Paleoindian Perambulations and the Harman Cache

The Harman cache is a collection of Cody-era artifacts found in south-central Nebraska in the 1930s. The collection includes finished Cody projectile points and a large number of projectile point preforms made from raw materials originating in widely dispersed areas. At least one, and possibly two, of the bifaces in the cache resemble Hell Gap preforms. The range of materials and the kinds of artifacts in the cache are consistent with other post-Clovis Paleoindian caches. The Harman cache underscores the predictability of Paleoindian use of the landscape and important problems with widespread approaches to reconstructing the geographic scale of Paleoindian movement.