The Significance of Fluted Points in North American Archaeology

Since publication of the first report on the Folsom site in 1927 much has been written on the subject of Folsom and other fluted points. There is, however, no current synthetic of information on fluted points. This paper is an attempt to synthesize the existing data on this subject. An effort will be made to show the significance of fluted points and their place in North American archaeology. Previous efforts dealing with this subject will be discussed with emphasis on terminology used, typologies established, and distribution studies made. Criteria for establishing types of fluted points with be discussed. Published and unpublished material on the principle archaeological sites where fluted points have been found will be considered. Current typologies of fluted points will be reevaluated. New fluted point types will be suggested and tentative distributions for these and for existing types are given. Fluted point tool complexes will be compared and contrasted, and their antiquity will be investigated

Habitat and Distribution of Plants Special to Iowa\u27s Driftless Area

A portion of the Upper Midwest escaped glaciation during the two most recent glacial epochs. This Driftless Area , also known in Iowa as the Paleozoic Plateau , comprises some 39,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) in the states of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Today the highly dissected terrain provides a variety of habitats supporting a rich and diverse flora including many plants special to the area, i.e., principally, in Iowa, restricted to the Driftless Area. These special plants have received much attention, often having been discussed as possible relicts from past floras. However, distribution data for these species beyond the Driftless Area has been compiled for only a few. We present habitat descriptions and mid-western (and North American where appropriate) distribution maps of 74 plant species special to the Iowa portion of the Driftless Area, along with speculation on their origin, with particular reference to late Quaternary events. The exceptional plant diversity and unusual species in the Driftless Area in Iowa result from a complex of factors which include the extreme habitat diversity, the location of the area near the juncture of three regional floras, river corridors which provide migrational pathways from other regional floras, and the relictual nature of a number of species

The Vegetation of the Loess Hills Landform Along the Missouri River

The vascular flora of the Loess Hills landform in southeastern South Dakota, western Iowa, and northwestern Missouri totals 703 species. A species checklist is presented based upon an extensive field study over a four-year period, plus herbarium and literature searches. The geology of the area is discussed briefly, in addition to vegetational, climatic and topographic gradients. The upland prairies of the Loess Hills are similar to the mixed-grass prairies .of the Great Plains more than 70 miles to the west. The mixed-grass prairie of the Loess Hills represent a narrow peninsular range extension into an area which otherwise typically supports tall-grass prairie. At least 17 xerophytic Great Plains species reach the easternmost edge of their ranges on the loess prairies. In Iowa 13 of these species are restricted to the loess bluffs. Three new taxa are added to the vascular flora of Iowa: Asclepias stenophylla Gray, Gaillardia pulchella Foug. and Solidago mollis Bartl

Data On Early Sites In Central New Mexico And Michigan.

PhDCultural anthropologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/179928/2/6813391.pd

Native Farmers' Almanac

We created a relevant Native Farmers’ Almanac website to be used by the native communities of northern New Mexico to pass down traditional farming knowledge to the younger generations. In contrast to The Old Farmers’ Almanac, which contains non-specific farming information, our online Native Farmers’ Almanac houses farming information culturally and geographically unique to New Mexico. We also designed a partnering mobile application (Alman-app) in order to enhance the communication between farmers and educate many young farmers