Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology: From the Dent Site to the Rocky Mountains

Acknowledgments

xvii We see this book as in no small part a tribute to our many friends and colleagues who have contributed both to the success of this volume and to Colorado archaeology . Bob expresses special gratitude to Bill Butler, Jim Benedict, Jim Doerner, Darrin Pratt, and Frank Rupp at the academic end of the spectrum. At the personal end, he thanks his wife, Becky, for putting up with an absent (mentally and physically) husband in pursuit of his passion. Bonnie acknowledges the contributors to this volume for their patience with the editing process and her anthropology colleagues and students at Utah State University for indulging her many moments spent formatting (yet again) errant marginsandnonconformingcitations.Bonniealsothanksfortheirindulgenceher wonderful family: loving husband, Joe; four-year-old son Ethan (okay, so patience wasn’t really his forte, but his cheerful spirit works wonders on cloudy days); and A c k n o wledgme n t s xviii her “Renaissance Man” stepson Derek. Finally, Bonnie tips her hat to the Rocky Mountain archaeologists who have inspired her the most: Jim Benedict, George Frison, and as we emphasize below, Wil Husted. Both Bob and Bonnie thank the two anonymous reviewers who helped make this last iteration of our book the best possible iteration. Their many concrete suggestions were enormously helpful. We wish to particularly recognize and thank our colleague Wil Husted, who blazed the trail for us and for mountain archaeologists in Colorado and the rest of the Rockies. From your master’s thesis in Rocky Mountain National Park to the Mountain Branch of the Western Macrotradition, you started something special, Wil, and you inspired a whole lot of us along the way. Finally, we would like to acknowledge Eric Carlson’s very fine artwork for our book cover and chapter title illustrations. For possibly the first time, that art depicts the interactive roles of Paleoindian men and women many millennia ago. Acknowledgments Frontiers in Colorado Paleoindian Archaeology This page intentionally left blank ...