title: The Buttermilk Creek complex and the origins of Clovis at the Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas.
abstract: Compelling archaeological evidence of an occupation older than Clovis (~12.8 to 13.1 thousand years ago) in North America is present at only a few sites, and the stone tool assemblages from these sites are small and varied. The Debra L. Friedkin site, Texas, contains an assemblage of 15,528 artifacts that define the Buttermilk Creek Complex, which stratigraphically underlies a Clovis assemblage and dates between ~13.2 and 15.5 thousand years ago. The Buttermilk Creek Complex confirms the emerging view that people occupied the Americas before Clovis and provides a large artifact assemblage to explore Clovis origins.
authors: Center for the Study of the First Americans, Departments of Anthropology and Geography, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352, USA. mwaters@tamu.edu
authors: Michael R
authors: MR
authors: Waters
authors: Steven L
authors: SL
authors: Forman
authors: Thomas A
authors: TA
authors: Jennings
authors: Lee C
authors: LC
authors: Nordt
authors: Steven G
authors: SG
authors: Driese
authors: Joshua M
authors: JM
authors: Feinberg
authors: Joshua L
authors: JL
authors: Keene
authors: Jessi
authors: J
authors: Halligan
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Lindquist
authors: James
authors: J
authors: Pierson
authors: Charles T
authors: CT
authors: Hallmark
authors: Michael B
authors: MB
authors: Collins
authors: James E
authors: JE
authors: Wiederhold
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000266:history*; D001106:Archaeology; D019015:Geologic Sediments; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D013781:Texas