Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- A History of Stemmed and Fluted Technology Research in the American Far West -- Part I: Stemmed Technologies -- Western Stemmed Tradition Projectile Point Chronology in the Intermountain West -- Western Stemmed Tradition Toolstone Conveyance and Its Role in Understanding How Early Populations Settled into the Northwestern Great Basin -- Haskett and Its Clovis Parallels -- Regional Morphological Homogeneity among Mojave Desert Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Projectile Points -- The Younger Dryas-Aged Stemmed Points from Smith Creek Cave, Nevada -- The Western Stemmed Tradition Predates Clovis in the Columbia River Plateau -- Part II: Fluted Technologies -- The Clovis Record in the Far West -- Geographic Variability of Far West Fluted Points -- The Ages of Stemmed and Fluted Points in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains -- Part III: Broader Interactions -- Stemmed Points in the Southwest -- Cultural Transmission and the Interaction of Two Cultural Traditions in the Far West -- A Paleocoastal Western Stemmed Tradition Variant from the California Channel Islands -- Part IV: Moving Forward -- Across the Continental Divide -- References -- Contributors -- Index