This important volume explores the early hunters and gatherers who populated Colorado’s Middle Park, a natural basin high in the Rocky Mountains. At the end of the last Ice Age some 13,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers moved into this harsh mountain setting, an environment that demanded unique adaptive strategies. These people mastered the severe mountain climate, developing serviceable shelters and clothing as well as food supplies. They left behind a rich archaeological record, including shelters, tools, and food residues including bison bones.
The author Marcel Kornfeld is an archaeologist at the University of Wyoming who has spent 40 years researching the early people of the Rocky Mountains. This volume is written for both the general public and professional archaeologists. It is an important contribution to a growing body of work that continues to illuminate the lives of the first Americans.
