Ground Stone (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Lithic artifacts from sites 36JU15 (the Groninger Site) and 36JU113 (the Henry Site) were examined for possible protein residues. In addition, a nutting stone and an axe from 36JU15 were examined using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). These sites are located along Tuscarora Creek in southern Pennsylvania. Primary occupations during the Late Archaic (ca. 1500 BC) to the Late Woodland (ca. AD 1000-1250) were noted at the Groninger Site. In addition, more limited evidence for an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. David V. Hill. Chad Yost. R.A. Varney.

A large granitic pestle was recovered from the George Sellar Bridge Site, 45DO695, East Wenatchee, in central Washington, and submitted for protein residue, organic residue (FTIR), starch and pollen grain analysis. The site is located along a narrow terrace tread on the east bank of the Columbia River, within lands historically associated with Salish speaking groups. Sinkayuse and Wenatchi villages are located nearby. Entiat and Chelan use of this area is also reported. The pestle was recovered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A hand stone and 4 slab fragments cut from a large boulder were submitted for protein residue analysis from the Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, Oregon. Previous work by other researchers has identified the presence of a variety of mammal and fish protein residue and DNA at the Paisley Caves. Because of the age of this site, the suite of protein residue antisera used to test these artifacts included elephant, camel, and horse, representing Late-Pleistocene fauna now extinct in North America. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan. Linda Scott Cummings.

Forty artifacts from site 11PK1702 in Bay Creek valley, Pike County, western Illinois, were submitted for ethnobotanic analyses. Twenty-two lithic tools were analyzed for protein, and fourteen ceramic sherds, two hammerstones, and two groundstones were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Pollen, starch, and phytolith analysis were also performed on two of the ceramic sherds. Site 11PK1702 represents a special function lithic workshop with intensive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Raymond Wood.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Marshall I. Weisler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Bernice Lyons McAllister.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth A. Musser.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcie Venter.

Report of the 2014 field and lab season submitted to, and approved by the Consejo de Arqueologia, INAH

PROJECT Uploaded by: Christopher von Nagy

Digital images and supporting documents related to the Encrucijada-Pajonal Project (von Nagy 2003) along the Pajonal and Arenal paleodistributaries of the Grijalva delta. The project focused on Early and Middle Formative (Preclassic) Olmec settlements in western Tabasco. Pottery data acquired through excavation of Pajonal sites and from the site of San Andrés near La Venta form the basis for the Early and Middle Formative pottery chronology for the region of the Tabasco Olmec.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher von Nagy.

Catalog of ceramic type collections on file with the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). This is part of the Proyecto Laguna Costera document set.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Brent Woodfill

Archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, geology, and community development at the largest Precolumbian saltworks in the Maya world. Salinas de los Nueve Cerros was a Maya city located at the highland-lowland transition along the Chixoy River that produced up to 24,000 tons of salt/year during the Late Classic period (AD 600-850). It was occupied from at least 800 BC through the Classic collapse, and continued to be occupied throughout the Postclassic and colonial periods, with salt production...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Marilyn Masson

Report of Maya Life in Early Colonial Yucatan Project in 2018 at the visita sites of Yacman and Hunacti, supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society (#193R-18).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas Guderjan.

This paper summarizes more than a decade of excavations in the monumental core precinct of the Maya center of Blue Creek in Northwestern Belize.

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

The La Roche sites are located near the southern boundary of Stanley County, South Dakota, where the Missouri River, flowing to the east, makes a 90-degree turn to the south (Fig. 1). At this point, the high bluffs on the right bank of the river swing back and reveal a small, fertile floodplain known as the La Roche Bottoms. Prior to inundation in 1964, this bottom land and adjacent terrace contained the La Roche sites. Among these was 39ST9, one of the largest aboriginal occupations in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Wilfred M. Husted.

This monograph constitutes the report of archeological salvage operations in the upper Yellowtail Reservoir of Montana and Wyoming. The investigations were conducted by the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution in cooperation with the National Park Service as a part of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Archeological investigation of the Yellowtail Reservoir area by the River Basin Surveys spanned an 18-year period, from 1946 through the summer of 1964....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. (Warren Wendell) Caldwell. Richard E. Jensen.

This report in an outgrowth of activities of the Inter-agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program. Since the program's inception in 1945, it has been sponsored, administered, and funded by the National Park Service, Department of the Interior. The National Park Service, following an agreement with the Smithsonian Institution in 1945 (revised 1961, 1965 ), assumed responsibility for over-all programing, funding, and administration. The Smithsonian Institution acts in a dual...

DOCUMENT Full-Text D. J. Lehmer.

The Fire Heart Creek site report by Donald J. Lehmer, is the first publication in the Smithsonian venture, Publications in Salvage Archeology, which was designed to report the results of investigation carried out under the federal archaeological salvage program. This series, published by the River Basin Survey of the Smithsonian Institution, included a total of 13 reports issued between 1966 and 1969. The Fire Heart Creek site is located on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, on the west...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Warren W. Caldwell.

The Black Partizan Site, a large fortified earth-lodge village in Lyman County, South Dakota, was excavated by the Missouri Basin Project, Smithsonian Institution as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological and Paleontological Salvage Program within the Big Bend Reservoir. During the past decade and a half, salvage investigations have been carried out in a number of reservoirs along the main stem of the Missouri River but work has been most intensive in the lower Oahe and Big Bend Country of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard B. Johnston.

The Hitchell Site is one of a group of major village and burial areas excavated by the Smithsonian Institution and cooperating agencies within the Fort Randall Reservoir on the mainstem of the Missouri River in south-central South Dakota. Field investigations of one sort or another were completed at a substantial number of sites but, unfortunately, only a few were extensively excavated. Funds for salvage archeology were sharply limited and personnel were thinly spread so that, inevitably,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John J. Hoffman.

The Molstad Village report, by J. J. Hoffman, provides a comprehensive analysis of the Chouteau Aspect (Extended Coalescent Horizon), an important group of complexes that foreshadow the historic period within the Middle Missouri area. The generic "La Roche" development, which includes the Chouteau Aspect, is the most widespread of the archeological horizons presently recognized within the Middle Missouri. At the same time, the constituent complexes have been thought to be characterized by a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lionel A. Brown.

During the late spring of 1962 the River Basin Surveys, Smithsonian Institution, conducted an archeological survey of the Pony Creek Watershed in Mills County, Iowa, as a part of the Inter-Agency Archeological Salvage Program. The watershed was surveyed and archeological sites in danger of destruction or inundation were tested or excavated. The preliminary investigation was directed by the writer with the assistance of Wilfred M. Husted and Lee G. Madison, both of the River Basin Surveys,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carlyle S. Smith. Alfred E. Johnson.

The Two Teeth Site (39BF204) is situated on the left, or northeast, bank of the Missouri River in Buffalo County, South Dakota (Fig. 1; Pl. la), about three miles west of Fort Thompson, the administrative center of the Crow Creek Indian Reservation. The site lies on a minor terrace a few feet above the heavily wooded flood plain that, prior to inundation by the Big Bend Reservoir, formed an important element in the regional ecology. The area of occupation shows negligible relief but it has a...

PROJECT Katherine Spielmann. Arizona State University (ASU).

Archaeological investigations by Arizona State University in 1999-2000, directed by Katherine Spielmann and Billy Graves

DATASET William Graves.

This dataset contains information on the ceramics recovered during the 1999-2000 ASU excavation seasons at Pueblo Blanco, New Mexico.