Frison was born in Worland in 1924 and grew up on the family ranch near Ten Sleep, which sat near notable excavation sites.
For nearly 50 years his deep curiosity in Wyoming’s natural world has guided his research, his writing, which includes 14 books and more than 100 academic articles, and his teaching.įrison’s memoirs are titled Rancher Archaeologist and his life was a combination of those vocations. The Wyoming Legislature created the position in 1967 and Frison, who had recently received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan, returned to his native state to take on the role. George Frison was Wyoming’s first state archeologist. How did people who were armed only with weapons of stone, antler, ivory, wood and sinew successfully hunt such beasts.Dr. They were the prey and staff of life for pedestrian hunters in the American West, 10,000 years or more before Coronado reintroduced another large ungulate: the horse, which had become extinct on the Plains at the end of the Ice Age despite the fact that it was not hunted by Paleoindians. These mammals are icons of the Paleoindian period: woolly mammoths, giant ancestral species of bison, mountain sheep, pronghorn, elk and deer. His excavations of the Glenrock, Casper, Agate Basin, Carter-McGee and Mill Iron sites, and many others, have usually involved the recovery of the bones of big (or "mega") game alongside stone projectile points believed to have been used by hunters who managed to survive in the last Ice Age environments of North America. National Academy of Sciences, Frison has, after a long life full of vicissitudes, become the unquestioned dean of Paleoindian specialists on the Great Plains. His fascinating and instructive new book, Survival by Hunting, is part personal memoir, part overview of Paleoindian adaptations, and part guide to the hunting of Pleistocene and Holocene mammals on the High Plains and in the Rocky Mountains.Ĭhild of the Great Depression, rancher, hunter and member of the U.S.
George Frison is an original of American archaeology, a towering figure in the field of Plains prehistory. Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey.
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