News – Collecting adornment from Woming ancestral US site

In the River Band, Woming, 1970, 1970, archaeologists conducted the operation of salvation before construction, which discovered an important American site near the North Plate in Kasper, Woming. However, most of the material from the river turning point, officially known as 48NA202, was lost or scattered in the last five decades and never fully studied. Science News Today About reports that researchers have recently collected samples from the site and re -energized them, which revealed that it features an important time in local American history that removes the periods before and after the European contacts. This site is especially unusual for more than 5,000 adornment samples that were found. It is the largest adornment in the state ever. Things, made of bone, stone, lion, metal, shell and antler, represent indigenous traditions, but also represent new technologies and changing styles. For the indigenous people of the plains, personal adornments were much more than decoration. They brought identity, status, family relations, spiritual beliefs and individual achievements. The team was surprised to find European origin, such as metal AWLs, which would gradually replace local tools made of bone or stone. “We have never seen such a height on other sites for the same time,” said Spencer Pelton, a Woming State archaeologist. “But it seems that they are among the first types of metal tools that appear in early contact locations.” Experts believe that the area was affiliated with the eastern Shoshon people and was settled between 1700 and 1725. To read about tools used to sew cold weather clothing 13,000 years ago in high plains of Woming, go to the “Ice Age Sui Work”.