Maxwell Museum Presents Lecture on Coping With Change at the End of the Pleistocene

Senior Research Coordinator at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology and Research Associate Professor with the Department of Anthropology Dr. Bruce Huckell is the featured speaker tonight at the Hibben Center, room 105. His 7:30 p.m. lecture is “Coping with change at the End of the Pleistocene: A Clove Cache in North Dakota.”

Huckell says Almost 40 years ago a pheasant hunter in southwestern North Dakota found the first artifacts from a large cache of stone artifacts exposed in a plowed field. The nature of the artifacts and their age remained uncertain until 2006 when they were recognized as Clovis bifaces and a few other tools. Now designated the Beach Cache, the setting and contents of this large cache--perhaps 140 artifacts--are described, and it is compared to the 20 or so other known Clovis caches.

Huckell received his Ph.D. in 1990 from the University of Arizona, Tuscon. His research has focused on the subsistence-settlement systems of hunting-gathering societies in arid and semiarid environments, particularly in the North American Southwest and the western portion of North America.

His experience includes the study and interpretation of lithic artifacts, geoarchaeology, and zooarchaeology, and the organization of traditional farming systems in the New World. Dr. Huckell has published extensively on these topics in books, scholarly journals and articles.

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