Bøger af Wm Jack Hranicky

This is a 500-page book that covers the entire range of stone tools in Virginia. It starts with the PaleoAmerican era to the Woodland period. There are 2000+ photographs, descriptions, dates, references, and index. It provides the basic stone tool prehistory of Virginia and surrounding areas. It presents an excellent look-up book for stone prehistoric tools in the Middle Atlantic area. It is an excellent look-up book for all prehistoric tools. It is B&W but a color CD can be ordered.

This book is a study of prehistoric artifacts found in the middle Potomac River valley of Virginia and Maryland. It covers archaeological methods and discoveries, museum, and private collections. It has an overview of the chronology for prehistory.

Revised - This 350+ -page publication contains over 1250 Clovis points from Virginia. Text has descriptions, photos, drawing, prehistory, and general information for Clovis in Virginia. It offers a complete paleo prehistory for anyone interested in the topic. Now - Williamson paleosite material. Topics: what is a Clovis point, lithic materials, distributions, chronologies, types, point statistics, classic and true Clovis points, classification methods, Clovis position in prehistory, basic point matrices, point examples, Clovis structure and axes, recording methods, regional survey methods, paleo sites, and basic typology.

This full-color publication is a report on the PaleoAmerican Pleistocene site in Clarke County, Virginia. The site was a jasper and chalcedony occupation on a west terrace of the Shenandoah River. Report provides analytical data and photographs of nearly 80 artifacts recovered from the site. These artifacts were surface finds by the landowner. This study contains comparative artifacts from the eastern U.S. as well as from Europe. The basic premise is the site's ancestry is the Old World. While the site will be preserved for the future, four test pits were dug in cardinal directions. The site is a camp site for hunting and gatherering as little manufacturing evidence was found. The site has no date other than being in the Pleistocene era of the valley.

This publication covers the archaeological investigation stone circles in Clarke County, Virginia. These circles line up with the solstices and equinox points on the horizon. The site has ceremonial area, produced artifacts, and was used during the paleo-era. It is classified as a PaleoAmerican era site. Topics: rockart, glyphs, Pleistocene, Paleoindian, stone circles, solstice clocks, lithic tools, artforms dates, hand glyphs, ceremonial rings, solar observatories, social ceremonies, jasper usage, site date, site climate, site pointes, stone stacks, stone mounds, handprints, ceremonial altars, equinox ceremonies, knapping schedules, and jasper artifacts.

This publication is a summary of the wide variety of artforms and works at the Arkfeld site in Virginia. The site dates to the Pleistocene. It also has a wide variety of lithic tools that correspond to the Upper Paleolithic of Europe. The site is basically a limestone quarry site.

This publication presents the basics of Virginia projectile points. It has descriptions, illustrations, drawings, distributions, and presents an overview of Virginia prehistory. The book can be used to identify most arrowheads found in the state and surrounding states. There are over 100 point types in the book. It can be used as a guide to artifacts you find. It provides information for neighboring states, also. Topics: Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland projectile points, dates, references, photographs, drawings, point descriptions, distributions, and point classifications.

This is a 500 -page black-and-white listing of over 2000 projectile point types in the U.S. It contains 1000+ photographs, description, time periods, and references. It makes a great "look-up" book for arrowheads. It is the most complete sources for arrowheads ever published. It is arranged from "A" to "Z" and contains listings for comparative point types. The archaeology goes from Paleoindian to the European Contact - 13,000 years.

This 300-page site report presents extensive surface-collected artifacts, site testing, and limited excavations on the Arkfeld site in Virginia which offers an insight to the Pleistocene occupation in Virginia and the U.S. The report illustrates and discusses main site areas all of which is called Arkfeld paleosite in Frederick and Clarke Counties, Virginia. It is essentially a quarry tool production area which produced a distinctive toolset. While stone quarrying is the basic focus, clay mining, bitumen coating, and stone figurine production are also the result of the site's investigation and study. The site represents the first known site in the Western Hemisphere of Pleistocene era that has firing of clay. The site's artifacts and processes indicate an Old World legacy from the Paleolithic era. The site has tools forms that are unreported in the eastern U.S. Numerous tool classes are legacy tools for Clovis. The book also discusses lanceolate points. It is classified as a PaleoAmerican site.

North American Bipoints is a survey of bipoints found in North America. The book contains over two thousand specimens from over thirty-five states, Mexico, and Canada. It is over five hundred pages, 8 ¿ x 11 inches, and is printed in black and white. The bipoint is argued as the longest continuously made artifact, starting in the Pleistocene and continuing to contact. There are bipoint photographs with their data and maps, lithics, and charts showing the bipoints in American prehistory. The author is a professional archaeologist with over fifty years of experience in analyzing and publishing artifacts. The resharpened bipoint is the most overlooked artifact in archaeology. Numerous examples are explained and illustrated with their metrics. The book explains-with drawings, photographs, etc.-how to analyze and identify most Pleistocene artifacts. The bipoint's legacy from the Old World is argued. A brief worldwide summary is offered, starting with the seventy-five-thousand-year Blombos Cave bipoint in South Africa. The most famous bipoint, called the Cinmar bipoint, is illustrated. This publication argues that the bipoint is as common as America's arrowheads-all lying on the ground, remaining to be found and identified archaeologically.