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This is an abstract from the "Frontiers of Plant Domestication" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The importance of agaves to Mesoamerica and its cultures has long been recognized, providing food, fiber and beverage. However, their significance to these cultures has overshadowed and distorted the plants’ role for indigenous peoples north of the U.S. - Mexico border. Pre-Columbian farmers grew no less than six and possibly as many as eight or more...
Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Burial Practice Among Prehistoric Native Americans: Midwest Region, Volume III (2014)
Volume III of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series analyzes prehistoric mortuary practice in the Midwest Region of North America. The database consists of 32,998 individuals from 1,304 burial sites and covers the period from approximately 9000 B. P. until A. D. 1500. The region by now comprised of the following states: Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. The provinces are analyzed individually by prehistoric period, then the analysis is followed by...
Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Burial Practice Among Prehistoric Native Americans: Southeast Region, Volume IV (2014)
Volume IV of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of specific mortuary behaviors and characteristics utilized by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southeast Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures"...
Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Plains Region, Volume II (2014)
Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Plains Region, is Volume II of the five volume set entitled PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES. Twelve years of research that covered North America between the Rockies and the Appalachians provided a comprehensive multi-regional database consisting of 97,821 deceased individuals from 3,678 prehistoric burial sites. From that database I formulated a Plains region database consisting of 13,104 deceased individuals from 1,229 burial sites within Montana,...
Pre-Columbian Burial Rites: Mortuary Practice Among Prehistoric North Americans: Southwest Region (2014)
Volume I of the PRE-COLUMBIAN BURIAL RITES series consists of a comprehensive examination and discussion of mortuary behaviors by the prehistoric inhabitants of the Southwest Region of North America. The study of burial practice is useful to the discussion of the complexities of population traits and characteristics because on a societal scale, similarity or differentiation of patterning in the disposal of the dead has been considered one of the basic identifying "signatures" used to distinguish...
Pre-Construction Testing at the Off-Street Transit Center, 44th Street and Washington Street, Pueblo Grande AZ U:9:1(ASM), Phoenix, Arizona (2007)
This report presents the results of an archaeological pre-construction testing program completed at the location of the Off-Street Transit Center (Transit Center) at the southwest corner of 44th and Washington streets, within the City of Phoenix. The property is shaped like a right triangle measuring approximately 206 m (686 ft) from east to west and 127 m (422 ft) north to south. The parcel is bounded on the north and east by Washington Street and 44th Street, respectively. The southern...
Pre-Contact Land Use of the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. SWCA Environmental Consultants is conducting heritage resource surveys across 4,388 acres of lands managed by the Cibola National Forest. These surveys will aid the U.S. Forest Service and the Claunch-Pinto Soil and Water Conservation District of Mountainair, New Mexico, in completing landscape-level treatments designed to protect an unburned forested...
Pre-Excavation Plans and Sketches, 1983 and 2014 (2014)
This pre-excavation file contains the following, created/assembled by Joe Lewandowski, Tularosa Basin Historical Society: 1. 1983 color photo of the Atari deposit hand-marked in 2014 with presumed stratigraphic layers. 2. 2014 color sketch of the possible stratigraphy of the landfill cell containing the Atari deposit. 3. 1983 color photo of cement slurry being poured over the Atari deposit. 4. 1983 b/w photo of the Atari deposit. 5. 2014 satellite image from Google Earth of the Alamogordo...
Prearchaic Land Use in Grass Valley, NV: A Novel Statistical Implementation of Optimal Distribution Models (2018)
Despite decades of work, debate persists regarding the nature and extent of Prearchaic land use patterns in the North American Great Basin. While some archaeologists argue that Prearchaic hunter-gatherers favored a broad diet and, therefore, relied on a generalist land use strategy, others insist that they favored a narrow diet, thus relying instead on a specialist land use strategy. To help resolve these debates, here we ask the simple question: what environmental parameters drive variation in...
Prearchaic Settlement Decisions in the Great Basin (2018)
Researchers propose that the first people to occupy the Great Basin preferentially settled near pluvial lakes to exploit highly profitable wetland habitats. However, a systematic evaluation of this hypothesis has yet to be undertaken. Here we test predictions from an ideal free distribution model to determine if the settlement decisions of Prearchaic foragers were indeed biased toward pluvial ecosystems. The results not only elucidate Prearchaic settlement patterns, but also establish...
Prearchaic Settlement Distribution in the Central Great Basin (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first occupants of the Great Basin settled the region when highly profitable wetland environments were abundant, but their spatial distribution was highly variable. Results of our earlier work identified an interesting pattern driven by this variation: Prearchaic (>8000 BP) settlements in the Lahontan and Bonneville Basins were closer to pluvial lakes than...
Precontact Domestic Dogs in the Moapa Valley (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of the Virgin Branch Puebloan Region" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since the domestication of the dog (Canis familiaris), they have been granted various roles within human society. Because of the often close relationship with people, domestic dogs were often given similar burial customs as people. Precontact dog burials have been recovered throughout many regions in North America. Although some of these...
Prediction of Human Remains Distribution within WWII Bombardment Aircraft Crash Sites (2017)
Examination of eight WWII bombardment aircraft loss incidents previously resolved by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has allowed for the creation of a model that predicts where human remains can be expected to be recovered from within a crash scene based upon each crew member’s duty station. This paper details where each individual was found in relation to the aircraft wreckage at the crash sites, including those criteria for a case to be included in the model and how hypotheses...
Predictive Locational Modeling of Archaeological Resources on McGregor Range, Southern Tularosa Basin, New Mexico (2002)
This report provides the Fort Bliss Directorate of Environment with a series of predictive models of archaeological site location on McGregor Range for use as a decision support tool in the McGregor Withdrawal EIS Project. These predictive models and their associated probability surface maps are based on empirical correlations between known prehistoric archaeological site locations and a range of biophysical variables within the McGregor landscape. The predictive modeling effort has been guided...
Predictive Modeling of Early Archaic Bolen Site Distribution in Northwestern Florida, USA (2018)
Site visibility has long been an issue for late Pleistocene/early Holocene research in the southeastern United States, partially due to modern forest cover and partially due to large portions of the Southeast having been submerged by more than 80 meters of sea level rise. However, a large number of Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Bolen artifacts have been discovered in Jefferson and Taylor counties in northern Florida, including dozens from underwater sites that were inundated...
Predictive Modeling of Paleoindian and Archaic Sites across Florida with GIS (2018)
Florida’s terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene archaeological sites form interesting settlement patterns when projected upon various geographic representations. Probably many unknown Paleoindian and Early Archaic sites still remain hidden and unstudied, as more than half of Florida’s landmass was inundated during these cultural periods. Due to constraints in visibility and access, the practical limits of traditional survey hinder progress in discovering additional sites around the state. With...
Prehispanic Copper Artifacts Found in the Gila National Forest (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Research Hot Off the Trowel in the Upper Gila and Mimbres Areas" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery of a prehispanic copper artifact on a Classic Mimbres site in the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico in 2009 initiated an archaeological investigation to determine if more prehispanic copper artifacts existed in the Mimbres area. This preliminary investigation involved surveying a small sample of...
Prehispanic Pueblo Use in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Research in the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument, Northern New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Prior research in and around the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument has predominately focused on the Archaic use of the area. Minimal focus has been emphasized to explore the use by Pueblo groups. This paper examines use of the landscape from the Developmental Period (900-1200 A.D.) through the...
Prehistoric Agricultural Activities on the Lehi-Mesa Terrace: Excavations at La Cuenca del Sedimento (1989)
This study is the first of two volumes that describe the results of archaeological investigations undertaken within the Tempe Section of the Outer Loop Freeway system. This work was funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation and conducted under Contract 86-102. Three sites were investigated as part of this project, including La Cuenca del Sedimento, a farmstead/fieldhouse site, and AZ U:9:69(ASM) and AZ U:9:71(ASM). All three sites were crossed by portions of the Las Acequias-Los Muertos...
A Prehistoric Agricultural Field and Protohistoric Camp at AZ AA:16:335 (ASM) in the Tucson Basin: Data Recovery for the Road Widening Project (1992)
Two archaeological sites (AZ AA:16:334,335 ASM) on the edge of the Pleistocene terrace above the historic floodplain of the Santa Cruz River west of downtown Tucson, Arizona, threatened by widening of a road, were investigated to recover information prior to construction. The prehistoric rock features at site AZ AA:16:334 (ASM) were destroyed by a backhoe before this data recovery program began. On the basis of mapping of surface cultural features and artifact distributions, and total collection...
Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...
Prehistoric Agriculture at La Plata: Exploring Soil Texture Changes across Features (2007)
Numerous factors affect soil composition, including the parent rock, time, rainfall, wind, and animal burrowing and wastes, but human activities undoubtedly cause the most extensive change in soil properties over the shortest periods of time. At Pueblo La Plata, intensive agricultural practices were utilized for just over 200 years, and yet, six centuries later, the legacies created on the landscape are still as visible. This paper will focus on the effects of prehistoric agriculture on soil...
Prehistoric agriculture in the Central Plains (1988)
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Prehistoric and Early Historic Settlement in the Kissimmee River Valley: An Archaeological Survey of the the Avon Park Air Force Base (1987)
Orignally the information in this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. NADB-R records consist of a document citation and limited other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. In 2013, as part of a project done for the US Air Force, digital curators of the Center for Digital Antiquity updated the original record by adding a digital copy of the article described and more detailed metadata. The article...
Prehistoric and Historic Archaeological Survey of Approximately 300 Acres at Shaw Air Force Base and the Wateree Recreational Area
From September through December 1996 crews from the South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the University of South Carolina and the Public Service Archaeology Program of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conducted Phase I archaeological survey of 284 acres at Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter County, and Wateree Recreational Area, Kershaw County, South Carolina, for the United States Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories. The investigations were designed...