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The McLemore Site is located on a terrace overlooking Cobb Creek outside the town of Colony in central western Oklahoma. The first major archaeological investigation took place in 1960 under the auspices of Dr. Robert E. Bell of Oklahoma State University. Three sections of the site were excavated: an area of cache and refuse pits, an area once ...
Frankoma Pottery is an American pottery company located in Glenpool, Oklahoma, but originally based in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The company is known for its sculptures and dinnerware, although it also produced many other products, including figurines, trivets, and vases. All Frankoma pottery is made in the US from locally excavated clay. [1]
The Hopi in Arizona, some of whom speak Hopi-Tewa and others Hopi a Uto-Aztecan language, are also known for figurative work; clay kachina and animal effigies. However their best known work are low, squat vessels often produced in yellow-ware, such as those popularized by the early 20th century modern artist, Nampayo of Hano and her descendants ...
Oklahoma was a terrestrial environment for most of the ensuing Mesozoic era. [3] The Late Triassic Dockum Group of western Oklahoma preserved remains of archosaurs and temnospondyls, although its fossil record is restricted to a narrow region of the panhandle and is far sparser than the equivalent records in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. [98]
This list of the prehistoric life of Oklahoma contains the various prehistoric life-forms whose fossilized remains have been reported from within the US state of Oklahoma. Precambrian [ edit ]
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica and 6–65% quartz, along with small amounts of organic matter (such as lignite) and trace amounts of other minerals such as pyrite and siderite.
Buzz Aldrin's bootprint on the Moon in 1969 on the Apollo 11 mission. Footprints are the impressions or images left behind by a person walking or running.Hoofprints and pawprints are those left by animals with hooves or paws rather than feet, while "shoeprints" is the specific term for prints made by shoes.
Mel Cornshucker, Keetoowah Band Cherokee, (born 1952); Anita Fields, Osage/Muscogee, (born 1950); Bill Glass Jr., Cherokee Nation Anna Mitchell, Cherokee Nation (1926–2012), revived the art of Cherokee pottery for the Western Cherokee