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Fossil Bison and Associated Artifacts from Milnesand, New Mexico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

E. H. Sellards
E. H. Sellards*
Affiliation:
Texas Memorial Museum Austin, Texas
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Several Early man hunting sites have been discovered and excavated by various institutions in and near the High Plains region of Texas and New Mexico, including the Folsom, San Jon, and Clovis, or Blackwater Draw, localities in New Mexico, and the Miami, Plainview, Lipscomb, and Lubbock localities in Texas. To the west and north are similar sites in Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas. This large region, including a part of the great interior plains, was indeed for early man a big game hunting area of the North American continent.

A new hunting site in this region, located in the southern part of Roosevelt County near Milnesand, New Mexico, about 40 miles south of Portales, is here described. This locality, containing artifacts, a bison-bone bed and charred bison bones, is in a sand-dune region about 3 miles northeast of Milnesand post office. (The name Milnesand is derived from “mill in the sand,” a term formerly applied to a windmill and watering place located near the present town.) The first artifacts obtained from the locality were collected by Ted Williamson of Milnesand.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 20 , Issue 4Part1 , April 1955 , pp. 336 - 344
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1955

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