North America: Great Plains (Geographic Keyword)

101-125 (236 Records)

Huff Village Revisited: A New Radiocarbon Chronology for a Pivotal Time (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Travis Jones.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The large, heavily-fortified Huff village site in North Dakota is a quintessential Late Prehistoric plains village within the Middle Missouri region of the Northern Plains. Since the 1940s, attempts to establish Huff’s occupational history and absolute placement in time achieved only coarse-grained or inconclusive results, suggesting village occupations...


Identification of Wood Used at Daugherty Cave, WY (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Lemminger.

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From 1954 to 1957 Dr. Frison excavated Daugherty Cave (48-WA-302). Various perishable artifacts were recovered from the site including moccasins, basketry, cordage, wood, hide and sinew. It is a Late Archaic to Late Prehistoric site on the west side of the Bighorn...


Identifying Hunter-Gatherer Socialized Landscapes in the Bridger Mountains, Montana (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Meghan Dudley.

Archaeologists working in the Rocky Mountains and throughout the world have long recognized that people invest social meanings into the landscape around them. Based on de Certeau’s (1984) "Spatial Stories," these "socialized landscapes" consist of two archaeologically identifiable components: espaces (practiced spaces) and tours (practiced paths). I operationalize these ideas by creating archaeological expectations for six socialized landscape types and ask what types of socialized landscapes...


Innovative GIS Mapping Approaches Further Support Historic Site, Etzanoa, Was Located at the Mouth of the Walnut River, Arkansas City, Kansas (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Mailler. Spencer Mitchell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This analysis presents convincing evidence that the mythic city of Etzanoa locale can be confirmed as located at the mouth of the Walnut River, in Arkansas City as proposed by Dr. Donald Blakeslee in 2018. Satellite imagery, ESRI’s GIS technologies, georeferencing, and comparative viewshed analyses conducted in geospatial environments offer new and innovative...


Instructor, Boss, Mentor and Friend: The Multi-Talented Dr. Loendorf (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeani Borchert.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I was a college student in elementary education when I was inspired by the enthusiasm of an instructor in a class I took for fun: Intro to Archaeology and Physical Anthropology. It changed the course of my life. Larry’s contributions to our field are enormous and varied as he is a man of intellectual curiosity,...


Interpreting a Mid-Eighteenth-Century Vertebrate Assemblage from a Probable Comanche Site on the Southern High Plains of Texas (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lila Jones. Eileen Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Whiskey Flats is a mid-eighteenth-century probable Comanche site on the Southern High Plains in Midland County, Texas. Ongoing excavation in Mustang Draw of the now dry Mustang Pond uncovered evidence of occupation along a terrace and a bone bed within the pond basin. A modern bison periotic from the bone bed dates to the mid-1700s. Artifacts from both areas...


Into the West(ern Plains): Results of the 2017 Bighorn Archaeology Field School, Park and Fremont Counties, Wyoming (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily Van Alst. Laura Scheiber. Mackenzie Cory. Kirsten Hawley. Cally Steussy.

This presentation highlights several aspects of archaeological research and training undertaken by the Indiana University Bighorn Archaeology field school in its thirteenth year. Areas of study include documentation of Native residential campsites (stone circles) at the Heart Mountain Nature Conservancy; research at the Heart Mountain WWII Japanese American Confinement Site; photogrammetry of stone architecture (stone circles and cairns) and rock art around the Bighorn Basin; comparative rock...


Intrasite Spatial Analysis at the Debra L. Friedkin Site, TX (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Carlson. Michael Waters. Joshua Keene.

The Debra L. Friedkin site, located in central Texas along Buttermilk Creek, provides evidence of human occupation in Texas during the past 15 thousand years within a deposit approximately 1 meter thick. Excavation Block A consisted of 52 contiguous 1x1 m units excavated between 2006 and 2009. Excavations since the initial publication of the site include 14 units adjacent to the south end of the block and 32 units just northeast. Each 1x1 m unit was excavated in 2.5 cm levels. Currently we are...


Introducing Educational Methods to Archaeological Content and Practice: A Follow-Up Study of K–12 Summer Camp Curriculum Building (2023)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikaela Razo. Marissa Muñoz.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, outreach within archaeology is changing to meet the needs of its communities, including the methods used by archaeologists to disseminate information and engage diverse age groups. “Legacy: Hands on the Past” is an archaeological outreach program based out of the Center for Archaeological Research at the University of Texas at...


Investigating a Shelter in Oklahoma Schools: Bringing Museum Artifacts into the Classroom (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Luthman. Meghan Dudley.

This is an abstract from the "Touching the Past: Public Archaeology Engagement through Existing Collections" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In Oklahoma, giving K-12 students hands-on experiences with real artifacts can be challenging when collections are inaccessible in museum repositories. To make archaeology accessible to all students at the national level, Project Archaeology’s Investigating Shelter (2009) for grades 3-5 supplements social...


Investigating Prehistoric Land Use History and Place Use Variability with Low Density Surface Scatters of Stone Artifacts in the Oglala National Grassland, Northwestern Nebraska (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Douglass. Simon Holdaway. Sam Lin.

The USDA Forest Service National Grassland System consists of 20 individual native and restored prairie grasslands. While the scale of these areas allows landscape survey, this ‘sea of grass’ is a challenge for artifact and feature discovery due to vegetation cover, meaning archaeologists must use surface visibility created by erosion, deflation, and other natural and anthropogenic processes. Here we report on a collaborative student-training project between the Forest Service and the University...


Investigating the Cody Complex at the Capshaw site, a Late Paleoindian site in Texas (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Janaka Greene.

This paper presents the results of an investigation conducted at the Capshaw site, a lithic scatter site, located within the Southern High Plains region in the panhandle of Texas. The Southern High Plains region is well-known for its rich archaeological record of Paleoindian peoples, however the Cody period remains relatively poorly understood. The paper will first describe the history of the site from its discovery in 2013 through archaeological surveys with explorative field school excavations...


Is Fluting Exclusive to Paleoindians? A Comparison of Paleoindian and Archaic End-Thinning Techniques (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Lassen. Sergio Ayala.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The idea that fluting is a uniquely Paleoindian technological marker for projectile points in the Americas has been considered a given ever since the original Folsom discovery in 1927. While it is true that fluted lanceolate points are reliably diagnostic artifacts of the Paleoindian period, stemmed points from the Archaic period also occasionally exhibit end...


Islands on the Plains Revisited: GIS-Based Predictive Models of Playa Use on the Southern High Plains (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Luc Litwinionek. Stance Hurst. Eileen Johnson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Landscape Archaeology is useful in providing a framework for understanding human movements across various environments. Such an approach relates landscapes as they evolved through time to settlement patterns of human groups occupying the area. Cultural behaviors can then be linked to physiographic and topographic features using such an approach. On the...


An Isolated Middle Archaic Bison Kill Site in the Northern Texas Panhandle (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Veronica Arias.

The discovery of a nearly complete, articulated Bison occidentalis in association with a Calf Creek projectile point in the northern Texas Panhandle in 2002 constitutes one of the few known Middle Archaic archaeological sites in the region. As the remains were found incidental to the construction of a new municipal swimming pool, documentation of the excavation and any subsequent analysis were less than ideal. A recently obtained AMS radiocarbon date of the remains at 5115 RCYBP falls within the...


The Jones-Miller Legacy Collection: Reexamining the 10,800 Year Old Bison Butchery Site (2024)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Gillaspie. Steve Nash. Natalie Patton. Magen Hodapp. Chrissina Burke.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones-Miller Site, located in the eastern Colorado tri-state area, was excavated in the mid-1970s. The Hell Gap complex site has been credited as the only bison butchery site of its kind and size in Colorado, yielding 41,000 Bison antiquus bones, 200 stone tools, 11,000 pieces of debitage, and hundreds of liters of soil samples. In 2017, the...


A Keelboat Petroglyph in the Northern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Bies.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Wyoming’s Big Horn Basin is one of the areas where Dr. Larry Loendorf has worked for years. This paper talks about a new rock art site in north-central portion of the Big Horn Basin. In 2015 two ranch women Lynette Kelley Cook and Phyllis Preator contacted the author about rock art in the northern Bighorn...


Kill, Camp, and Repeat: A Return to the Lindenmeier Folsom Site of Northern Colorado (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelton Meyer. Jason LaBelle.

Paleoindians of the Great Plains are often generalized as highly mobile bison hunters that moved in response to migrating bison. This view is certainly shaped by many well-known single component bison kills which form the basis for the argument. The Lindenmeier (5LR13) Folsom site of northern Colorado might be a notable exception to the high mobility model, as it contains hundreds of Folsom tools, animal bone, chipping debris, and decorated artifacts spread over 800 meters of buried deposits....


The La Prele Mammoth Site: A Clovis Mammoth Site with an Associated Campsite, Converse County, Wyoming (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Madeline Mackie. Todd Surovell. Matthew O'Brien. Robert Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the biggest sticking points in the ongoing debate about Clovis subsistence is the small sample size of human killed extinct megafauna. While just over a dozen terminal Pleistocene megafauna kill sites have been identified in North America, there are only two cases where campsites have been found in association with butchered extinct megafauna...


Lame Bull Speaks: The Lukin Ledger and Pikuni Blackfoot History (2021)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Linea Sundstrom.

This is an abstract from the "Paleo Lithics to Legacy Management: Ruthann Knudson—Inawa’sioskitsipaki" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A Pikuni Blackfoot notebook created sometime between 1904 and 1911 and linked to the descendants of Lame Bull contains a winter count, a record of two treaty conferences, and a list of the leaders of various nations comprising the Blackfoot Confederacy, recorded as pictographs. An unknown person has annotated some...


The Lasting Legacy of Larry Loendorf at Legend Rock (2019)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie Francis.

This is an abstract from the "The Art and Archaeology of the West: Papers in Honor of Lawrence L. Loendorf" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For over 30 years, Larry Loendorf has spurred rock art research throughout Wyoming and Montana. No where have his contributions been more important and deeply felt than at the Legend Rock State Petroglyphs site (48HO4) in Wyoming. Through encouraging the use of standard archaeological methodology at rock art...


Late Archaic Southern Plains Bison Kills: Accumulated Analysis Results at the Certain Site, Western Oklahoma (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kirsten Tharalson. Leland C. Bement.

The Certain site is a 2000-year-old Late Archaic bison kill site consisting of multiple arroyo localities in western Oklahoma. Analysis of the site’s excavated faunal assemblage identified an MNI of several hundred bison, although an MNI around 1000 is expected for the entire site. At least nine distinct kill events are represented at Certain, including multiple seasonalities, though largely targeting calf/cow herds. We present the culmination of our analysis to date, including seasonality, herd...


Late Holocene Climate Change and the Emergence of Hunter-gatherer Territoriality in the Late Archaic Texas Coastal Plains: An Analysis using Bioavailable Strontium (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Solis.

The Late Holocene was a time of sea level stability, increased moisture, and abundant resources. Existing models suggest that this environment set the stage for population packing and territoriality. In this presentation, strontium isotope ratios from the Loma Sandia mortuary site (2800-2600 BP) are used to evaluate the emergence of territoriality among hunter-gatherer populations on the Texas Coastal Plain. Assessing territoriality with human strontium data is facilitated by determining the...


The Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at Lamb Spring, Colorado (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Knell.

The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at Lamb Spring, Colorado was recently reanalyzed. While best known for its possible association with Late Pleistocene fauna, the Lamb Spring Cody component with its nearly 2,000 bison bones, seven Eden projectile points, Cody knife fragment, and two flakes has largely been overlooked and incompletely described in the literature (excepting McCartney’s study of the bison bones). To remedy the situation I: (1) use prior publications, reports and the...


The Late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) Vertebrate Local Fauna from Zone 3 of Kincaid Rockshelter (41UV2), Uvalde County, Texas (2018)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Moretti. Eileen Johnson.

Kincaid Rockshelter (41UV2) is a stratified, multi-component archaeological site spanning the late Pleistocene-Holocene in Uvalde County along the Sabinal River in south-central Texas. Texas Memorial Museum investigations in 1948 produced a small but relatively diverse sample of late Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrates from the lacustrine Zone 3 depositional unit. Zone 3 material was examined as part of a review of American lion (Panthera leo atrox) remains from Texas. New qualitative and...