Paleo to Pioneer – Studying humans and our environment from the Stone Age to the Age of Steam
Studying humans and our environment from the Stone Age to the Age of Steam
Late in the summer of 1927 Harold Cook and Jesse Figgins of the Denver Museum led an excavation in Dead Horse Gulch* near Folsom, New Mexico where an extinct animal, the large Pleistocene bison ( Bison antiquus occidentalis , up to 8 feet tall for a good sized male) was found directly associated with human artifacts in undisturbed layers of dirt. Both Cook and Figgins are very well known for this find within archaeology and even anthropology in general, though the Wikipedia page is a travesty that will be
When internet book sales first got going in the late 90s or so there was a good period when really interesting rarer or unusual things came out of the woodwork without much comparative price discovery and a true bargain could be found every now and then. By dumb luck I picked up a 1923 first edition, first printing, of Fifty Years on the Old Frontier: As Cowboy, Hunter, Guide, Scout, and Ranchman signed by James Henry Cook for 25 or 30 bucks, heaven knows what it would go for now. James was the much bett
Paleo to Pioneer – Studying humans and our environment from the Stone Age to the Age of Steam