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A Re-Evaluation of the Oxbow Dam Site (DhMn-1): Middle Holocene Cultural Continuity on the Northern Plains

Volume 5, 2005

Soft Cover
142 pages 
ISBN 978-0-9691030-6-9 

Price: $10
Written by D’Arcy Clarke Green

This thesis re-examines research conducted at the Oxbow Dam site (DhMn-1) in southeastern Saskatchewan in 1956, and new data collected in 1995/1996. The original material recovered was instrumental in defining the Oxbow cultural complex of the Northern Plains.  Research carried out between 1960-90s suggested that the assemblage did not fit directly into the complex, but instead, represented a transitional period from antecedent Mummy Cave  into an early example of Oxbow.  The recent fieldwork results indicate that the site actually has multicomponents and that the Oxbow material is from a relatively late campsite from this complex.