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George Frison

Frison, George C.

1924 -

Laramie, WY 82070

Email address

uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/anthropology

Biographical and Professional Information

George Frison is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Wyoming. He was born in Worland, Wyoming, in 1924 and left college at the University of Wyoming to join the Navy during World War II. He ranched for several years in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, before returning to UW in 1962, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan by 1967. He was immediately appointed head of the UW department of anthropology and Wyoming's first state archaeologist. Dr. Frison has been a part of many pretigious associations and has received numerous awards, including an appointment to the National Academy of Sciences in 1997.

Genres

History

Nonfiction

Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric human predators and animal prey (2004). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN: 0520231902.

Archeological and Bioarcheological Resources of the Northern Plains (Editor) (1996). Fayetteville, AR: Arkansas Archeological Survey. ISBN: 1563490781. Co-editor Robert Mainfort.

The Iron Mill Site (Editor) (1996). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 082631676X.

The Horner Site: The type site of the Cody Cultural Complex (Editor) (1987). Orlando, FL: Academic Press. ISBN: 0122685652. Co-editor Lawrence Todd.

The Colby Mammoth Site: Taphonomy and archaeology of a clovis kill in Northern Wyoming (1986). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 0826308589. Co-author Lawrence Todd.

The Agate Basin Site: A record of the Paleoindian occupation of the Northwestern High Plains (1982). New York: Academic Press. ISBN: 0122685709. Co-author Dennis Stanford.

Folsom Tools and Technology at the Hanson Site, Wyoming (1980). Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN: 0826305296. Co-author Bruce Bradley.