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On a warm afternoon in May 2000, I was walking along Mill Creek in Wabaunsee County inspecting soils and sediment exposed in a steep stream bank that stands about thirty feet above the creek. It is a common routine for me. Most of my research involves reconstructing the geology, paleoecology, and archaeology of stream valleys, so I look for places where creeks and rivers have cut into their own deposits. These cutbanks are my “windows” into the past.
Claussen, archaeology, archaeological, prehistory, Wabunsee County, paleoecology, geology, cutbanks, sediment, Mill Creek, Middle Ceramic period, hunter-gatheres, Kansas, floodplain, radiocarbon, dating, Paleoindian, Kansas Anthropological Association, anthropology, Dalton Period, dalton, KU Anthropology Department, prehistoric