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Browns Valley and Milnesand Similarities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Louis H. Powell
Louis H. Powell*
Affiliation:
The Science MuseumSt. Paul, Minn
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For the student of the archaeology of the Plains, Browns Valley Man has been an engima. Loosely dated between 8000 and 12,000 years ago by Jenks (Jenks 1937a: 17) it has remained in splendid isolation — an important group of artifacts found in a burial site with the skeleton of a man who may be presumed to have been their maker — with, heretofore, no known close affiliations. That he hunted the giant bison has been inferred in an unpublished script by Lloyd Wilford to accompany a filmstrip on Minnesota archaeology being prepared by the University of Minnesota. This must be presumed to be based on one or both of 2 midden sites of giant bison dug by Jenks, Wilford, and Eddy. One of these has been described in a brief note in Science by Jenks (Jenks 1937b: 243–4). The other site has no published data.

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American Antiquity , Volume 22 , Issue 3 , January 1957 , pp. 298 - 300
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1957

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