Category Archives: lithic analysis

Knife River Quarry to be Dedicated as NHL

Posted on June 3, 2012 by George Crawford

Knife River Quarry is well known to those who study prehistoric lithics on the Plains of North America.  Owned and protected for many years by the Lynch family of North Dakota, the quarry was included as a National Historic Landmark … Continue reading →

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From the Log of the Starship Enterprise

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Ethan Ortega

In January of 1967, an episode of Star Trek entitled “The Galileo Seven” aired, and caught the attention of Dr. George Agogino, then Director of the Paleo-Indian Institute at Eastern New Mexico University. In the episode, Spock and his crew … Continue reading →

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Blade Cache

Posted on February 26, 2012 by George Crawford

A little lithic eye-candy for tool-users out there.  These are some quick photos I shot while making an examination of some blades for the ongoing tool analysis here at Blackwater Locality 1 (LA3324).  Excuse the poor quality of the photos … Continue reading →

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Artifact of the Week 2/6/2012

Posted on February 4, 2012 by trowelgal

Gray chert Folsom point (catalog number 25285) recovered 15 August 1985.  Discovered on the east side surface of the South Bank.  The specimen appears in Boldurian’s (1990; pp 70-71, Figure 38A) Plains Anthropologist Memoir 24 on Lithic Technology at the … Continue reading →

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13th Annual Cynthia Irwin-Williams Lecture

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Ethan Ortega

Every spring Eastern New Mexico University’s Department of Anthropology and Mu Alpha Nu (Anthropology Club) host a lecture series held in honor of Cynthia Irwin-Williams, a past professor of anthropology at ENMU. The event is free and open to the … Continue reading →

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A Surprise Find

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Ethan Ortega

Sometimes in archaeology things don’t always go as planned, and sometimes the past hides gems under our noses (or boots). Last November, students working with ENMU faculty as a part of an NSF New Mexico EPSCoR grant gained experience in climate change … Continue reading →

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