The Higgins Site, Clarke County, Virginia ? A View of a PaleoAmerican Site in Vi: Higgins PaleoAmerican Site (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781983518997)

Wm Jack Hranicky is a retired U.S. Government contractor, but has been involved with archaeology as a full-time passion for over 40 years. His main interest is the Paleo-Indian period; however, he has worked in all facets of American archaeology. He has published over 200 papers and over 40 books in archaeology with one being a two-volume, 800-page, 10,000 artifacts book on the material culture of Virginia. In Virginia, he is considered an expert on prehistoric stone tools and rockart. He has delivered 100s of archaeological papers at various amateur and professional conferences throughout the U.S. His most extensive publication is the North American Projectile Points. It contains most of the published types, over 2000, in the archaeology literature. It is now in its 6th edition and has sold over 5000 copies in the last ten years. It is considered the largest single volume on point typology in the U.S. He has served as president of the Archeological Society of Virginia (ASV) and Eastern States Archeological Federation (ESAF), and been past chairman of the Alexandria Archaeology Commission. He is director of the Virginia Rockart Survey and (formerly) the McCary Fluted Point Survey. And, he is former president of the Alexandria Radio Club. He is a past president of the ASV's Northern Virginia Chapter. He mediated the turnover of Maryland's Sandy Hill Adena Cache which produced a book on the Adena culture. This collection is considered a national treasure. He has assisted in the turnover of numerous private artifacts to public agencies and museums. Also, he has performed nearly 200 artifact collection appraisals which were from Missouri to Florida to New York. He has analyzed over two million artifacts, and participated in nearly 50 excavations. He has appraised several collections for the Smithsonian. He has been the principal investigator for 6 excavations, such as the Tanner soapstone site in Brunswick County. His most recent completed archaeological investigation and excavation was the Spout Run solar observatory site in Clarke County, Virginia. He established it as a solstice ceremonial site which has a date of 10,470 years ago. It is the oldest above ground prehistoric site in North America. He excavated the Arkfeld site in Frederick County, Virginia, which is a Pleistocene site. This report is on the Internet.