Fencing is perishable: reply to “Don’t fence them in”

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsWe appreciate Larry Loendorf for bringing to our attention Polly Shaafsma’s article of sandal images in the Four Corners area.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsMarcel KornfeldMarcel Kornfeld teaches anthropology at the University of Wyoming. His research focuses on Paleoindian lifeways, peopling of the Americas, site structure, hunter-gatherers, cultural ecology, chipped stone technology, and human use of rockshelters. Correspondence to: Marcel Kornfeld; University of Wyoming, Department 3431, 1000 East University Avenue, Laramie, WY 82071, USA. Email: Anpro1@uwyo.edu.J.M. AdovasioJ. M. Adovasio is currently the Director of Archaeology at the Senator John Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Southern Methodist University. His specialties include non-durable technology, geoarchaeology, and the application of high-tech protocols in the excavation of archaeological sites. He has worked in most of the United States and seven foreign countries. He has published some 600 scholarly works, more than half of which are on perishable technology.Mary Lou LarsonMary Lou Larson is Professor Emerita of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wyoming. She received a B.A from the University of Wyoming and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California Santa Barbara. Her field and laboratory research focuses on site formation and chipped stone analysis of Paleoindian times. Born and raised in Wyoming, she is a true blue democrat waiting for Wyoming to vote for a Democrat as President (the last one was 1964).Judson B. FinleyJudson Finley is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Utah State University where has worked since 2012. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from Washington State University in 2008. Finley specializes in human-environment interactions in the Middle Rocky Mountains, northern Colorado Plateau, and eastern Great Basin with recent work focused on the chronological and environmental context of the Fremont foraging-farming transition in northern Utah.