Festschrift in Honor of Max G. Pavesic

This volume is dedicated to Max G. Pavesic and honors his long years of service to the anthropology and archaeology of the Northern Great Basin and Columbia Plateau. Max's professional career spanned more than four decades and included teaching and research experiences in California, the Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and England. The nine chapters in this volume reflect Max's long interest in radiocarbon dating and cultural chronology, in prehistoric mortuary behavior on the Southern Plateau and northern Great Basin, in the region's rich rock art record, and in the variable role that different types of artifact caches played in prehistoric lifeways. From the "I conclude this foreword in honor of Max by noting that he joins a very distinguished group of archaeologists who have also contributed to the impressive growth of our archaeological knowledge of the tribal cultures of the Plateau, of the Great Basin, and especially of Idaho. He joins such scholars as Earl Swanson, Richard Daugherty, Robert Butler, Roderick Sprague, Sven Liljeblad, Luther Cressman, Jesse Jennings, Mel Aikens, and others who have devoted their lives to producing scientific accounts of the archaeology of this great region of North America. Max is to be congratulated for a professional career well spent. We all join in celebrating his Festschrift." —Deward E. Walker, Jr., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder