (I)
  • Chapter 18 Bonanza (II)
  • Chapter 19 Money Worries
  • PART V Winding Down (2006–2011)
  • Chapter 20 Into the Shallows I—Disappointment
  • Chapter 21 Into the Shallows II—A Stirring of Hope
  • Chapter 22 A Bolt from the Blue
  • Chapter 23 To Where All Things Must Come
  • Chapter 24 Some Parting Thoughts
  • Appendix A: Human Teeth and a Rib from the Hiscock Site
  • Appendix B: Hiscock Radiocarbon Dates, Corrected for Isotopic Fractionation
  • Appendix C: Uncorrected Radiocarbon Dates for Hiscock Samples Cited in Appendix A
  • Appendix D: Bibliography of Scientific Publications About the Hiscock Site
  • Notes
  • Specimen Number Index
  • Index

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