Main Projects

 

Hell Gap – Our main project
Bighorn Shelters
Carter/Kerr-McGee
Laddie Creek
Ditch Creek

Other Projects

Agate Basin
Lingle Bone Bed
Krmpotich

Books:

Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the High Plains and Rockies
Hell Gap: A Stratified Paleoindian Campsite at the Edge of the Rockies
Pres du Bord d'un Abri

Medicine Lodge Creek

Survival by Hunting
The First Rocky Mountaineers
Stones, Bones, and Profiles

Articles:

Marcel Kornfeld. Are all the Bone Rods the Same? Hell Gap Specimen and More. 2025. Plains Anthropologist https://doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2025.2529120.

 

Marcel Kornfeld and Mary Lou Larson. Hell Gap Then and Now. 2025. In Current Studies of Diversity and Pattern in World Prehistory: In Commemoration of the Suyanggae and Her Neighbours for the Last Quarter Century and In Dedication to Prof. Yung-jo LEE’s 60 Years of Archaeology, edited by Kidong Bae, Jong-Yung Woo, and Ju-Yong Kim, pp. 292-302. Institute of Korean Prehistory, Chungbuk, Cheongju, Korea.

 

Marcel Kornfeld, Kathleen Holen, and Steven Holen. 2022. A Rediscovered Beveled Osseous Rod: Clarification of the Archaeological Record. Plains Anthropologist 67(261):19-32. DOI:10.1080/00320447.2021.1934254

 

Marcel Kornfeld, J.M. Adovasio, Mary Lou Larson. 2021. Perishable Artifacts from Last Canyon Cave, Pryor Mountains, Montana. Plains Anthropologist, 66(260):373-389. doi.org/10.1080/00320447.2021.1895042

 

Bonebeds and Other Myths: Paleoindian to Archaic Transition
Component age estimates for the Hell Gap Paleoindian site and methods for chronological modeling of stratified open sites
Further Insights into Paleoindian use of the Powars II Red Ocher Quarry