Archaeological Recovery of the Bowser Road Mastodon, Orange County, New York (Signed)
North Andover, Massachusetts: ASAA / Persimmon Press Monographs in Archaeology, 2017.
Paperback.
Signed on the first free endpaper by the author in North Andover, MA on 02/05/2021.
With appendices by Lerick Allen, A. V. Andedji, Scott G. Beld, Lang DeLancey, Mark Demitroff, Joseph J. El Adli, Daniel C. Fisher, Robert Langenburg, Malcolm LeCompte, Abdel Mohamed, Guy Robinson, A. West, and Timothy Witwer. Foreword by Russell Judkins.
From the wrapper flap: The Bowser Road site, located in Orange County, New York harbored the 13,000-year-old butchered remains of an Ice Age giant - the American mastodon. After they had harvested the meat, bone, tusk ivory and other raw materials that were important to them, two cooperating Clovis bands ritually deposited spear-throwers and other mastodon bone and ivory artifacts at the head of the carcass. The ritual may have been performed every time a proboscidean was killed in order to ensure the success of future hunts. As dictated by tradition, youthful hunters may have come of age during periodic hunts, earning their place in adult society. Conquering the mastodon, one of the most formidable mammals to walk the earth, gave meaning to the lives of ancient (Clovis) hunters. This act, as revealed by the archaeological discoveries at Bowser Road described in this work, was played out countless times by their forebears who inhabited Ice Age Eurasia.
Item #9027008-1/2 x 11-1/8", stiff pictorial wrappers with folding flaps, 364pp, 11 appendices, indices, information about the authors, frontis. illustration, 144 text figures in color and black and white, 10 tables, with additional color plates and figures in appendices.
A very fine, bright copy.
Price: $125.00