Hell Gap complex

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The Hell Gap complex is an early Paleoindian archaeological culture of the North American Great Plains, known for its distinctive projectile points and hunting adaptations following the Clovis period.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Paleoindian archaeological culture
archaeological culture
lithic technology complex
associatedWithEnvironment post-glacial grassland adaptation
associatedWithFauna Bison antiquus NERFINISHED
Pleistocene megafauna remnants
associatedWithSubsistence big-game hunting GENERATED
bison hunting GENERATED
pronghorn hunting GENERATED
chronologicalPosition post-Clovis Paleoindian complex NERFINISHED
transitional complex between Clovis/Folsom and Plano
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalContinuityWith later Plano complexes
endTime circa 9,500 BP
follows Clovis culture NERFINISHED
Folsom complex NERFINISHED
hasDistinctiveArtifact Hell Gap projectile point
bifacial knife
endscraper
lanceolate projectile point
sidescraper
stemmed projectile point
hasDistinctiveTechnology bifacial thinning
fluted and unfluted point production
hasEvidenceType camp sites
kill sites
lithic workshops
hasTypeSite Hell Gap site NERFINISHED
identifiedBy lithic assemblage characteristics
locatedIn High Plains NERFINISHED
North American Great Plains NERFINISHED
namedAfter Hell Gap archaeological site NERFINISHED
overlapsWith Agate Basin complex NERFINISHED
Cody complex
partOf Paleoindian period NERFINISHED
regionOfInfluence Colorado NERFINISHED
Wyoming NERFINISHED
western Nebraska NERFINISHED
western South Dakota NERFINISHED
researchField Paleoindian archaeology
startTime circa 10,800 BP
studiedInDiscipline North American archaeology
temporalRange Early Holocene
late Pleistocene–early Holocene transition
typeSiteLocatedIn Niobrara County, Wyoming NERFINISHED
Wyoming NERFINISHED

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Plano cultures hasSubgroup Hell Gap complex