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Presents a comprehensive synthesis of a decade of investigations conducted by research teams working in different parts of the Old Riverbed Delta and explores questions about how the old riverbed was formed, how its distributary system changed through time, and how these changes affected early foragers. It concludes with an integrated summary and interpretation.
About the author
David B. Madsen is a research fellow at the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin; and an adjunct professor in the anthropology departments of both Texas A&M University and Texas State University. He is the author of
Entering America: Northeast Asia and Beringia before the Last Glacial Maximum (University of Utah Press, 2004).
Dave N. Schmitt is a research scientist at the Desert Research Institute Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences and adjunct lecturer at Southern Methodist University. He is coauthor (with David Madsen) of
Buzz-Cut Dune and Fremont Foraging at the Margin of Horticulture, UUAP No. 124, and of
Camels Back Cave, UUAP No. 125 (both University of Utah Press, 2005).
David Page is an assistant research archaeologist at the Desert Research Institute Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences.
Summary
Presents a comprehensive synthesis of a decade of investigations conducted by research teams working in different parts of the Old Riverbed Delta and explores questions about how the old riverbed was formed, how its distributary system changed through time, and how these changes affected early foragers. It concludes with an integrated summary and interpretation.
