Intermountain West (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth P. Cannon.

In 1995 the skull of a subadult male bison was recovered from the cutbank of Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, by a ranger for the Salmon-Challis National Forest. After slowly drying the skull for about a year it was turned over to the Midwest Archeological Center in order to be stabilized and analyzed for clues to the ecology of Late Holocene bison in the Intermountain West. A number of analytical techniques were applied to the skull in order to understand its age of deposition and ecology....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Kwan. Margaret Yee.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In the years leading up to the 150th Anniversary of the Transcontinental Railroad’s completion, the Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association (CRWDA) formed in order to organize the celebration of the contributions of the Chinese...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth P Cannon.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Diverse and Enduring: Archaeology from Across the Asian Diaspora" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Analysis of stable isotopes in bone collagen has been widely used to determine diet in humans and other vertebrates. The methods are well established in theory and practice. This exploratory project is focused on pig and cattle bones collected from surface contexts at Terrace to obtain δ13C, δ15N and Sr...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher W Merritt. Michael S. Sheehan.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Transitioning from Commemoration to Analysis on the Transcontinental Railroad in Utah: Papers in Honor and Memory of Judge Michael Wei Kwan" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. When historians and archaeologists typically analyze a historic railroad, the frame of reference generally rests on the railroad line itself, and those few and scattered places where workers lived during construction and maintenance. A...