| Abstract |
After its excavation in the late 1970s, the Sheaman site was considered one of a small number of Clovis campsites in the west, and the archaeological assemblage produced by these and subsequent excavations has been treated in publication as diagnostic of the Clovis techno-complex. However, the radiocarbon record produced by the site has increasingly cast doubt on this cultural affiliation. In this paper, we present four additional radiocarbon ages obtained from bone and calcined bone samples from the 1978 excavation. The results of additional radiocarbon dating suggest that the site is likely younger than Clovis in age, and most likely falls within the period ascribed to Middle Paleoindian techno-complexes of Agate Basin and Hell Gap. |
, Chase M. Mahan 
