Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country

Description

Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology of the Colorado High Country offers data on 8,000 years of cultural change across a wide area of Colorado and updates archaeological methodology in the mountain West. Synthesizing research from several important, previously neglected sites, the book anchors its findings in a massive body of data gathered over eight years at Tenderfoot–a large lithic-scatter site once categorized as insignificant. Advances in spatial analysis, theoretical approaches, and excavation methods have allowed lithic-scatter sites, once considered less revealing than intact structures and similar sites, to yield startlingly rich cultural evidence. Stiger’s findings hold promise for future research, as high-altitude surface sites are common, under-researched, and often well-preserved. The advances in archaeological method and theory that enabled Stiger’s outstanding results in Colorado will allow many other Western sites to yield fascinating evidence.