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Middle Prehistoric Period Adaptations and Paleoenvironment in the Northwestern Plains: The Sun River Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Sally T. Greiser ,
T. Weber Greiser  and
Susan M. Vetter
Sally T. Greiser
Affiliation:
Historical Research Associates, P. O. Box 7086, Missoula, MT 59807
T. Weber Greiser
Affiliation:
Historical Research Associates, P. O. Box 7086, Missoula, MT 59807
Susan M. Vetter
Affiliation:
Historical Research Associates, P. O. Box 7086, Missoula, MT 59807
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Abstract

The Sun River site (24CA74) near Great Falls, Montana, is significant because the six occupation levels span the millennia of notable climatic change from late Altithermal to Medithermal conditions. Informative paleoenvironmental data enhance the archaeological results. Sun River provides an important means for understanding prehistoric adaptations on the Northwestern Plains between 5200 and 3600 B.P.

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American Antiquity , Volume 50 , Issue 4 , October 1985 , pp. 849 - 877
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1985

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