Publication: Plains Anthropologist
Author: Lawrence Loendorf, Lukas Wacker, & Marvin Rowe
Date of Publication: 2018
PDF File: Loendorf-et-al.-2018-Radiocarbon-dating-a-pictograph-at-Medicine-Lodge-.pdf
URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00320447.2017.1394035
Description
Wyoming State Parks recovered a large chunk of the Medicine Lodge Creek Archaeological Site cliff wall, which had fallen away, with rock paintings on it. A sample from one of the paintings was dated to 800 BP with the Plasma Oxidation dating method. Comparison to regional sites suggests the dated painting is part of the Foothills Abstract tradition or a variant of the Columbia Plateau tradition.