Articles Related to the Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, a.k.a. the Clovis Site
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Agogino, George A.
1964 Blackwater Draw Summer Field School Progress Report. Oklahoma Anthropological Society Bulletin, 12.
1965 Mammoth Hunters of the Llano Estacado. Earth Science 18(5):204-208.
1968 Archeological Excavations at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, New Mexico, 1963-1964. National Geographic Society Research Reports, 1963 Projects Grant # 415, pp. 1-7.
1969 Paleontological and Zoological Materials from Blackwater Locality No. 1. American Philosophical Yearbook 1969:275.
1988 The History of Blackwater Draw. The Artifact, 26(1), 35-38.
1990 Blackwater Draw, Locality No.1, History of Current Research and Interpretation. Chesopiean, 28.
1993 Clovis Point Caches, Are They Ceremonial? Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Southern California, 18(1):8.
1999 A Clovis Well at the Type Site 11,500 B.C.: The Oldest Prehistoric Well in America, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 14(5), 455-470.
Agogino, George A., David K. Patterson, and Deborah E. Patterson
1976 Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, South Bank: Report for the Summer of 1974. Plains Anthropologist 21(3):213-223.
Agogino, George A. and Irwin Rovner
1965 Eastern New Mexico University Excavations at Blackwater Draw, Locality No.1. International Association for Quaternary Research. VII International Congress, 1965:3.
1969 Preliminary Report of a Stratified Post-Folsom Sequence at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1. American Antiquity 34:175-176.
Antevs, Ernst
1935 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico, Part II, Age of the Clovis Lake Clays. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Volume 87:304-312.
1949 Geology of the Clovis Sites. Appendix in Ancient Man in North America, 3rd ed., by H. M. Wormington. Denver Museum of Natural history, Denver.
1955 Geologic-Climate Dating in the West. American Antiquity 20:317-335.
Boldurian, Anthony T.
1986 Draft Outline Plans for Development of the Blackwater Draw Site Permanent Open-Air Exhibit, National Park Recreation and Education Facility, and Future Archaeological Research, submitted to J. L. Montgomery and E. L. Frost, Eastern New Mexico University, June 30, Manuscript On-File, Clovis Archives, Latrobe, Pennsylvania.
1990 Lithic Technology at the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw: A Stratified Folsom Site in Eastern New Mexico. With contributions by David C. Hyland and Thomas R. Anderson. Plains Anthropologist Memoir 24:1-115.
1991 Folsom Mobility and Organization of Lithic Technology: A View from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, Plains Anthropologist 36:281-295.
2004 James Ridgley Whiteman, 1910-2003: A Memorial, Plains Anthropologist 49:85-90.
2007a Clovis Beveled Rod Manufacture: An Elephant Bone Experiment, North American Archaeologist 28:29-57.
2007b Weaponry of Clovis Hunters at Blackwater Draw, in Seeking Our Past: An Introduction to North American Archaeology, by S. W. Neusius and G. T. Gross, Bonus Case Study D.2, Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 57-67.
2008 Clovis Type-Site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico: A History, 1929-2009. North American Archaeologist 29:65-89.
Boldurian, Anthony T., and George A. Agogino
1982 A Reexamination of Spring Deposited Lithics from Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1. Plains Anthropologist 27:211-216.
Boldurian, A. T., G. A. Agogino, P. H. Shelley, and M. C. Slaughter
1987 Folsom Biface Manufacture, Retooling, and Site Function at the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw. Plains Anthropologist 32:299-311.
Boldurian, A. T., and J. L. Cotter
1999 Clovis Revisited: New Perspectives on Paleoindian Adaptations from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Monography 103, Philadelphia.
Boldurian, Anthony T., and Ellen E. Hoffman
2009 Clovis Blade Manufacture: Analytical Procedure to Infer “Technique.” North American Archaeologist 30(2):167-194.
Boldurian, A. T. and S. M. Hubinsky
1994 Preforms in Folsom Lithic Technology: A View from Blackwater Draw, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 39:445-464.
Clarke, W. T. Jr.
1938 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico, Part VII: Pleistocene Mollusks from the Clovis Gravel Pit and Vicinity. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy: of Natural Sciences 90:119-121.
Condon, P. C.
2000 Technological Comparisons of Two Clovis Blade Caches Recovered from Blackwater Locality No. 1. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Philadelphia.
Cotter, John L.
1937 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico, Part IV,—Report on the Excavations at the Gravel Pit in 1936. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 89:1-16.
1938 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico, Part VI: Report on the Field Season of 1937. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 90:113-117.
Crawford, George T.
1999 Blackwater Locality No. 1 Master Plan. Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Dittert, A. E.
1957 Salvage excavations at Blackwater Draw No. 1 Locality near Portales, New Mexico. Museum of New Mexico, Highway Salvage Archaeology 3:1-9.
Evans, Glen L.
1949 Accession Notes. On file at the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory and Texas Memorial Museum, Austin.
1951 Prehistoric Wells in Eastern New Mexico. American Antiquity 17:1-9.
1986 E. H. Sellards’ Contributions to Paleoindian Studies. In Guidebook to the Archaeological Geology of Classic Paleoindian Sites on the Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico, edited by V. T. Holliday, 7-18. Department of Geography, Texas A & M University, San Antonio.
Fitting, J. E.
1963 A Gamma Ray Analysis of Fossil Bone From Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1. Radioactivity of Prehistoric Materials, Radiocarbon, pp. 76-89.
Fryxell, Roald
1972 Detailed Description of Beds, North Bank, El Llano Dig No. 1. In Blackwater Locality No. 1: A Stratified /early Man site in Eastern New Mexico, by James J. Hester, pp. 78-82. Publications of the Ft. Burgwin Research Center 8.
Green, F. Earl
1962 Additional Notes on Prehistoric Wells at the Clovis Site. American Antiquity 28:230-234.
1963 The Clovis Blades: An Important Addition to the Llano Complex. American Antiquity 29:145-165.
1992 Comments on the report of a Worked Mammoth Tusk from the Clovis Site. American Antiquity, 57:331-337.
Haynes, C. Vance Jr.,
1964 Fluted Projectile Points: Their Age and Dispersion. Science 145:1408 -1413.
1969 The Earliest Americans. Science, Vol. 166:709-715,
1970 Geochronology of Man-Mammoth Sites and Their Bearing on the Origin of the Llano Complex. In Pleistocene and Recent Environments of the Central Great Plains, edited by W. Dort, Jr. and J. K. Jones, Jr., pp. 72-92. University of Kansas press, Lawrence.
1975 Pleistocene and Recent Stratigraphy. In Late Pleistocene Environments of the Southern High Plains, edited by Fred Wendorf and James J. Hester, 57-96. Fort Burgwin Research Center Publication No. 9. Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
1980 The Clovis Culture. Canadian Journal of Anthropology 1:115-121.
1982 Were Clovis Progenitors in ‘Beringia? In Paleoecology of Berginia, edited by D. M. Hopkins, J. W. Matthews Jr., C. E. Schweger, and S. B. Young, pp. 383-398. Academic Press, New York.
1984 Stratigraphy and Late Pleistocene Extinction in the United States. In Quaternary Extinctions. Paul S. Martin and Richard G. Klein ed.. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Az., pp. 345-353.
1995 Geochronology of paleoenvironmental change, Clovis type site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico. Geoarchaeology 10: 317-388.
Haynes Jr., C. Vance and George A. Agogino
1966 Prehistoric Springs and Geochronology of the Clovis Site, New Mexico. American Antiquity 31:812-821.
1986 Geo-chronology of Sandia Cave. Smithsonian Contributions to Anthropology No. 32.
Washington, D.C.
1987 Clovis Origins Update. The Kiva, 52(2):83-93.
1992 Contributions of Radiocarbon Dating to the Geochronology of the Peopling of the New World. In Radiocarbon After Four Decades, edited by R. E. Taylor, A. Long, and R. Kra. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
1991 Geoarchaeological and Paleohydrological Evidence for a Clovis-age Drought in North America and its Bearing on Extinction. Quaternary Research 35:438-450.
Haynes, C. Vance, Jeffrey J. Saunders, Dennis Stanford and George Agogino
1992 Reply to F. E. Green’s Comments on the Clovis Site American Antiquity 57:338-344.
Haynes, C. Vance, Dennis Stanford and George Agogino
1993 Report on Geoarchaeological Research at the Clovis Type Site, Blackwater Draw, NM, Progress Report submitted to the NM Office of Cultural Affairs for Archaelogical Permit SE-66.
1995a Report on Geo-Archaeological Research at the Clovis Type Site 1992-1994. Progress Report Submitted to the NM Office of Cultural Affairs Historical Preservation Division for Archaeological Permit SE-92, 1-58.
1995b A Clovis Well at the Type Site Appendix I, (The Oldest Prehistoric Well in America). Progress Report Submitted to the NM Office of Cultural Affairs Historical Preservation Division for Archaeological Permit SE-92, 1-17.
Haynes, C. Vance Jr., Dennis Stanford, Margaret Jodri, and George A. Agogino
1986 Blackwater Draw Locality 1: History, Current Research, and Interpretations. In Geology of Classic Paleoindian Sites on the Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico, edited by Vance T. Holliday, 82-112. The Department of Geography, Texas A & M University, San Antonio.
1990 Geochronology of the Outlet Channel and South Wall, Clovis Type Site, Blackwater Draw New Mexico. Report of 1983-1984 Investigations available in Blackwater Draw Site Records, Collection Records at Portales, New Mexico.
1991a Geoarchaeological and Paleohydrological Evidence for a Clovis-age Drought in North America and its Bearing on Extinction. Quaternary Research 35:438-450.
1991b Report on Geoarchaeological Research at the Clovis Type Site, Blackwater Draw, New Mexico,
1991. Blackwater Draw Collection Records, Portales, New Mexico.
Haynes, C. Vance Jr., Dennis Stanford, Margaret Jodry, Joanne Dickenson, John L. Montgomery, Phillip H. Shelley, Irwin Rovner, and George A. Agogino.
1999 A Clovis Well at the Type Site 11,500 BC: The Oldest Prehistoric Well in America. Geoarchaeology: An International Journal. 14(5):455 – 470.
Hester, James J.
1966 Origins of the Clovis Culture. Proceedings of the 36th International Congress of Americanists, pp. 127-138.
1972 Blackwater Locality No. 1: A Stratified Early Man Site in Eastern New Mexico. With sections by Ernest L. Lundelius, Jr. and Roald Fryxell. Fort Burgwin Research Center, Inc, Southern Methodist University, Rancho de Taos, New Mexico.
Hester, James J., and J. Grady
1977 Paleoindian Social Patterns on the Llano Estacado. In Paleoindian Lifeways, edited by Eileen Johnson. The Museum Journal 17:78-96. Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.
Hofman, Jack L.
1989 Prehistoric Cultural History. Hunters and Gatherers in the Southern Great Plains. In: From Clovis to Comanchero: Archaeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains, by Jack Hoffman, Robert L. Brooks, Joe S. Hays, Douglas Owsley, Richard L. Jantz, Murray K. Marks, and Mary H. Manhein, pp. 25-60. Arkansas Archeological Survey Research Series 35. Fayetteville.
Holliday, Vance T.
1985 New Data on the Stratigraphy and Pedology of the Clovis and Plainview Sites, Southern High Plains. Quaternary Research Volume 23:388-402.
1992 Soils in Archaeology; Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington and London.
1995 Stratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of Late Quaternary Valley Fills on the Southern High Plains. Geological Society of America Memoir 186. Dept. Of Geography, Univ. Of Wis. Madison 53706
1997 Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains. Univ. of Texas, Austin.
Howard, Edgar B.
1933 Association of Artifacts with Mammoth and Bison in Eastern New Mexico. Paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences Meeting, Boston.
1935 Evidence of Early Man in North America. The Museum Journal, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania 24 (2-3), Philadelphia.
1936 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico. Part I, Introduction. Proceedings of The Academy of Natural Sciences. Volume 87:299-303.
Jelinek, Arthur J.
1956 Field Notes for the excavations in the Brown Sand Wedge at the Clovis site. On file at the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab, Texas Memorial Museum, Austin.
Johnson, Eileen
1986 The 1949 Bone Bed from the Carbonaceous Unit at Blackwater Draw Locality #1. In Current Research in the Pleistocene, Vol 3, pp 7-9.
Johnson, Eileen, Vance T. Holliday
1997 Analysis of Paleoindian Bonebeds at the Clovis Site: New Data from old Excavations. Plains Anthropology 42(161):329-352.
Katz, Carolina
1997 The History of Blackwater Draw. Eastern New Mexico University Printing Services, Portales, New Mexico 88130.
Lundelius Jr., Ernest L.
1972 Vertebrate Remains from the Gray Sand, in Blackwater Locality No. 1: A Stratified, Early Man Site in Eastern New Mexico, by James J. Hester. Fort Burgwin Research Center Publication No. 8. Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Pages 148-163.
Marshall, E.
1990 Clovis Counter Revolution. Science 249:738-742.
Meltzer, David J., and Michael B. Collins
1987 Prehistoric Water Wells on the Southern High Plains: Clues to Altithermal Climate. Journal of Field Archaeology 14:9-28.
Meltzer, David J.
1989 Why Don’t We Know When the First People Came to North America? American Antiquity, 54:471-490.
1992 “Is there a Clovis Adaptation?” IN From Kostenki to Clovis: Upper-Paleolithic- Paleo-Indian Adaptations, edited by O. Ssoffer and N. D. Praslov, pp. 293-310. Plenum Press, New York.
Montgomery, John and Joanne Dickenson
1992 Five More Llano Complex Blades at Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, Portales, New Mexico. Paper presented at 50th Annual Plains Conference, November 14, 1992, Lincoln, Nebraska. Current Research in the Pleistocene 10:??.
1994 Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 Archaeological Report; Phase 1 Development of Access, Security, Conservation, and Interpretation in 1990. Unpublished Report to State Historical Preservation Office, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and in Blackwater Draw Site Archives, Portales, New Mexico.
Patrick, Ruth
1938 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico. Part V-Diatom Evidence from the Mammoth Pit. Proceedings, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 90:15-24.
Price, W. Armstrong
1944 The Clovis Site: Regional Physiography and Geology. American Antiquity 9:401-407.
Roberts, Frank H. H.
1937 New Developments in the Problem of the Folsom Complex. In Smithsonian Institution Explorations and Field Work in 1936. Washington, D. C.
Rovner, Irwin and George Agogino
1967 An Analysis of Fluted and Unfluted Folsom Points from Blackwater Draw. The Master Key 41:131-137.
Saunders, Jeffrey J.
1977 Lehner Ranch Revisited. In Paleo-Indian Lifeways, edited by Eileen Johnson, pp. 48-64. The Museum Journal 17. The Museum at Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas.
1985 A Clovis Ivory Artifact. The Living Museum 47(4).
1991 Mammoths and Mammoth Hunters in the Terminal Pleistocene. In Mammoths, Mastadons, and Human Interaction, edited by John W. Fox and Calvin B. Smith. The University of Chicago Press.
1991 “ The Goshen Paleoindian complex: New Data for Paleoindian Research”. In Clovis: Origins and Adaptations, edited by “R. Bonnichsen and K. L. Turnmire, pp. 133-151. Center for the Study of the First Americans, Oregon State University, Corvallis.
1992 “Blackwater Draw: Mammoths and Mammoth Hunters in the Terminal Pleistocene”. In Proboscidean and Paleoindian Interactions, edited by J. W. Fox, C. b. Smith, and K. T. Frison, G. C. Saunders, Jeffery J., C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Dennis Stanford, and George A. Agogino.
Saunders, J.J., C. Vance Haynes, Jr., Dennis Stanford, and George A. Agogino
1990 A Mammoth-Ivory Semi-fabricate from Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico. American Antiquity 55:112-119.
Saunders, J.J., George A. Agogino, Anthony T. Boldurian, and C. Vance Haynes, Jr.
1991 A Mammoth-Ivory Burnisher-Billet from the Clovis Level, Blackwater Locality No. 1, New Mexico. Plains Anthropologist 36:359-363.
Saunders, Jeffrey J., and Edward B. Daeschler
1994 Descriptive Analyses and Taphonomic Observations of Culturally-modified Mammoths Excavated at “The Gravel Pit”, near Clovis, New Mexico in 1936. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 145:1-28.
Sellards, Elias H.
1940 Early Man in America: Index to Localities and Selected Bibliography. Bulletin Geological Society of America. 51:373-432.
1952 Early Man in America, A Study in Prehistory. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Sellards, Elias H. and Glen L. Evans
1960 The Paleo-Indian Culture Succession in the Central High Plains of Texas and New Mexico. In Men and Cultures, pp. 639-649. Selected papers of the 5th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press.
Shelley, Phillip H.
1984 Paleoindian Movement on the Southern High Plains: A Reevaluation of Inferences Based on the Lithic Evidence from Blackwater Draw. Current Research, 1:35-36.
1988 Report on Summer 1987 Archaeological Examination of the Blackwater Draw S & M Locality. Manuscript on File, Anthropology Program, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Slaughter, B. H.
1975 An Ecological Interpretation of the Brown Sand Wedge Local Fauna. In Late Pleistocene Environments of the Southern High Plains, edited by Fred Wendorf and James J. Hester, 179-192. Fort Burgwin Research Center Publication No. 9 Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
Smith, S. and George Agogino
1966 A Comparison of Whole and Fragmentary Paleo-Indian Points from Blackwater Draw. Plains Anthropologist 11:201-203.
Stanford, Dennis J., and F. J. Broilo
1981 Frank’s Folsom Camp Site. The Artifact 19(3&4):1-11.
Stanford, Dennis J. and Jane S. Day, ed..
1983 Pre-Clovis Occupation South of the Ice Sheets. In Early Man in the New World, edited by Richard Shutler, Jr., pp 65-72. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills.
1992 Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies. Denver Museum of Natural History and University Press of Colorado.
Stock, Chester, and Frances D. Bode
1937 The Occurrence of Flints and Extinct Animals in Pluvial Deposits near Clovis, New Mexico, Part III: Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of the Late Quaternary. Proceedings Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences 88:219-241.
Turner, C. G., II
1985 The dental search for Native American Origins. In Out of Asia: Peopling of the Americas and the Pacific, edited by R. Kirk and E. Szathmary, pp.31-87. The Journal of Pacific History, Canberra.
Warnica, James M.
1966 New Discoveries at the Clovis Site. American Antiquity 31:345-357.
Wendorf, Fred, and James J. Hester, Editors
1962 Early Man’s Utilization of the Great Plains Environment. American Antiquity 28:159-171.
1975 Late Pleistocene Environments of the Southern High Plains. Fort Burgwin Research Center Publication No. 9, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico.
Wilson, Robert W.
1987 The Clovis Man Site: A Turning Point in Opinion. Current Research in the Pleistocene 4:84-85.
Wormington, H. M.
1957 Ancient Man in North America. 4th Edition. Denver Museum of Natural History. Popular Series 4.
1983 Early Man in the New World, 1970-1980. In Early Man in the New World, edited by R. Shutler, Jr., pp.191-195. Sage Publications, Beverly Hills.
Master’s Theses and Doctoral Dissertations
Boldurian, Anthony T.
1981 An Analysis of a Paleoindian Lithic Assemblage from Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 in Eastern New Mexico. Unpublished Master’s thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Broilo, Frank J.
1971 An Investigation of Surface Collected Clovis, Folsom, and Midland Projectile Points from Blackwater Draw and Adjacent Localities. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Hughes, Elaine
1984 The Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1 Collection of the Museum, Texas Tech University: A Case Study in Conservation, Collection Management, and Data Reconstruction. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Texas Tech University.
Jelinek, Arthur J.
1960 An Archaeological Survey of the Middle Pecos River Valley and the Adjacent Llano Estacado. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Katz, Carolina
1996 Archaeological Collection Management, an Assessment of Faunal Collections from Excavations in 1971, 1972, and 1974 at Blackwater Draw, Portales, New Mexico. Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Kilby, J. D.
2008 An Investigation of Clovis Caches: Content, Function, and Technological Organization. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.
Reutter, Stacie
1996 A Technological and Typological Study of a Plainview Site on the High Plains of Eastern New Mexico. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Robbins, M. Weston
1941 The Pleistocene Geology of Portales Valley, Roosevelt County, New Mexico, and Certain Adjacent Areas. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, University of Nebraska.
Pflepsen, Paula M. Samuelson
2003 Analysis of an Archaic Faunal Assemblage At Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Slaughter, Mark C.
1989 A Geochemical Analysis of Sediments from the Mitchell Locality of Blackwater Draw. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Department of Anthropology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
Stevens, Dominique
1973 Blackwater Draw Locality No. 1, 1963-1972, and Its Relevance to the Firstview Complex. Unpublished Master’s Thesis, Anthropology Department, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales.
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