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DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

Part 3 presents the analyses of ecofacts. These studies provide the bridge between the environmental background provided in Part 2 and the material culture studies in Part 4. Ecofactual analyses are aimed at helping us understand subsistence patterns throughout prehistory. Both the paleobotanical studies and the faunal remains demonstrate 8,500 years of continuity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

Part 4 presents the analyses of artifacts. Worked bone and lithic analyses inform on technology, whereas shell ornaments and beads provide hints about the more personal aspects of prehistoric life. Although minor changes in material culture emerge, the clear pattern is 8,500 years on continuity. Combined with the analyses presented in Part 3, these chapters provide the data to interpret site structure and address many of the research issues outline in Part 2.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

Part 5 synthesizes the information presented in the report and places the site in its regional context. Because the site provides considerable time depth, issues such as change in site structure and social organization are addressed. This part demonstrates the unique nature of the Elsinore site both from a culture history perspective and as a database for archaeological research. We use this high-information site to reevaluate prehistory and to explore the challenges hunter-gathers faced over...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David A. Brown. Thane H. Harpole. Colleen Betti. Anna Hayden.

Fairfield Plantation's midden spans an historically complex period in Virginia's history (mid-18th-to-mid-19th century). This refuse deposit includes materials representating a cross section of the plantation's population, particularly those living in and near the 1694 manor house.  Although plowing in the late 19th and 20th century impacted the interpretive potential of the midden, all was not lost. DAACS cataloging of artifacts recovered from 138 five-foot-square test units within and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text G. Timothy Gross.

Eighteen sites were tested in the Grass Mesa Locality during the 1979 and 1980 field seasons. Test excavations, including both probability and jurlgmental excavation, were conducted at Hanging Rock Hamlet (Site 5MT4650), Cougar Springs Cave (Site 5MT4797), Quasimodo Cave (Site 5MT4789), Dos Cuartos House (Site 5MT2174), Calmate Shelter (Site 5MT4651), and DTA Site (Site 5MT5361). The remaining 12 sites were investigated through surface collection, occasionally augmented by shovel scraping or...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Patrick Hogan.

LeMoc Shelter (Site 5MT2151) is a small, stratified site on the south-facing slope of the Dolores River canyon. During excavation of the shelter by the Dolores Archaeological Program, the remains of five successive Anasazi occupations that date to between A.D. 750 and 950 were discovered. During the earliest documented occupation, which dates to the late Sagehill Subphase (A.D. 750-780), the shelter appears to have been occupied year-round by a nuclear family or small extended family. The next...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rick Norwood. Charles Bull.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Chandler E Fitzsimons.

This paper presents the preliminary analysis of material recovered from a 1910-1940's domestic midden. Located in Fort Davis, Texas, a former frontier military community, this assemblage dates to roughly forty years after the fort’s closure. The paper will address how the removal of army resources and personnel at the turn of the century lead to a change in community demographics and, in turn, resulted in new modes of economic production and consumption. Moreover, the removed location of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Victor Thompson. C. Fred T. Andrus.

Two of the most salient anthropological questions regarding southeastern shell ring sites are related to the season(s) that they were occupied and whether or not the deposits represent monumental constructions and/or feasting remains. This paper addresses these questions through the analysis of growth band of clams (Mercenaria spp.) (N = 620) and stable oxygen isotope ratios of clam and oyster shells (Crassostrea virginica) (N = 58) at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring complex located on the Georgia...

IMAGE Stephanie Barrante. Jessica Hughes. Victoria Hawley. Donna Ochenrydeb.

Images illustrating architectural and other features uncovered at Fort St. Joseph from 2002 to 2010.

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Final catalog of bag contents and boxes that are in curation. This is organized by bag number and states the box number where the bag is located and the material contained in the bag.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Virginia Popper. Lisa Klug.

The analysis of botanical remains from the Lake Elsinore site (Riv-2798) was conducted to provide evidence of plant use by the prehistoric inhabitants of this site. Riv-2798 is an open air site located at the bottom of a small hill on the banks of the outlet channel for Lake Elsinore, Riverside County, California (Grenda, personal communication, 1995). Radiocarbon dates are not yet available for this site, however a preliminary analysis by the site’s investigators suggests that the site was...

PROJECT Michael Nassaney.

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is a collaboration between Western Michigan University and the City of Niles, MI to investigate, interpret, and preserve the physical remains of the site of Fort St. Joseph, a mission, garrison, and trading post complex occupied from 1691 to 1781 by the French then British. Since its inception, the Project has cultivated a robust program of public archaeology to involve and invest the community in the preservation of the site and more generally, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jackson Huang. Erin C. Rodriguez.

This paper focuses primarily on the depositional processes of a historical midden site through a geoarchaeological analysis of an early 1900s domestic midden from Fort Davis Texas. Microscopic investigation has traditionally been used to interpret pre-history archaeological sites with poor emphasis on historical contexts. The examination of Fort Davis’ 2014 collection of heavy-fraction artifacts and soil micromorphological samples will show how geoarchaeology can be used in historical settings...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Charcoal recovered from a small, but well-developed midden with a high concentration of rock and charcoal in the Cal City Cave, CA-KER-517, was submitted for identification. This site is located within the corporate boundaries of California City in southeastern Kern County, California. It consists of a small rock shelter that is believed to have functioned as a work station for the processing of faunal material in the historic/protohistoric time period. Charcoal was identified to provide...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larry L. Leach.

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Images of berm, screening of the berm, and surrounding area.

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Paleographic reconstruction for the early Holocene (10,500-7200 B.P.)

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Paleographic reconstruction for the late Holocene (3440-50 B.P.)

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Paleographic reconstruction for the middle Holocene (7200-3440 B.P.)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Donn Grenda.

Project director field notes and correspondence. Some notes relate to post field activities.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Johnny Faulkner.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Sediment samples from midden deposits at Site CA-SBA-530 in southern California were floated to recover macrofloral remains. Six charred botanic samples from the midden deposits also were analyzed. Site CA-SBA-530 contains several midden deposits representing different occupations of the site. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the various site occupants.

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Mapping data that produced the final field map. This includes stadia rod and transit readings and the northing and easting of various units and features. Some of the notes are presented in tables.

DOCUMENT Citation Only S. Andrew Wise.

Archaeologists occasionally find inconstant artifact assemblages between sites that appear similar. These variations in artifact frequency and diversity can hinder efforts to establish a one-to-one correlation between artifacts and cultural behaviors. However, coastal shell middens can provide important information regarding past habitation and social organization. By using shell and artifact distribution data, this research examines how Woodland cultures utilized coastal sites between 1000 B.C....