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According to Wikipedia, George Carr Frison was an American archaeologist. He received the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Paleoarchaeologist of the Century Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was Wyoming’s first State Archaeologist, and was a founder of the University of Wyoming Anthropology Department. He died in September 2020 at the age of 95.

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Prehistoric hunters of the High Plains (1978) (565)
A Functional Analysis of Certain Chipped Stone Tools (1968) (203)
The Colby Mammoth Site: Taphonomy and Archaeology of a Clovis Kill in Northern Wyoming (1986) (177)
Experimental Use of Clovis Weaponry and Tools on African Elephants (1989) (177)
The Casper site : a Hell Gap bison kill on the high plains (1974) (171)
Fluting of Folsom Points. In the Agate Basin Site: a Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains (1982) (154)
The Vore Site, 48CK302, A Stratified Buffalo Jump in the Wyoming Black Hills (1980) (120)
Folsom Tools and Technology at the Hanson Site, Wyoming (1980) (111)
Fossil Bison and Artifacts From an Early Altithermal Period Arroyo Trap in Wyoming (1976) (109)
Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey (2004) (107)
The Horner Site: the Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex (1987) (76)
Paleoindian large mammal hunters on the plains of North America. (1998) (70)
Projectile points and Specialized Bifaces from the Horner Site (1987) (66)
The Carter/Kerr-McGee Paleoindian Site: Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research (1984) (61)
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies (2010) (60)
SHOSHONEAN ANTELOPE PROCUREMENT IN THE UPPER GREEN RIVER BASIN, WYOMING (1971) (60)
Digging for the color of life: Paleoindian red ochre mining at the Powars II site, Platte County, Wyoming, U.S.A. (2003) (56)
Studies On Amerindian Dogs, 3: Prehistoric Wolf / Dog Hybrids from the Northwestern Plains (1982) (50)
The Mill Iron site (1999) (45)
Bone Projectile Points: An Addition to the Folsom Cultural Complex (1980) (43)
Appendix I: Age Determination of Buffalo by Teeth Eruption and Wear (1970) (42)
A Late Paleoindian Animal Trapping Net from Northern Wyoming (1986) (41)
Paleoindian Occupation of the High Country:The Case of Middle Park, Colorado (2000) (41)
The Buffalo Pound in North-Western Plains Prehistory: Site 48 CA 302, Wyoming (1971) (36)
Paleoclimate and Amerindians: Evidence from stable isotopes and atmospheric circulation (2001) (35)
Shallow site archaeology: Artifact dispersal, stratigraphy, and radiocarbon dating at the Barger Gulch locality B Folsom Site, Middle Park, Colorado (2005) (33)
The Glenrock Buffalo Jump, 48C0304: Late Prehistoric Period Buffalo Procurement and Butchering (1970) (33)
They Have a Rock That Bleeds: Sunrise Red Ochre and its Early Paleoindian Occurrence at the Hell Gap Site, Wyoming (1995) (33)
Glenrock Buffalo Jump, 48CO304: Late Prehistoric Period Buffalo Procurement and Butchering. (Reprinted From Plains Anthropologist Memoir 7, 1970 (Part 1 of 2) (1972) (30)
The Kobold Site, 24BH406: A Post-Althithermal Record of Buffalo-Jumping for The Northwestern Plains (1970) (27)
Age Determination of Buffalo By Teeth Eruption and Wear. In the Glenrock Buffalo Jump, 48CO304 (1970) (26)
Animal Population Studies and Cultural Inference (1978) (26)
FURTHER INSIGHTS INTO PALEOINDIAN USE OF THE POWARS II RED OCHER QUARRY (48PL330), WYOMING (2018) (25)
Paleoindian bison procurement and paleoenvironments in Middle Park of Colorado (1999) (25)
Prehistoric, Plains-Mountain, Large-Mammal, Communal Hunting Strategies (1987) (24)
The Sheaman Site: A Clovis Component (1982) (24)
Stone Tool Caching On the North American Plains: Implications of the McKean Site Tool Kit (1990) (23)
Cultural and landscape change during the middle Holocene, Rocky Mountain area, Wyoming and Montana (1995) (23)
The Wardell buffalo trap 48 SU 301: communal procurement in the upper Green River basin, Wyoming (1973) (22)
10,000 Years in the Rocky Mountains: The Helen Lookingbill Site (2001) (22)
List of Errata for the Vore Site, 48 CK 302, A Stratified Buffalo Jump in the Wyoming Black Hills (1980) (18)
Spring Creek Cave, Wyoming (1965) (18)
Observations on the use of stone tools: dulling of working edges of some chipped stone tools in bison butchering (1979) (17)
Site 48SH312: An Early Middle Period Bison Kill In the Powder River Basin of Wyoming (1968) (17)
Pryor Stemmed, a Specialized Paleoindian Ecological Adaptation (1980) (16)
Paleo-Indian Procurement of Camelops on the Northwestern Plains (1978) (16)
Cultural Activity Associated with Prehistoric Mammoth Butchering and Processing (1976) (16)
Man's Interaction with Holocene Environments on the Plains (1975) (16)
Neutron Activation Analysis of Obsidian: An Example of Its Relevance to Northwestern Plains Archaeology (1968) (16)
Dead Indian Creek Site: An Archaic Occupation In the Absaroka Mountains of Northwest Wyoming (1984) (16)
Paleoindian environmental change and landscape response in Barger Gulch, Middle Park, Colorado (2005) (15)
Confirming a Cultural Association at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming (2020) (14)
Excavation and Documentation of the Princeton and Smithsonian Horner Site Assemblages (1987) (14)
The Tool Assemblage, Unfinished Bifaces, and Stone Flaking Material Sources for the Horner Site (1987) (14)
Soil Evidence for Postglacial Forest-Grassland Fluctuation in the Absaroka Mountains of Northwestern Wyoming, U.S.A. (1988) (14)
Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies: Third Edition (2010) (13)
Early Period Marginal Cultural Groups In Northern Wyoming (1973) (12)
The Fenn Cache: Clovis Weapons & Tools (1999) (12)
Bone, Antler, and Ivory Artifacts and Manufacture Technology. In the Agate Basin Site: a Record of the Paleoindian Occupation of the Northwestern High Plains (1982) (12)
North American High Plains Paleo-Indian Hunting Strategies and Weaponry Assemblages (1993) (11)
Prehistoric Mountain Sheep Hunting In the Rocky Mountains of North America. In Hunters of the Recent Past, Edited By L. B. Davis and B. O. K. Reeves (1990) (11)
Big Goose Creek Site: Bison Procurement and Faunal Analysis (1978) (11)
Crow Pottery in Northern Wyoming (1976) (11)
Leigh Cave, Wyoming, Site 48WA304 (1968) (10)
Daugherty Cave, Wyoming (1968) (10)
Wedding of the Waters Cave: a Stratified Site In the Big Horn Basin of Northern Wyoming (1962) (10)
The Pleistocene—Holocene Transition on the Plains and Rocky Mountains of North America (1996) (10)
The late Pleistocene mammalian fauna from the Colby Mammoth Kill site, Wyoming (1980) (10)
Stone Circles, Stone-Filled Fire Pits, Grinding Stones and High Plains Archaeology. In From Microcosm To Macrocosm: Advances In Tipi Ring Investigation and Interpretation (1983) (9)
APPENDIX 6 – The Larson Cache (1987) (9)
Fluting Folsom Projectile Points: Archeological Evidence (1981) (9)
Paleoindian portable art from Wyoming, USA (2010) (9)
Lookingbill Site, Wyoming 48FR308 (1983) (8)
Coiled Basketry From Northern Wyoming (1986) (8)
Rockshelter Archaeology and Geoarchaeology in the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (2005) (8)
New geochronological and archaeological data for the Sheaman Clovis site, eastern Wyoming, U.S.A. (2004) (8)
Finley Site Bison Bone, In the Horner Site, the Type Site of the Cody Cultural Complex, Edited By George C. Frison and Lawrence Todd (1987) (8)
The North American Paleoindian: a Wealth of new Data but Still Much to Learna (1993) (8)
Observations on Pronghorn Behavior and Taphonomic Analysis of Bonebeds: Implications for Analysis of the Eden-Farson Pronghorn Kill (2000) (7)
The Agate Basin Site (2014) (7)
Bison Dentition Studies (1982) (7)
Paleoindian Flaked Stone Technology on the Plains and in the Rockies (2016) (7)
APPENDIX 7 – The Finley Site Bison Bone (1987) (7)
Sources of Steatite and Methods of Prehistoric Procurement and Use In Wyoming (1982) (7)
The University of Wyoming Investigations at the Horner Site (1987) (6)
Archeological and Bioarcheological Resources of the Northern Plains (1996) (6)
CARVED STEATITE AND SANDSTONE TUBES: PIPES FOR SMOKING OR SHAMAN'S PARAPHERNALIA (1993) (5)
Agate Basin Components (1982) (5)
The ancient Californians: Rancholabrean hunters of the mojave lakes country: Edited by Emma Lou Davis. 1978. Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, Science Series 29 (1979) (5)
Site Structure and Zooarchaeology at the Boar’s Tusk Site, Wyoming (2000) (5)
ARCHEOLOGY: Archeological Investigations in the Robert Lee Reservoir Basin, West Central Texas. Harry J. Shafer. Papers of the Texas Archeological Salvage Project, 17 (1970) (5)
Multi-component Paleoindian surface sites in the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming (2015) (4)
The Wind River Canyon Burial and Cache: 48Ho10 (1985) (4)
Full-Aeroelastic Model of CAARC Building: Iterative Design Procedure and Wind Tunnel Tests (2018) (4)
Hunting Strategies, Prey Behavior and Mortality Data (2019) (3)
The Crow Indian Occupation of the High Plains: The Archaeological Evidence (1979) (3)
The 2000 Field Season at Barger Gulch Locality B, Middle Park, Colorado (Technical Report No. 19C) (2001) (3)
Rancher Archaeologist: A Career in Two Different Worlds (2014) (3)
Folsom and Other Paleoindian Artifacts in the Missouri River Valley, North Dakota (2021) (3)
Introduction To Bighorn Basin Archaeology (1975) (3)
Keyhole Reservoir Archaeology: Glimpses of the Past from Northeast Wyoming (1995) (3)
A Preliminary Report on Two Sites at Piney Creek, Wyoming 48J03Ll and 48J031 (1965) (2)
Research on the water requirements of poplars in the nursery irrigated by sprinklers. (1982) (2)
In situ evidence for Paleoindian hematite quarrying at the Powars II site (48PL330), Wyoming (2022) (2)
Poplar cultivation in the hilly zone of Monferrato: technical and economic aspects. (1994) (2)
North American Paleoindian: a Wealth of New Data but Still Much To Learn. In Prehistory and Human Ecology of the Western Plains, Edited By Joseph A. Tiffany (1993) (2)
Avonlea and Contemporaries In Wyoming. In Avonlea Yesterday and Today: Archaeology and Prehistory (1988) (1)
11 – Summary and Concluding Remarks (1987) (1)
Influence of length of cuttings on their rooting ability and on the growth of young poplars in nurseries. (1984) (1)
Middle Plains Archaic Bison Hunting in Southcentral Wyoming: Revisiting the Scoggin Site (48CR304) (2017) (1)
The 1995 Plains Anthropological Society Distinguished Service Award (1996) (1)
Caching In On Stores: the Expedient Use of Curated Tools (1990) (1)
Geoarchaeological Research and Archaeological Research In the Jackson Lake Reservoir Pool Area, 1987 (1988) (1)
Composite, Reflexed, Mountain Sheep Horn Bow From Western Wyoming (1980) (1)
The Archeology of the Wind River Basin (1978) (1)
Age and Chronology of Rock Art In Northwestern Wyoming and Implications For It's Changing Role In Shamanism (1990) (1)
Probable Paleoindian Flint Knapping Kit From the Medicine Lodge Creek Site, 48BH499, Wyoming (1982) (0)
Li Near Arrangements of Cairns In Wyoming and Montana. In Megaliths To Medicine Wheels: Boulder Structures In Archaeology (1981) (0)
7. Hunting Deer, Elk, and Other Creatures (2019) (0)
Mammoth Bone from Hell Gap (2015) (0)
Letter Report: An Archeological Survey On Section 33, T.23N., R.81W., North of Hanna, Wyoming (1975) (0)
Proposal To Establish a Chronology By Cation Dating For Rock Art Sites On Public Lands In the Southern Pryor Mountains and Big Horn Basin (1989) (0)
Effects of characteristics of cuttings on the establishment of poplar nurseries. (1985) (0)
: The La Roche Site . J. J. Hoffman. ; Bighorn Canyon Archeology . Wilfred M. Husted. (1970) (0)
3. The North American Bison (2019) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Survey of 40 Ft. Right-Of-Way for a Pipeline and Open Ditch For Upland Industries Between Green River and Black's Fork (1976) (0)
[Research on water requirements of poplar in a nursery irrigated by drop]. [Italian] (1982) (0)
Old World Archaeology and Archaeologists from a New World Perspective (1987) (0)
weaponry and Tools Used by the Hunter (2004) (0)
Interim Report On the 1991 Data Recovery and Analysis At the Twin Mountain Site 5Ga1513 (1992) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Survey of Proposed Drilling Platform Sites (1976) (0)
Comparative trials on the rooting and growth of young Poplars obtained by lifting rooted plants and by cutting off stems at soil level. (1970) (0)
Interim Report On the 1992 and 1993 Data Recovery and Analysis At the Twin Mountain Site 5Ga186 (1994) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Survey of Proposed Pipeline From the Texasgulf Plant To the Proposed Tailings Pond Area (1975) (0)
Review of Wilmsen and Roberts, Lindenmeier, 1934-1974: Concluding Report On Investigations (1982) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Surveys On Two Proposed Drilling Platforms, No. 1 Buck Horn Unit, and No. 1 County Line Unit (1976) (0)
General, Applied and Theoretical: The Time of the Buffalo. TOM MCHUGH, with the assistance of VICTORIA HOBSON (1974) (0)
Analysis of Reoccupation: An Example From the McKean Site (1984) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Surveys Conducted On Three Proposed Union Pacific Railroad Projects Near Point of Rocks and Near Mouth of Cedar Canyon (1976) (0)
Archaeology: The Gull Lake Site: A Prehistoric Bison Drive Site in Southwestern Saskatchewan. Thomas F. Kehoe (1978) (0)
Keyhole Reservoir Archaeological Study (1988) (0)
A Myriad of Life’s Necessities (2016) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Clearance for Sheep Creek Drill Location (FS Lease #W-10-17707) (1976) (0)
Clovis: Origins and Adaptations@@@Prehistoric Hunters of the High Plains@@@Ice Age Hunters of the Rockies (1994) (0)
New method for pruning poplar. (1984) (0)
Proposed Data Recovery Plan For 1992 At the Twin Mountain Site 5GA.1513 (1992) (0)
Typology and Technology of the Mill Iron Flaked Stone Tools (1988) (0)
Mammoth and Bison Hunting (2016) (0)
Letter Report: An Archaeological Survey for a 25 Foot Wide Powerline Right-Of-Way (1976) (0)
Sloan: A Paleoindian Dalton Cemetery in Arkansas. Dan F. Morse. 1997. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. xviii + 157 pp., 59 figures, 26 tables, references cited, list of contributors, index. $70.00 (cloth). (1998) (0)
[Survey about the growth rate of some poplar clones in the Po Valley]. [Italian] (1986) (0)
5. The North American Pronghorn (2019) (0)
APPENDIX 9 – Horner Site Artifact Data (1987) (0)
Letter Report: An Archeological Survey of Red Scoria Outcrops (1975) (0)
[Tests on the treatment of poplar iron chlorosis]. [Italian] (1986) (0)
Archaeological Investigations At 48CK7, the McKean Site: Preliminary Report (1983) (0)
Letter Report: Final Report and Recommendations of Two Archeological Surveys for Fmc Corporation, Both Private Federal Lands, Proposed Mine Site and Plant Site Around Skull Point Reservoir (1976) (0)
Post-Pleistocene Man and His Environment on the Northern Plains. Edited by R.G. Forbes, L. B. Davis, O. A. Christensen and G. Fedirchuk. Student's Press, University of Calgary, Calgary, 1969. iii + 221 pp., 2 figs. (1971) (0)
Stand density and its impact on productivity in poplar plantations. (1994) (0)
Paleoindian in the Powder River Basin (1977) (0)
Letter Report: Pipeline Right-Of-Way Just West of Fontinelle Reservoir (1976) (0)
2. The Education of a Hunter (2019) (0)
Methodology for the High Plains and Rocky Mountains: Animal Behavior, Experimentation, and High-Tech Approaches (2016) (0)
The Northwestern Plains and the Central Rocky Mountains: An Ecological Area for Prehistoric Hunters and Gatherers (2016) (0)
Letter Report: Surveys of the One and a Half Sections Near Hanna (1976) (0)
Of Proboscidean Bone Tools and Paleoindians (2017) (0)
Book Reviews (2009) (0)
9. Concluding Thoughts (2019) (0)
[Dendrometric and auxometric research about the Euroamerican poplar "I-214" cultivated by a spacing of 3 x 2,50 m.] (1980) (0)
6. The Rocky Mountain Sheep (2019) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Survey of Four Drilling Platforms and Access Routes North of Evanston (1976) (0)
Paleoindians and Rockshelters in the Middle Rocky Mountains (2015) (0)
Progress Report On the Piney Creek Sites, Wyoming (1965) (0)
Letter Report: Archaeological Surveys in Two Sections In the South Haystack Draw Area Near Evanston (1976) (0)
James Clark Miller, 1955–2012 (2016) (0)
Northern Plains Adaptation Types Chapter 2 (1996) (0)
Propagation of poplar. (1996) (0)
1. Where the Buffalo Once Roamed (2019) (0)
Letter Report: Survey of Five Drilling Platforms and Access Routes for Stauffer Chemical Company (1976) (0)
Goshen Paleoindian Complex: a Clovis Variant and the Direct Precursor of Folsom (1986) (0)
Communities and Landscape (2016) (0)
Vegetational History of Yellowstone Park as Determined by Pollen Analysis (1978) (0)
3. Paleoindian Hunters and extinct Animals (2019) (0)
Index to Volume 51 (1986) (0)
Prehistoric Hunting of Other Game and Small Animal Procurement (2016) (0)
Research on volume and growth of Populus 'I-214' grown at 3X2.50 m spacing. (1980) (0)

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