Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the AmericanFar West

Katelyn McDonough is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology, director of the Museum of Natural and Cultural History's Archaeology Field School, and curator of Great Basin Archaeology at the University of Oregon. Her research examines relationships between people, foodways, and environment in western North America, with an emphasis on plant use and landscape change during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Richard (Richie) Rosencrance is an instructor at the archaeology field school run by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History at the University of Oregon. His research focuses broadly upon technological innovation, especially in the northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, and more specifically upon late Pleistocene lithic technology and chronology building. Jordan Pratt is currently leading excavations at Weed Lake Ditch, an open-air Paleoindian site in eastern Oregon. Her research centers on the lithic technological organization strategies used by late Pleistocene peoples, particularly in the northern Great Basin.

"This volume provides a valuable snapshot of early lithic technologies in western North America and the relationships of those technologies to other early stone tools and manufacturing techniques in the rest of the continent." - David B. Madsen, Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory