Cheryl’s research in archaeology focused on the social and economic strategies that hunter-gatherers used to procure resources from their physical environments.
Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of New Mexico, was a study of variation among stone projectile points (spear tips) that were made and used by Paleoindians who inhabited the NORTH American Great Plains and adjacent Rocky Mountains approximately 10,000 years ago. Cheryl studied over 300 projectile points found in the collections of four museums. She concluded that similarities in the size and shape of projectile points distributed across a large geographic area encompassing New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and beyond, indicate that highly mobile bison hunters regularly interacted with each other.
Her doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of New Mexico, was a study of variation among stone projectile points (spear tips) that were made and used by Paleoindians who inhabited the NORTH American Great Plains and adjacent Rocky Mountains approximately 10,000 years ago. Cheryl studied over 300 projectile points found in the collections of four museums. She concluded that similarities in the size and shape of projectile points distributed across a large geographic area encompassing New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and beyond, indicate that highly mobile bison hunters regularly interacted with each other.
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