The McKean site is an
archaeological site in
Crook County,
Wyoming,
United States.
A premier site of the
Great Plains
The Great Plains (french: Grandes Plaines), sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in prairie, steppe, an ...
hunting cultures, it is the namesake of the "McKean
Complex." Two significant contemporary sites of the same culture are
Signal Butte
Signal Butte is a major prehistoric archaeological site in rural western Nebraska, United States. Designated by the Smithsonian trinomial 25SF1, it was one of the first pre-contact Native American sites to be formally investigated in the central ...
in
Nebraska and the
LoDaisKa site in
Colorado.
[Irwin, Henry J., and Cynthia C. Irwin. ]
Radiocarbon Dates from the Lodaiska Site, Colorado
" '' American Antiquity'' 27 (1961): 114-115.
In 1991, the McKean site was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
References
Further reading
* Mulloy, W.T. 1953. ''A Preliminary Historical Outline for the Northwestern Plains.'' Chicago: Ill. University of Chicago.
* Smithsonian Institution, and R.P. Wheeler. 1951. ''Appraisal of the Archeological and Paleontological Resources of the Keyhole Reservoir, Crook County, Wyoming.'' Washington, D.C.: The Smithsonian Institution.
* Wheeler, R.P. 1995. ''Archeological Investigations in Three Reservoir Areas in South Dakota and Wyoming.'' Lincoln, Neb.: J & L Reprint Co.
External links
McKean Archaeological SiteUniversity of Wyoming
{{NRHP in Crook County, Wyoming
McKean Site
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Wyoming
Geography of Crook County, Wyoming
National Register of Historic Places in Crook County, Wyoming