Paleoindian Period: Learn More!

Vanessa N. Hanvey & Karen Stevens
Kentucky Heritage Council

This year’s Kentucky Archaeology Month Poster highlights the Paleoindian Period in Kentucky. Would you like to learn more about the people who lived here during that time?

Check out these resources:

• Kenneth Tankersley’s “Ice Age Hunters and Gatherers” in Kentucky Archaeology
• Greg Maggard & Kary Stackelbeck’s chapter on the Paleoindian Period in The Archaeology of Kentucky: An Update
• Paleoindian and Archaic Research in Kentucky edited by Charles Hockensmith, David Pollack, & Thomas Sanders [Coming online soon!]
• National Park Service’s Archaeology of Mammoth Cave
• Kentucky Heritage Council’s Kentucky Prehistoric Archaeology
• Jack Ray’s Paleoindian Points from the Upper Rolling Fork and Beech Fork Drainage Basins in Central Kentucky [pages 1-36]
• Leone Lane and other’s Early Paleoindian and Eastern US Rockshelters: Findings and Implications of Test Excavations at Wolfe Shelter (15Cu21) [pages 1-22]

For more information about the Paleoindian Period in North America:

• David Anderson’s Recent Advances in Paleoindian and Archaic Period Research in the Southeastern United States
• University of Tennessee’s Paleoindian Database of the Americas
• Texas Beyond History’s Earliest Peoples
• Nova’s The First Face of America
• Time Team America’s Paleoindian Tool Timeline
• Time Team America’s The Bones of Badger Hole

Have a resource you would like to add? Contact karen.stevens@ky.gov.