Environment Research (Investigation Type)
These are studies that examine aspects of the present or past natural environment to provide a context, often off-site, for interpreting archaeological resources. Sometimes reported in stand-alone volumes representing significant research, such investigations may include geomorphological, paleontological, or palynological work.
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A broadly interdisciplinary, international team investigated the complex web of cultural, ecological, geological, and climate systems in the Kuril Islands. The Kurils provide uniquely laboratory-like conditions for this study, permitting examination of past changes in local climates and ecosystems along an island chain. The islands are situated along a latitudinal gradient extending from temperate Hokkaido Island (north of Japan) to subarctic Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia. Evidence of human...
KURIL BIOCOMPLEXITY PROJECT REPORT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD RESEARCH IN 2008 [Redacted]. (2009)
This report documents the archaeological field results from the 2008 expedition to the Kuril Island Archipelago. This expedition was sponsored by the Sakhalin Regional Museum under the direction of Dr. Tatiana P. Roon. Dr. Valery O. Shubin of the Sakhalin Regional Museum served as expedition leader and the lead Russian archaeologist. Dr. Ben Fitzhugh is the international director of the Kuril Biocomplexity Project (KBP) and lead American archaeologist.
KURIL BIOCOMPLEXITY PROJECT REPORT OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD RESEARCH IN 2008. (2009)
This report documents the archaeological field results from the 2008 expedition to the Kuril Island Archipelago. This expedition was sponsored by the Sakhalin Regional Museum under the direction of Dr. Tatiana P. Roon. Dr. Valery O. Shubin of the Sakhalin Regional Museum served as expedition leader and the lead Russian archaeologist. Dr. Ben Fitzhugh is the international director of the Kuril Biocomplexity Project (KBP) and lead American archaeologist.
Kuybyshevskaya 1 Artifact Photographs (2006)
Artifact photos from Kuybyshevskaya 1.
La Quemada-Malpaso Valley Archaeological Project (LQ-MVAP)
For over 15 years, Mexican and American archaeologists and students have dug ancient ruins, walked the high desert landscape, and worked in laboratories to understand the rise and fall of La Quemada, Zacatecas. We want to know why societies become complex, developing social hierarchies with specialized economic, political, and religious roles for their members. Why do civilizations expand? Northern Mexico's ancient past is an ideal context for studying these questions. During the period A.D....
Lakes, Wetlands, and Meadows: Past Climate and Environments of the Playas on the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base (2009)
Archaeologists are aware of the potential for late Pleistocene/early Holocene pluvial lake deposits to be associated with modern playas in the central and northern parts of the Great Basin. However, playas located farther south in the Great Basin do not appear to have supported pluvial lakes during past wet climate cycles. The five playas included in this study—the Indian Springs playa, Dog Bone Lake playa, Three Lakes Valley playa, the playas in Cactus Flat, and Pahute Mesa playa—are thought to...
Land Management Plan for Fort Sam Houston, Texas (1972)
The purpose of this plan is to provide an overall guide for the management and maintenance of lands for which the installation is responsible. This plan is to facilitate the military mission of the installation through the conservation, improvement, and maintenance of its natural resources in accordance with sound agronomic principles. The maintenance of improved and intensively improved grounds, such as lawns, drill fields, open areas, athletic fields, and landscape plantings will be...
Late Holocene Cultural Ecology in the Southern Plains: Perspectives from Delaware Canyon, Oklahoma (1986)
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Late Holocene Flooding Within the Salt River Basin, Central Arizona (1986)
This report to the Salt River Project documents findings of the 1985-1986 study of paleofloods in the Salt River Basin of central Arizona. Included are descriptions and analyses for flood deposits preserved at sites on the Verde and Salt Rivers and Tonto Creek. Stratigraphic interpretation, hydraulic modeling, and radiometric dating allowed us to make inferences about paleoflood timing, frequency, and magnitudes during the latest Holocene at the three study sites. These results can be compared...
Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Stress and Prehistoric Human Occupation on San Clemente Island (Legacy 91-083/91-473)
This doctoral dissertation discusses a study supporting the thesis that adverse paleoenvironmental conditions during the late Holocene appear to have notably influenced prehistoric cultural evolution in the Southern California Bight region. Radiocarbon dating confirmed changes in prehistoric settlement patterning, indicating a movement toward more reliable water sources, during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (AD 650-1250).
Late Holocene Paleoclimatic Stress and Prehistoric Human Occupation on San Clemente Island - Report (Legacy 91-083/91-473) (2000)
This doctoral dissertation discusses a study supporting the thesis that adverse paleoenvironmental conditions during the late Holocene appear to have notably influenced prehistoric cultural evolution in the Southern California Bight region. Radiocarbon dating confirmed changes in prehistoric settlement patterning, indicating a movement toward more reliable water sources, during the Medieval Climate Anomaly (AD 650-1250).
Late Holocene Paleoecology and Climate (1986)
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Late Holocene Relative Sea-Level Changes and the Earthquake Deformation Cycle Around Upper Cook Inlet, Alaska (2005)
This document details the history of relative seas level changes and earthquake deformation cycles in Cook Inlet, Alaska. Multiple peat-silt couplets preserved in tidal marsh sediment sequences suggest that numerous great plate boundary earthquakes caused the coast around Cook Inlet, Alaska, to subside over the past 3500 years. Field and laboratory analyses of the two youngest couplets record the well-documented earthquake of AD 1964 and the penultimate one, approximately 850 call yr BP. Diatom...
Late Pleistocene - Holocene Paleo-Climates and Environments In Southwestern Montana
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Late Pleistocene / Early Holocene Record In the Northern Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming (1987)
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Late Pleistocene / Holocene Mammalian Faunas and Environmental Changes On the Northern Plains of the United States. In Late Quarternary Mammalian Biogeography and Environment of the Great Plains and Prairies (1987)
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Late Prehistoric and Ethnohistoric Pinyon Exploitation in South-Central Nevada: A Case from the Belted Range, Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada (2012)
A Section 110 archaeological characterization inventory of the Belted Range was conducted for Nellis Air Force Base by Far Western in the latter half of 2010. The focus of the study was on identifying patterning that could inform current research on the prehistoric exploitation of singleleaf pinyon. The survey identified 64 sites (62 prehistoric, 2 historic-period) within a total of 1,798 acres. We find that the Belted Range pinyon zone is much like those throughout the region that contain...
Late Prehistoric Bison Distributions in Oklahoma (1986)
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Late Quaternary Biotic Records From Spring Deposits In Western Missouri (1976)
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Late Quaternary Deltaic Deposits of the Mississippi River (1955)
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Late Quaternary Environmental History of the Richard B. Russell Multiple Resource Area (1985)
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Late Quaternary Geology of the Lower Pomme De Terre Valley (1976)
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LATE QUATERNARY PALEOENVIRONMENTS AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE SAN PEDRO BASIN, SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA, U.S.A. (2010)
One of the most challenging questions surrounding the Clovis colonization of North America is the character and structure of terminal Pleistocene environments, including floral and faunal communities. A series of cores in the mouth of an arroyo revealed late Pleistocene – early Holocene wetland sediments buried 12 meters below surface, at the approximate elevation of the entrenched modern San Pedro River channel. A suite of 14C dates show that wetlands of the ancestral San Pedro River...
Late Quaternary Vegetation of the Great Plains (1983)
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Late Wisconsinan and Holocene Landscape Evolution and Alluvial Stratigraphy In the Saylorville Lake Area, Central Des Moines River Valley, Iowa (1985)
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