Holocene (Temporal Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Randall G. Updike. Henry R. Schmoll. Lynn A. Yehle.

This report discusses the quaternary geology of the Upper Cook Inlet region which is dominated by deposits of glacier retreats that followed repeated advances from both adjacent and more distant mountains. At several levels high on the mountains, there are remnant glacial deposits and other features of middle or older Pleistocene age.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ernest Dobrovolny. Yehle Lynn A.. Henry R. Schmoll.

This document consists of a report on the Anchorage B-8 SE quadrangle and part of the Anchorage B-8 NE quadrangle that lies along the southeast side of Knik Arm, one of the two upper extensions of Cook Inlet. The map area is located in south-central Alaska mainly within the Municipality of Anchorage. The northwestern part of the map area, entirely within Knik Arm, is part of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. Knik Arm, together with a broad embayment, Eagle Bay, occupies about one quarter of the map...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jim I. Mead. Harold D. Dyer.

Arizona State Parks (ASP) required the assessment of bones found exposed along the arroyo cut of the San Pedro River in San Rafael Valley, Santa Cruz County, southeastern Arizona. These remains held potential of being: 1) modern cattle (Bos) remains; 2) Spanish-age cattle (Bos); 3) Holocene-age Bison; or 4) Rancholabrean-age (> 11,000 B.P.) Bison or other large ungulate remains. This was the initial reason to enter lands held by San Rafael Ranch State Park (SRRSP). Cathy Johnson (ASP) contacted...

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Proceedings of International Conference on Wet Site Archaeology, Gainesville, Florida, December 12-14, 1986. This conference was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and University of Florida. Wet Site Archaeology identifies the characteristics common to all archaeological wet sites, from Newfoundland to Chile, Polynesia to Florida and from the Late Pleistoscene to the twentieth century. The rewards and responsibilities of recovering unique assemblages from water-saturated...