Late Paleoindian Land Use In The Oklahoma Panhandle: Goff Creek And Nail Playa

Abstract

Late to terminal Paleoindian populations are well represented in surface collections from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Themost prominent complexes are Plainview and Frederick-Allen. These groups ‘ remains from Goff Creek and the Nall site arecompared in terms of raw material use, tool maintenance, and breakage patterns. This information is presented within a framework of early Holocene land use and changing environmental conditions in the region. Plainview and Frederick-Allen populations seem to have used the landscape quite similarly, but Frederick-Allen groups were perhaps spending less residential time on the playa lakes and drainages of the southern High Plains

Key Words:

• Late Paleoindian
• Plainview
• Frederick-Allen
• land-use
• lithic analysis