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    Vol. 44 (2023)

    Contents:

    What's the Point? A Flintknapper's Attempt at Replicating Calf Creek Technology (Anthony Miles)

    Experimental Processing of Hackberries and Implications for Archeological Studies (Robert J. Hoard)

    Breaking Bones on White Rock Creek: Evaluating Evidence for Bone Grease Production at the White Rock Type Site (14JWJ) (Matthew E. Hill, Jr.)

    A Late Prehistoric Hunting Camp on the Marais des Cygnes, Eastern Kansas (Jack L. Hofman and Barbara M. Crable)

    One Person's Trash Is Another's Treasure: A Flake Cache from 14BT436 (Christine D. Garst)

    Two Episodes in the History of Archeology at Marion, Kansas (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Jacob V. Brower and the Search for Quivira: A Chapter in the Early History of Kansas Archeology (Donna C. Roper)

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    Vol. 43 (2022)

    Contents:

    What's the Point? A Flintknapper's Perspective on Late Archaic Corner-Notched Points (Anthony Miles)

    The Positive Side of Negative Results: Plant Microfossil Analysis of an Early Ceramic Vessel (Robert J. Hoard, Crystal A. Dozier, and Jennifer Banks)

    The Wullschleger Site (14MH301): More than Half a Century of Searching (Christine D. Garst)

    Oneota Pioneers: Cache Pits and Settlement at the White Rock Site (14JW1), Lovewell Locality, North-Central Kansas (Brad Logan)

    Examination of Ceramic Vessel Sherds from the Kermit Hayes No. 2 Site (14RC13), a Little River Focus Site in Rice County, Kansas (Timothy K. Perttula)

    Gunflints in the Kansas Historical Society's Archeological Collections (Christine D. Garst)

    From Gripper Snappers to Isinglass: A Summary of the 1988 and 1990 Kansas Historical Society's Archeological Investigations at Constitution Hall (14DO321) (Christine D. Garst)

    Jacob V. Brower and the Beginnings of Archeological Field Survey in Kansas (Michael R. Penrod)

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    Vol. 42 (2021)

    Contents:

    A Nineteenth-Century Native American Burial from the Kansas High Plains:  The McKinney Site (14SD301) (Jim D. Feagins)

    A Nineteenth-Century Native American Child's Burial from Meade County, Kansas:  Many Questions, Some Speculations, and Few Answers (Jim D. Feagins)

    Metal Hair Plates from a Native American Burial in Southern Kansas:  The Bissitt Site (14KW310) (Jim D. Feagins)

    Investigations at the Kaw Mission in Council Grove (Tricia Waggoner)

    Keep the Whiskey in the Cellar and the Ammunition on the Windowsills:  Archeology of the Baker Store (14MO701) (Christine D. Garst)

    "It Was Doubtless an Act of Rashness . .. "A Commemorative Artifact from Fort Hays (Christine D. Garst)

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    Vol. 41 (2020)

    Contents:

    A Late Holocene Bison Kill Site in Northwestern Kansas:  The Willis-Beeson Site (14CN6) (Jack L. Hofman and Barbara M. Crable)

    Pottery Reconstruction (Debi L. Aaron)

    Description and Evaluation of Three Reconstructed Keith Phase Ceramic Vessels (Robert J. Hoard and Debi L. Aaron)

    Time, Space, and Form at the Hamon Site (14JF350):  A Multi-Component Late Woodland Site in Northeastern Kansas (Steven Keehner)

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    Vol. 40 (2019)

    Contents:

    Following the 1724 Bourgmont Route through Kansas to the Padouca (Craig Crease)

    The Quixote Site: Late Woodland in Northeastern Kansas (Brad Logan)

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    Vol. 39 (2018)

    Contents:

    A Window to Archaic Gatherers (Allison K. Douglas)

    14MO414: Surface Collection of Artifacts Indicating Possible Kaw Occupation (1848-1873) (Clinton Thomas)

    The Little Stone Store on the Santa Fe Trail: Findings of the 2016 KATP Field School at the Last Chance Store (14MO367) in Council Grove, Kansas (Robert Blasing)

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    Vol. 38 (2017)

    Contents:

    What Were They Doing Up There? Archeology of Mount Sunflower, Western Kansas (Jack L. Hofman and Barbara M. Crable)

    The Kraus 1 Site (14EL313): Investigations by the 2015 Kansas Archeology Training Program Field School (Robert J. Hoard, John R. Bozell, and Gina S. Powell)

    Archeological Investigations of the Adair Cabin (l 4MM327): Results of the 2014 Kansas Archeology Training Program Field School (Christine D. Garst and Robert J. Hoard)

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    Vol. 37 (2016)

    Contents:

    Identification and Protection of a Burial Mound in Riley County, Kansas: Archeological Investigation of 14RY652 (Jakob Hanschu and Lauren W. Ritterbush)

    A Kickapoo Horse Race North of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1833 (Jim D. Feagins)

    The Thomas Johnson/Henry Williams Homestead: A Rural Component of the Nineteenth-Century Settlement of Nicodemus, Kansas (Christine D. Garst, Robert J. Hoard, Daniel E. Hougland, Dan Morrow, Margaret C. Wood, and Virginia A. Wulfkuhle)

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    Vol. 36 (2015)

    Contents:

    Fluted Points from Northern Kansas (Jack L. Hofman and Barbara M. Crable)

    Notes from an Experiment with Primitive Pottery Firing with Opportunistic Thermal Treatment of Chert (Jim D. Feagins and Peggy Feagins)

    Squash Knives: An Experimental Archeology Project (Daniel Hougland)

    Surface Surveys West and South of the Tobias Site (14RC8) (Chris S. Kurtz)

    Central Kansas Petroglyphs: A Decade of KAA Field Research (Kent Sallee)

    The Rock Art Records of James R. Mead (Donald J. Blakeslee)

    Archeological Investigations at Chief Whitehair 's Village Site (14WN143), Wilson County, Kansas (Andrea A. Hunter, John K. Williams, James Wiederhold, Leslie Bush, Christopher G. Leary, Aaron Ridley, Jon Stroik, Ben Goodwin, and Christopher A. Bergman)

    Rock Fences in the Mill Creek Valley, Wabaunsee County, Kansas (Robert J. Hoard and Nicole LeBrun Manlove)

    Inkwells of Old Fort Hays, Kansas (Debi L. Aaron)

    There Is More to Spectacles than First Meets the Eye: An Early Twentieth-Century Pair of Eyeglasses and Case from 14LV427 (Jim D. Feagins)

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    Special Issue Bulletin #3 (2015): The Archaeology of Central Kansas: Based on the Reed Collections from Archaeological Sites in Saline and Ottawa Counties by Donna C. Roper

    Copyright 2015 Kansas Anthropological Association.  The production, printing, and distribution of this book were made possible by the Harold and Margie Reed Publication Fund.

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    Vol. 35 (2014)

    Contents:

    New Point Types for the State of Kansas (Donald J. Blakeslee)

    Coltrain Biface Cache from Wilson County, Kansas (Jack L. Hofman and Debi Aaron)

    A Prehistoric Pipestone Tool Used for Dentate Stamping on Pottery (Robert J. Hoard, Byron M. Strom, E. Malcolm Strom, and Robert J. Speakman)

    New Excavations in Scott State Park: Preliminary Findings from 14SC409 (Sarah Trabert, Matthew E. Hill, Jr., and Delaney Cooley)

    When Ethnography and Archeology Meet:  A Discussion of Dismal River Aspect Mortuary Practices (Sarah Trabert and Matthew E. Hill, Jr.)

    Investigations at 14EL311, Ellis County, Kansas:  Presumed Location of Billy Dixon's Whisky Ranch (Steven R. Roberts)

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    Vol. 34 (2013)

    Contents:

    Jetmore Mammoth Site (14HOI), Hodgeman County, Kansas (Brendon P. Asher and Steven R. Holen)

    Clovis Archeology in the Central Plains, Republic County, Kansas (Jack L Hofman)

    The Douglass Complex and Table Rock Points:  New Light on Old Problems (Donald J. Blakeslee)

    Shamans of the Bluffs: A Critical Examination of Causal Relationships with Kansas Petroglyphs (Steven Patrick Keehner)

    Testing at 14RP1: House 26, Fortification, and Geophysical Anomalies (Robert J. Hoard and Christopher S. Hord)

    The Search for the Pawnee Indian White Fox's Remains: A Swedish Repatriation Story (Eva Maria Olsson-Barton and Lewis Nisbet Ballantine)

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    Vol. 33 (2012)

    Contents:

    Made of Stone: Impacts on Early Historic Sites in Republic County, Kansas (Jack L. Hofman)

    Arched-Ceiling Stone Caves: Early Historic Horizon Markers in the Central Plains (Jack L. Hofman and Debi L. Aaron)

    Making Sense of the Nutter Site (14CD408): A Cautionary Tale (Rose Marie Wallen)

    Archaeological Investigations of 14MO403: Report of the 2006 Kansas Archeology Training Program Field School (James L. Dougherty)

    The Eastep Site (14MY388): A Late Archaic/Woodland Period Site in Southeast Kansas (John Tomasic, Edwin J. Miller, Mark Volmut, and Andrew Wyatt)

    Geoarchaeology and Paleoenvironmental Context of the Eastep Site (Rolfe D. Mandel)

    Book Reviews

    About the Authors

    2012 Kansas Anthropological Association Members

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    Vol. 32 (2011)

    Contents:

    Building Buffalo Bird Woman’s Horticultural Tools (Joyce Thierer)

    An Analysis of Ceramics from 14SC409 (Sarah Trabert)

    Paleoindian Sites in Kansas and their Locations (Thomas G. Wyatt)

    The Phil Site (14JW48) and the Central Plains Tradition at Lovewell Reservoir, Jewell County, Kansas (Brad Logan)

    Book Reviews

    About the Authors

    2011 Kansas Anthropological Association Members

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    Vol. 31 (2010)

    Contents:

    Sterns on Winchell: An Addendum to Reynolds’ “A Reappraisal of Winchell’s Paleoliths of Kansas” (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Thomas R. Overton: Portraits from the Family Album (Marlin F. Hawley)

    The Horsethief Site and Upper Republican Adaptation along the Neal H. Lipinot, Edge of the High Plains (A. Holly Jones, Jack H. Ray, and David Byers)

    Correction

    Book Reviews

    About the Authors

    2010 Kansas Anthropological Association Members

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    Vol. 30 (2009)

    Contents:

    Rockshelter/Petroglyphs: Archeological Finds at 14LC622, A Great Bend Aspect Site in Lincoln County, Kansas (Randall M. Thies)

    T.R. Overton of 12 Mile Creek (Marlin F. Hawley)

    No Thread of Evidence—White Rock, Western Oneota, and the Kansa: Comments on “A Return to Glen Elder” by James O. Marshall (Lauren W. Ritterbush and Brad Logan)

    Archeological Survey of Scott State Park: 2009 Kansas Archeology Training Program Field School (Robert J. Hoard)

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    Vol. 29 (2008)

    Contents:

    A Reappraisal of N. H. Winchell’s Paleoliths of Kansas (John D. Reynolds)

    The Northwestern Archaeological Survey in Kansas (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Witching for Failure: Graves and Groundtruthing (Randall M. Thies)

    Analysis of a Surface Collection from 14EK301, an Early Ceramic Woodland Complex (Craig Kitchen)

    Thinking About Human Remains at the Elliott Site (Donna C. Roper)

    A Return to Glen Elder: Cultural Affiliations of Archeological Material from the Glen Elder Site (14ML1) (James O. Marshall)

    Book Reviews

    About the Authors

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    Vol. 28 (2007)

    Contents:

    Warfare Among the Kirikir'i·s: Archeology, Ethnography, and Ethnohistory (Timothy G. Baugh)

    Recent Investigations in Search of the Elusive Fort Cavagnolle, 1744-1764 (Robert L. Thompson)

    Analysis of Pottery Decorations at the Miller Site (14WY8):  A Late Kansas City Hopewell Occupation (Jeffrey Spencer)

    Site 14GE41 and the Schultz Phase: Re-Examining a Kansas Woodland Complex (Patricia J. O'Brien and Sharon G. Parks-Mandel)

    The Calf Creek Complex .in Southeast Kansas: Another Preliminary Examination (Jim D. Feagins)

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    Vol. 27 (2006)

    Contents:

    Harold Reed and the Kansas Anthropological Association (Thomas A. Witty, Jr.)

    Nomination of Harold Reed for the KAA Lifetime Achievement Award (Rose Marie Wallen)

    Smoky Hill Phase Settlement Patterns in the Salina Area (Donna C. Roper)

    Here Yesterday, Gone Today, No Tomorrow:  Modern Agricultural Destruction of Smoky Hill Phase House Mounds (Mark A. Latham)

    The Forsberg Site (14SA420): A Smokey Hill Phase Habitation Site in Central Kansas (Mark A. Latham)

    14MP407, A Great Bend Aspect Site in McPherson County, Kansas (C. Tod Bevitt)

    A Geophysical Investigation of 14MP407,a Smoky Hill Phase Archeological Site in McPherson County, Kansas (David Maki)

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    Vol. 26 (2005)

    Contents:

    A Caddoan-style Sherd from Marion County, Kansas:  Surprising Results from Compositional Analysis (Harold Reed, Robert J. Hoard, Robert J. Speakman, and Michael Glascock)

    Addendum to an Annotated Bibliography of Great Bend Aspect-Wichita Archeology and Ethnohistory (Marlin F. Hawley)

    A Demonstration of Primitive Archery for the 2006 KATP Field School (Clint Thomas)

    A Phase II Archeological Inventory Survey of Approximately 600 Acres Along Holland Creek, Dickinson County, Kansas (Christopher L. Beemer)

    Establishing Archeology at the Kansas State Historical Society:  Roscoe Hall Wilmeth, 1957-1960 (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Ceramic Period Components at the Claussen Site, 14WB322, Wabaunsee County, Kansas (Donna C. Roper)

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    Vol. 25 (2004)

    Contents:

    Solomon River Phase Habitation Site (14ML417):  Results of the 1980 KATP Field School (Mark Latham)

    Ceramic Artifacts from the Hallman Site (14HP524), A Bluff Creek Complex Site in Harper County, Kansas (Shelly Berger)

    Waterway Discoveries at the Malone Site (14RCS5) (Randall M. Thies)

    Fossil Finds and Archeological Sites Reported in Manhattan’s  Newspapers (Patricia J. O'Brien)

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    Vol. 24 (2003)

    Contents:

    “Country Far Removed from the Civilized World:'' The 2001 Kansas Archeology Training Program in Independence Creek Valley, Northeastern Kansas (Brad Logan)

    A Nebraska Phase Occupation at the Leary Site (Jessica L. Middleton)

    The 1970 Excavation at 14SA415: A Smoky Hill Phase Lodge (Donna C. Roper and Harold Reed)

    Sandstone Celts? (Harold Reed)

    Use of Geophysical and Remote Sensing Technology to Locate and Delineate Unmarked Graves in Kansas' Clay-Rich Soils (Elizabeth R. Wilson-Agin)

    Early Investigations of Archeological Sites in the Lower Walnut River Valley (Marlin F. Hawley)

    An Annotated Bibliography of Great Bend Aspect-Wichita Archeology and Ethnohistory (Marlin F. Hawley and Donald J. Blakeslee)

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    Vol. 23 (2002)

    Contents:

    The Life of Johan August Udden, Geologist, Teacher, Inventor:  Through the Kansas Years (James R. Underwood, Jr.)

    The Geologic Work of J. A. Udden (Richard C. Anderson)

    "More's the Pity": The Short Archeological Career of]. A. Udden (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Topics, Themes, and Theories in Little River Focus Archeology: Research After Udden (Susan C. Vehik)

    Memories of My Sojourn in Lindsborg (Johan A. Udden)

    List of Papers by Johan A. Udden (Marlin F. Hawley)

    An Old Indian Village (Johan A. Udden)

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    Vol. 22 (2001)

    Contents:

    Experiments in the Heat Treatment of Florence A Chert:  A Preliminary Report (John D. Reynolds, Harold Reed, and Greg Jackson)

    Cache or Trash? The Characteristics of Two Lithic Features from the Booth Site (14CM406), Comanche County, Kansas (C. Tod Bevitt)

    Hilltop Camps (Peter W. Bowman)

    The Final Conflict: Kansas Archeological Field School:  Investigation of the DB Site, 1997 (Brad Logan)

    Spatial Analyses and Test of Disturbance at the DB Site, 14LV1071 (Daniel Pugh)

    Five Smoky Hill Phase Houses in Saline and Ottawa Counties:  The Whiteford Excavations, 1934-1945 (Donna Roper)

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    Vol. 21 (2000)

    Contents:

    The Hallman Site (14HP524), Harper County, Kansas: New Light on Bluff Creek (Marie H. Huhnke)

    Further Excavations of a Life: Floyd Schultz Revisited (Marlin F. Hawley)

    Non-Mound Schultz Phase Burials from the Elliott Site, Geary County, Kansas (Donna C. Roper)

    Archeology at Hard Chief Village:  An Introductory Study of the Kansa Indian Experience in the American West, 1806-1846 (James O. Marshall)

    The Aaron Block Pipe from Northeastern Kansas (Alfred E. Johnson)

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