Comment on “Clovis and Western Stemmed: Population Migration and the Meeting of Two Technologies in the Intermountain West” by Charlotte Beck and George T. Jones

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 376-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart J. Fiedel ◽  
Juliet E. Morrow
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Population Migration ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Fluted Points

AbstractBeck and Jones (2010) assert that Clovis “was not first in the Intermountain West”; Western Stemmed points are older than fluted points; and the stemmed point makers derived from a hypothetical pre-13,000 cal B.P. Pacific Coast migration. A less tendentious review of the data suggests instead that Western Stemmed follows Clovis in this region, as previously inferred by Willig and Aikens.

Clovis and Western Stemmed again: Reply to Fiedel and Morrow

2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Beck ◽  
George T. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Supporting Evidence ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
The South ◽  
Southern Plains ◽  
Technological Differences ◽  
The Pacific

AbstractFiedel and Morrow challenge our argument that Clovis technology originated in the southern Plains or Southeast and from there was carried by populations migrating north. Upon entering the Intermountain West relatively late, they encountered a population utilizing a different technology (Western Stemmed), the latter having arrived independently from the Pacific coast. Fiedel and Morrow offer arguments in favor of Clovis-first in the Intermountain West and coastal California and against the coastal route, Clovis origins in the south, and technological differences between Clovis and Western Stemmed. We evaluate these arguments and find their supporting evidence, when provided, meager and unconvincing.

When the Pound Sterling Went West: British Investments and the American Mineral Frontier

1956 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clark C. Spence
Keyword(s):  
American West ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Queen Victoria ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The World

The period between 1860 and the death of Queen Victoria in 1901 saw the pound sterling moving into even the most isolated corners of the world, seeking, amoeba-like, to reproduce itself with a minimum of effort. Among other areas to feel its impact and to reap its benefits was the American West, particularly the mineral frontier. Records of the Board of Trade indicate that during these forty-one years at least 518 British joint-stock companies were incorporated, with a total nominal capitalization of not less than £77,705,751, to engage in mining and milling activities in the intermountain West, exclusive of the Pacific Coast.

The Philological Association of The Pacific Coast

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1373-1374
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
The Pacific

The thirty-seventh annual meeting of the Philological Association of the Pacific Coast was held at Stanford University, California, on November 29 and 30, 1935.

Psilocybe allenii - a new bluing species from the Pacific Coast, USA.

2012 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Borovička ◽  
Alan Rockefeller ◽  
Peter G. Werner
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Coast ◽  
The Pacific

Archibald Menzies (1754–1842), an early botanist on the northwestern seaboard of North America, 1792–1794, with further notes on his life and work

2001 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
ERIC W. GROVES
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Pacific Coast ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Short Biography

ABSTRACT: This paper includes a short biography of Menzies and an outline of the historical events on the northwest Pacific coast leading up to Vancouver's voyage. A table listing the botanical visitors to that area prior to 1792 is given followed by a résumé of the evolution of Menzies's journal. Sources used in compiling the chronology of his movements during Vancouver's voyage are then set down, ending the section with an account of Menzies's own visit, 1792–1794. His method of plant collecting is discussed along with an account of his collections and their subsequent disposal. The paper concludes with details of Menzies's later life, his connection with other botanists of the day, and an assessment of his achievements.

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