Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1989
Abstract
During the decade following the first verification of humankind in the New World, Early Man, or Paleo-Indian remains, as they were variously called, were eagerly sought. Such archeological sites, in Late Quaternary deposits, were by no means numerous. Yet persistent search revealed them, and in some numbers, particularly in the fringes of the westernmost Plains. Nowhere were they more abundant than in the southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Among them is the Yellowhouse Draw site, perhaps best known as the Lubbock Lake site, at Lubbock, Texas. The occupation area, extensive by American standards (ca. 300 acres) was discovered in 1935 incident to the construction of a reservoir. Systematic archeological investigation began in 1939 and subsequently has been renewed several times; the most recent attack is the subject of the volume under review.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly WINTER 1989. Copyright 1989 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.