The following is a compendium of published articles pertinent to the prehistory and past environments of the Dempsey Divide. Each title is a link - double click on it to read the article. A few of the more recent articles that were still available to us on disc will open directly as HTML files. The rest have been scanned from paper copies into downloadable Adobe PDF files. You’ll need a copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader to open them, and you can get a free copy by following the link through the below graphic.  The information for proper citation of each article will be found on its first page. Please note that many of the titles have been abbreviated or rephrased in the links below. The actual title as shown on the first page of the article should be used in any citation.

 

 

 

 

 1) Lake Creek, a Plains Woodland site in the Texas Panhandle(Hughes 1962)

 2) The Goodwin-Baker site, 34RM14, a Wheeler phase village (Swenson 1983)

 3) Preliminary report on the archeology of the Thurmond Ranch  (Thurmond & Moore 1985)

 4) Late Archaic/Woodland site 34RM501, Swift Horse  (Briscoe & Burkhalter 1986)

 5) Custer phase site 34RM492, Linville II  (Drass & Moore 1987)

 6) Fossiliferous shale as a prehistoric ceramic temper in Roger Mills County  (Moore 1988)

 7) Beaver Dam site, 34RM208, OAS Spring 1988 field school announcement  (Thurmond 1988)

 8) Update on investigations at 34RM208, the Beaver Dam site  (Thurmond 1988)

 9) The 1988 OAS Fall Dig at 34RM208, the Beaver Dam site  (Thurmond 1988)

10) Scenes at the OAS 1988 Fall Dig. 34RM208, the Beaver Dam site  (Wyckoff 1988)

11) The Swift Horse site, 34RM501, and the Lake Creek complex  (Briscoe 1989)

12) Terminal Archaic bison kills in the Texas Panhandle  (Hughes 1989)

13) Additional dates from the Twilla bison kill site, Hall County, Texas  (Lintz et al. 1989)

14) Crosby County lunate stone burial  (Redding & Parker 1989)

15) An AMS date from Late Archaic site 34RM334C on the Dempsey Divide  (Thurmond 1989)

16) Late Archaic lunate stone burial at 34RM208, the Beaver Dam site  (Thurmond 1989)

17) Ancient beaver ponds in New Mexico and Oklahoma  (Dalquest, Stangl & Kocurko 1990)

18) Late Paleoindian utilization of the Dempsey Divide  (Thurmond 1990)

19) The Sullivan-Carpenter burials, 34RM668: evidence of Late Archaic conflict (Gettys 1991)

20) Archeology of the Dempsey Divide, a Late Archaic/Woodland hotspot  (Thurmond 1991)

21) Late Paleoindian site 34RM602B on the Dempsey Divide (Thurmond 1991)

22) The Certain bison kill site, Beckham County  (Bement 1992)

23) Archaic cultural manifestations on the Southern Plains  (Wyckoff 1992)

24) Radiocarbon dates for 34RM668  (Gettys 1993)

25) The Certain site Part 2: 1993 OU field school  (Bement & Buehler 1993)

26) Tertiary camel skull from Roger Mills County  (Kirkland 1993)

27) Some brief reflections on Roger Mills County rainfall since 1950  (Thurmond 1993)

28) Gravel sources of knappable Alibates silicified dolomite  (Wyckoff 1993)

29) Late Archaic bison kill 34BK46, the Certain site  (Bement & Buehler 1994)

30) Some surprising dune dates on the Washita: Trammel Dune  (Thurmond & Wyckoff 1994)

31) Recent collections from Late Paleoindian sites on the Dempsey Divide  (Thurmond 1995)

32) 34RM602B, artifact collection of September 1995  (Thurmond 1995)

33) The 1995 OU archeology field school at the Certain site  (Bement 1995)

34) A dated Late Holocene valley fill sequence: Plum Creek #1  (Thurmond & Wyckoff 1995)

35) What the devil is going on with the weather out here?  (Thurmond 1996)

36) Dated soils from the Olson dune field  (Thurmond & Wyckoff 1996)

37) Late Archaic bison kills of the Southern Plains  (Buehler 1997)

38) The Wheeler phase, AD 1450-1700  (Drass & Baugh 1997)

39) Late Woodland campsite 34RM773 on the Dempsey Divide (Thurmond & Batchelor 1997)

40) Fossil proboscideans in Oklahoma  (Wyckoff & Czaplewski 1997)

41) The Paleontology of Southern Plains bison  (Wyckoff & Dalquest 1997)

42) Sanders site, 41HL128, a Late Archaic bison processing event  (Quigg 1998)

43) Late Pleistocene dunes along the Dempsey Divide  (Thurmond & Wyckoff 1998)

44) Late Woodland site 34RM451 on the Dempsey Divide (Thurmond, Wyckoff & Batchelor 1998)

45) The Hidden Virtues of Ogallala Quartzite  (Hurst & Rebnegger 1999)

46) Late Paleoindian Land Use at Goff Creek and Nall Playa  (Ballenger 1999)

47) Downpours on the rise right here in River City (Thurmond & Thurmond 1999)

48) The Calf Creek horizon in northwestern Oklahoma  (Thurmond & Wyckoff 1999)

49) The Redbed Plains variant, AD 800-1450  (Drass 1999)

50) Late Prehistoric campsite 34RM448 on the Dempsey Divide (Thurmond & Picarella 1999)

51) Bison, Nuts, and the Dempsey Divide  (Bement & Buehler 2000)

52) Calibration of the dates from Swift Horse, 34RM501  (Thurmond, Kraft & Wyckoff 2000)

53) Wild Horse Creek #1, a Miocene fossil assemblage  (Czaplewski, Thurmond & Wyckoff 2001)

54) The Rain on the Plains: Feast or Famine  (Thurmond & Thurmond 2001)

55) Ethnobotany of the Dempsey Divide (Thurmond et al.2002)

56) What Exactly is the Zimm's Complex? (Brosowske 2002, see page 20)

57) Vascular Flora of the Ogallala Ecotone (Freeman, Morse & Thurmond, 2003)

58) A Late Prehistoric stone elbow pipe from Roger Mills County (Thurmond & Thurmond 2003, see page 12)