Review of \u3ci\u3eOn the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado. \u3c/i\u3eBy Bonnie J. Clark

Bonnie Clark\u27s book is a welcome addition to the small body of published literature regarding Great Plains historical archaeology. It concerns two habitation sites located on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver site, a modern military base in the canyon lands of the Purgatory River (which the Spanish named EI Rio de Las Animas Pedidas en Purgatorio) in southeastern Colorado. The river is the lifeblood of this region, with a deep record of occupation by both prehistoric and historic populations. Clark searches for Hispanic Colorado, which she identifies as both a people and a place. But unlike other historical archaeology studies, this one has few written records to rely upon for building a story of the peoples of the past. The goal of Clark\u27s work is to place these two sites into a broader social fabric of Hispanic place

Review of \u3ci\u3eOn the Edge of Purgatory: An Archaeology of Place in Hispanic Colorado. \u3c/i\u3eBy Bonnie J. Clark

Bonnie Clark\u27s book is a welcome addition to the small body of published literature regarding Great Plains historical archaeology. It concerns two habitation sites located on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver site, a modern military base in the canyon lands of the Purgatory River (which the Spanish named EI Rio de Las Animas Pedidas en Purgatorio) in southeastern Colorado. The river is the lifeblood of this region, with a deep record of occupation by both prehistoric and historic populations. Clark searches for Hispanic Colorado, which she identifies as both a people and a place. But unlike other historical archaeology studies, this one has few written records to rely upon for building a story of the peoples of the past. The goal of Clark\u27s work is to place these two sites into a broader social fabric of Hispanic place

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eFrontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains\u3c/i\u3e Edited by Robert H. Brunswig and Bonnie L. Pitblado

For a little over 75 years, Colorado has played host to important discoveries regarding the peopling of the New World during the latest Pleistocene, with the earliest human occupations dating to at least l3,000 years before the present. Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology is a welcome addition to the already large body of research concerning this popular subject. The edited volume contains an introduction, ten chapters broken into three sections, an afterword, and a thorough index. Part 1 provides the context for the volume, including an environmental reconstruction of the Front Range (J.P. Doerner) and an overview of the history of Colorado Paleo indian research (Pitblado and Brunswig). Part 2 contains four important papers regarding the Dent mammoth site, the first well-documented association between humans (Clovis complex) and mammoths in all of North America (Brunswig; D.C. Fisher and D.L. Fox; J.J. Saunders; L.S. Cummings and R.M. Albert). Part 3 offers four assorted papers on pollen and archaeoclimatic reconstructions of northwestern Colorado (Cummings, R.A. Varney, and R.A. Bryson), a site structure analysis ofthe Barger Folsom camp in Middle Park (T.A. Surovell and N.M. Waguespack), an analysis of Paleoindian land use in the Front Range and the Middle/North Park Basins (Brunswig), and the differences between the James Allen and Angostura point complexes of the Southern Rocky Mountains (Pitblado)