Archaeology talk March 17 in Pinedale
11,000-year old Sisters Hill Paleoindian Site in Wyoming
March 12, 2020
The Upper Green River Basin Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Society will hold a meeting on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 at 6:30PM at the Museum of the Mountain Man in Pinedale. There will be a short business meeting followed by a special guest speaker. Free presentation, public welcome to attend.
Special guest speaker will be Cody Newton, an archaeologist who has been working in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains for over 20 years. His talk will be "Continuing Investigations at the Sisters Hill Paleoindian Site (48JO314)."
The Sisters Hill Site is located just south of Buffalo, Wyoming. Archaeologists have found evidence at the site of pre-historic human use dating back to 11,000 years ago, more than 9,000 years before the Egyptian pyramids were built. Reinvestigations over the last three years have shown that there are multiple Paleoindian occupations at the Sisters Hill Site spanning approximately 1,250 calendar years. Beginning in the Late Pleistocene, the site stratigraphy spans the entirety of the Holocene. Carbon and nitrogen assays from 13 sequential sediment samples provide a long-term paleoenvironmental record giving insight into the conditions that facilitated hunter-gatherer use of the site. In 2019, the Hell Gap component at the site was discovered to extend significantly to the south indicating that a large block of this cultural level remains intact. This presentation will discuss these results along with a summary of the archaeological findings to date.
Cody Newton is currently an archaeology instructor at Central Wyoming College. His research foci include Paleoindian studies, prehistoric bison-based subsistence and bison evolution, early European exploration, Native American equestrianism, the historic Plains Indian Wars, and historic Euro-American settlement.
Related Links
www.sublette.com/was - Upper Green River Basin Chapter of the Wyoming Archaeological Society
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