Assigned Session: FS 3.232: Highland–lowland connections and interactions
Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Highland-Lowland Interaction in the Rocky Mountains, USA
Abstract ID: 3.9701 | Accepted as Talk | Talk/Oral | TBA | TBA
Bonnie Pitblado (0)
Powell, Noah (1)
Bonnie Pitblado ((0) University of Oklahoma, 455 W Lindsey St., 73019, Norman, Oklahoma, US)
Powell, Noah (1)
(0) University of Oklahoma, 455 W Lindsey St., 73019, Norman, Oklahoma, US
(1) University of Oklahoma, 455 W Lindsey St., Norman, OK 73019, USA
(1) University of Oklahoma, 455 W Lindsey St., Norman, OK 73019, USA
In many of the world’s mountain ranges, it would have been impossible for any very ancient human group to have occupied only the “high country,” if one defines the “high country” as those reaches of the mountains that are ice and/or snow-covered year-round. And yet, at least in the USA’s Rocky Mountains, people did access those very high mountain reaches just as soon as waning Pleistocene conditions allowed them to do so. In this presentation, we overview the material evidence for Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene use of both highland and lowland Rocky Mountain settings, emphasizing the material evidence for the very earliest incursions into the high country. Fully understanding that evidence, we believe, requires good doses of both art and science: Science to geochemically track the movements of stone and those who quarried and carried it in and around Rocky Mountain landscapes; art to come closer to grasping the non-economic motivations that may have drawn the continent’s first people to its highest points in the first place.
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