North America: Rocky Mountains (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles McLeod.

This is an abstract from the "Public Lands, Public Sites: Research, Engagement, and Collaboration" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 1979 the Lolo National Forest purchased 320 acres in the Upper Rock Creek drainage, Granite County, Western Montana. The 320 acres incorporated two patented homestead claims (Hogback Homestead and Morgan-Case Homestead), both with standing architecture. In 1990 the Missoula Ranger District began rehabilitation of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mairead Doery.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. "Tool grooves”, "incised lines" and “axe-sharpening marks” are some of the varying names used to describe linear rock modifications found across western North America. Previous ethnoarchaeological research has examined methods and motivations surrounding the creation of such markings, but consideration of their individual landscape contexts remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Reese Cook.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. When comparing the volume of studies conducted concerning precontact ceramics in the eastern Snake River Plain of Idaho to its neighboring regions, it is evident that the underwhelming amount of information is due to the lack of samples and the provincial reliability of the samples. Many past studies have been limited to garnering research data from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Burnett. Erik Otárola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2002, Dr. Lawrence Todd initiated a multiyear interdisciplinary survey in the Shoshone National Forest in northwest Wyoming. Dr. Todd and his team have meticulously documented several thousand individual artifacts per year. While they only sampled a small fraction of the forest, Dr. Todd’s work has dramatically...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Simon. Rachel Egan. Harold Henke.

This is an abstract from the "Site Stewardship Matters: Comparing and Contrasting Site Stewardship Programs to Advance Our Practice" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Colorado’s State Historic Preservation Office and Office of the State Archaeologist (OSAC) share the same building and staff, but site stewardship of archaeological sites is not consolidated in the same manner. In the summer of 2020, OSAC conducted a survey to better understand...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Hladek. Molly Herron.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research presents the macroscopic and microscopic attributes of hair and feathers from the artifact assemblage of North Fork Cave #1, better known as Mummy Cave (48PA201) in Park County, Wyoming. The results of this research enable us to better understand the mammalian and avian resources exploited during the Archaic and Prehistoric periods in the Greater...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Florence Dickens. Samantha Blatt.

This is an abstract from the "Canine Resources for the Archaeologist" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological practice demands international preservation of the cultural integrity of Indigenous and historical burials informed by decedent communities. Therefore, it is paramount to explore efficient, minimally invasive methods limiting burial disturbance, while allowing documentation. Coupled with ground-penetrating radar (GPR), human remains...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mavis Greer. John Greer.

This is an abstract from the "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Rock Art Documentation, Research, and Analysis" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Setting and geographic context have always been integral to rock art analysis and are important in combination with symbolic content for determining site function. The Weeksville Pictographs in western Montana exemplify intentional selection of a location for pre- and postcontact rock art by both Natives and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Phillips. Avery Shawler. Chloe Winkler.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The authors analyzed scat collected from gray wolf (Canis lupus) packs in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem from 2019 – 2021. Faunal remains in the scat were identified to element, using comparative collections from the Draper Museum of Natural History, and assessed for surface modification and abrasion. This information was supplemented by species...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Troy Lovata.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation examines how wickiups—light, compact wooden structures common across many times and places in the American Mountain West—reflect the conception and use of contemporary mountain landscapes. Landscape archaeology allows us to understand how people’s actions and experiences transform the physical environment from an abstract space to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Todd. Daniel Dalmas.

This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2002 the Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology (GRSLE) project has undertaken an artifact-based, landscape-scale inventory in the eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, on the Shoshone National Forest in NW Wyoming. Much of the project has been conducted in the Washakie Wilderness and has...