Pendejo Cave

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This account of the archaeology of a cave in southern New Mexico makes a dramatic contribution to the ongoing debate over how long human beings have lived in the Americas. The findings presented here show that human settlement may go back as far as 75,000 years before the present, whereas the long-accepted Clovis dates showed humans only about 12,000 years ago. MacNeish and his colleagues subjected the cave, its environs, and its contents to rigorous interdisciplinary investigation.

The first section of this volume comprises their reports on the changing environment of the area. The second section concentrates on the excavation of the cave's layers, ...

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Overview

This account of the archaeology of a cave in southern New Mexico makes a dramatic contribution to the ongoing debate over how long human beings have lived in the Americas. The findings presented here show that human settlement may go back as far as 75,000 years before the present, whereas the long-accepted Clovis dates showed humans only about 12,000 years ago. MacNeish and his colleagues subjected the cave, its environs, and its contents to rigorous interdisciplinary investigation.

The first section of this volume comprises their reports on the changing environment of the area. The second section concentrates on the excavation of the cave's layers, presenting the results of radiocarbon dating and describing the evidence of human occupation, including friction skin prints and human hair. The third section discusses the cultural implications of the materials recovered and suggests how the ancient peoples may have exploited the changing environment and developed different ways of life throughout the Americas before the time of Clovis man.

No serious discussion of early inhabitants in the New World can disregard the findings presented in this monumental work of scholarship.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780826324054
  • Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
  • Publication date: 4/28/2003
  • Pages: 546
  • Product dimensions: 8.74 (w) x 11.20 (h) x 1.63 (d)

Meet the Author

The late Richard S. MacNeish (1918-2001) was a distinguished archaeologist especially well known for his studies of early agriculture and the origins of corn.

Jane G. Libby assisted Dr. MacNeish in his fieldwork and writing for many years at the Andover Foundation for Archaeological Research.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword: A Tribute to R.S. MacNeish
Preface
Acknowledgments
Sect. I Paleoecology
Ch. 1 Introduction 3
Ch. 2 Regional Setting and Paleoclimate of the Pendejo Cave Region 17
Ch. 3 Soils and Sediments of Rough Canyon and Pendejo Cave 25
Ch. 4 The Pleistocene Vertebrate Fauna from Pendejo Cave 37
Ch. 5 The Modern Vegetation of Rough Canyon and the Flora of Pendejo Cave 67
Ch. 6 Late Pleistocene and Late Holocene Macrobotanical Remains from Rough Canyon 105
Ch. 7 Isotopic Studies of Changing Environments and Climates 121
Sect. II Evidence of Human Occupation
Ch. 8 Stratigraphy and Features of Pendejo Cave 125
Ch. 9 Radiocarbon Chronology of Pendejo Cave 173
Ch. 10 Source of Carbonate Lithic Artifacts in Pendejo Cave 191
Ch. 11 The Lithic Assemblage of Pendejo Cave 199
Ch. 12 Use-Wear Analysis of Some Pendejo Lithic Artifacts 257
Ch. 13 Worked Bone from Pendejo Cave 277
Ch. 14 The Ceramic Assemblage from Pendejo Cave 291
Ch. 15 The Perishable Artifacts 297
Ch. 16 Friction-Skin Imprints and Hair 417
Sect. III Conclusions
Ch. 17 The Way of Life Manifested by the Zones at Pendejo Cave 433
Ch. 18 Early Inhabitants of the Americas: Pendejo Cave and Beyond 469
Ch. 19 Summary, Implications, and Problems 507
Index 517

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