A Late Archaic Skeleton From The Northeastern Colorado High Plains

Research results on a partial burial, dated to northeastern Colorado's Late Plains Archaic cultural period, are presented. The remains, although not recovered by professional archaeologists, yielded considerable detail on the inividual'sosteologica, health, and dietary history. Reconstruction of the burial's ongmal context allowed inferences on regional Late Archaic paleoenvironment and South Platte River Valley geoarchaeology. Stable carbon isotope analysis was done to test current archaeological data for the Colorado High Plain's region, which suggest the Late Archaic presence of domesticcultigens.