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This is an abstract from the "People, Climate, and Proxies in Holocene Western North America" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Black Rock Desert Basin (HUC-6 160402) comprises the largest basin in northwest Nevada. Covering approximately three billion hectares, this basin contains the Quinn River drainage and the Black Rock and Smoke Creek playas. A radiocarbon database for the basin was assembled from the peer-reviewed and cultural resource...
Chronic Care in the Archaic Midwest: A Bioarchaeological Analysis of Healthcare Provisioning and Chronic Illness at Carrier Mills, IL (6000–3000 BC) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bioarchaeology has provided useful data on the relationship between subsistence patterns and human health. Yet few studies have considered healthcare provisioning in their models. The Bioarcheology of Care (BoC) is a four-stage method for empirically testing the possibility of healthcare provisioning in the past. Using the BoC, this study examines the...
Chronological Investigations at Coastal Shell Mounds, Southeastern Brazil (2018)
Shell mounds (sambaquis) are a focus of scientific interest in Brazilian archaeology since the 1950´s and also for interdisciplinary approaches. Located along the Brazilian coast from north to south, they present geographical and chronological variabilities. This paper discusses the chronological aspects of large and small sized shell mounds located on the coast of São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil. Radiocarbon dates suggest a long occupation of coastal hunter-gatherer-fisher groups spanning...
A Chronological Multisite Analysis of Shellfish Gathering Strategies in the King Range National Conservation Area, Northwest California (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The King Range National Conservation Area (KRNCA), located in southern Humboldt County, California, has been of particular interest to archaeologists since the 1970s. Early archaeological investigations in the KRNCA were crucial for developing regional North Coast chronologies and have yielded some of the oldest coastal sites north of San Francisco Bay....
Clay Resource Variability and Stallings Pottery Provenance along the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers (2018)
An understanding of the raw materials available to ancient potters is essential to archaeological considerations of vessel production and provenance. Consequently, the collection and analysis of raw clay samples has become a common component of such studies. This poster presents the results of compositional analyses of clays from along the Savannah and Ogeechee Rivers in Georgia and South Carolina via petrographic point-counting and neutron activation analysis (NAA). These analyses were...
Cobble Reduction and Tool Manufacturing along the Atlantic Coastal Plain: An Example from Prince George's County, Maryland (2018)
Cobble extraction and systematic lithic reduction activity areas are commonly found along the Atlantic coastal plain from the Early Archaic through Woodland periods. This process, typically involving the collection of high quality quartz and quartzite cobbles for processing, was documented 100 years ago by William Henry Holmes for the Piney Branch quarries in Washington, D.C. Excavations conducted by TRC at the Accokeek sand and gravel mine in 2014 identified 12 archaeological sites, two of...
Cobbling Together the Story of the Sinlahkein Valley: Prehistoric Land-Use Patterns in North Central Washington State (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The prehistory of the Sinlahekin Valley in north central Washington State is not well known. The archaeological record suggests the valley has attracted human occupants since the terminal Pleistocene. Various riparian, lacustrine, and mixed conifer ecosystems with the high elevation of surrounding mountain peaks have provided access to multifarious floral and...
Collecting Copper and Systematic Archaeological Analysis (2017)
The Old Copper Complex is represented by tens of thousands of copper artifacts recovered from locations widely scattered across the landscapes of the Western Great Lakes. Many of these artifacts continue to be collected and curated by avocational archaeology enthusiasts with characteristically poor contextual information. Traditional scholarly study of this complex has been restricted to the consideration of copper as a symbolically potent object and the construction of artifact typologies. ...
Colonizing the Edge: The Maritime Archaic Settlement and Occupation of Eastern Newfoundland (2018)
This paper presents evidence from a new Maritime Archaic habitation site located on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. Unlike the adjacent mainland of Labrador, very few Archaic habitation sites are known from the island, which makes this work critical to understanding Archaic settlement and social organization across the broader region. Excavations have produced hundreds of lithic artifacts and geomorphological data suggesting that a variety of subsistence and domestic activities occurred at...
Come Together Over Olcott: Recent Collaborative Investigations (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New Research into the Old Cordilleran" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Olcott Site, 45SN14, was first recorded nearly 60 years ago by Butler, and was fundamental in defining the Old Cordilleran Culture. Situated upstream from two named Stillaguamish villages, the Olcott site was a heavily utilized hunting area for thousands of years. Although the site has been disturbed through the years from farming and domestic...
Communal Trapping and Pinyon Exploitation in the Wovoka Wilderness (2018)
Heritage resources are recognized as a characteristic of the relatively new Wovoka Wilderness, created in 2014. Located in western Nevada’s Pine Grove Hills and in the Sierra Nevada’s rain shadow, resources relate to pine nut exploitation and communal artiodactyl hunting. The Wichman deer game trap still has standing corral posts, providing insights about the structure and function of Great Basin traps. Other game traps, blinds, rock rings, brush huts and bow stave trees are among the resources...
A Comparative Functional Analysis of Old Copper Culture Utilitarian Implements via Artifact Replication, Materials Testing, and Ballistic Analyses (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. North America's Old Copper Culture (4000-1000 B.C.) is a unique event in archaeologists’ global understanding of prehistoric metallurgic evolution. For millennia, Middle and Late Archaic hunter-gatherers around the North American Upper Great Lakes region regularly made utilitarian implements out of copper, only for these items to decline in prominence and...
Comparing Late Archaic Oyster Paleobiology and Volumetric Data from Different Sites along the South Atlantic Coast of Georgia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For millennia, Indigenous communities around the world have engaged in sustainable shellfish harvesting practices, though they are not without their challenges. Our new research integrates Bayesian radiocarbon modeling of shell ring and mound sites along with research on oyster paleobiology, and shell mound and midden volumetric data from multiple sites...
A Comparison of DNA Metabarcoding and Macroremains Analysis for Dietary Reconstruction using Coprolites from Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Coprolites are increasingly the subject of multiproxy analyses, but there is need to determine how the data, results, and interpretation of coprolite contents could differ depending on the methods chosen. This study presents a comparison of DNA metabarcoding and macroremains analysis performed on ten coprolites from Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada....
A comparison of macro botanical materials recovered from a multi-stratified site in west central Colorado: dating from 200-13,000BP (2016)
Over the last 9 summers we have conducted extensive excavations at a rock shelter (Eagle Point) located above the Gunnison River in west central Colorado. The deposits are laddered and the macro botanical fill from the features indicates that from the Paleo Period to the last occupation in 200BP similar plant resources were available and exploited. There are some differences. We want to briefly present the differences and similarities in plant exploitation from the Paleo (13,000BP) through the...
Conceptualizing Lithic Technological Variation in the Late Archaic Period: A Case Study of the Broadspear Assemblage Type (2018)
The archaeology of the Archaic Period in Northeastern North America is dominated by site-based research used as a springboard for discussing regional and pan-regional concepts and ideas. New results are often understood using paradigms created from these studies of singular origin. The present paper takes a different approach and discusses the author’s exploration of the broadspear lithic toolkit phenomenon across the Northeast. The collections-based study in question updates known datasets of...
Connecting Lithic Technology to Socio-economic Organization at Site 48PA551 (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New Multidisciplinary Research at 48PA551: A Middle Archaic (McKean Complex) Site in Northwest Wyoming" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The well-known Middle Archaic site, 48PA551, in northwestern Wyoming, was originally described as a single McKean Complex occupation. New data from 2018 now suggests the possibility of two occupations. This provides the opportunity to consider the connection between the organization...
Context-Free Archaeology: Private Collections, Data Quality Assessment, and Achieving Meaningful Research at Heavily Looted Sheltered Sites—A Case Study from West Texas (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. There is a long history of engaged amateurs providing the professional community with productive field efforts and artifact collections and of equal length is the controversy surrounding this work. The controversy, from the perspective of this talk, focuses on the issue of artifact context and the gap between the professional and amateur communities’ stances...
Contextualizing a Middle Archaic Component at the Cajamarca Site of Callacpuma in the Northern Peruvian Andes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northern Peruvian Andes is a traditionally understudied region in terms of the Andean Archaic and foraging/hunting societies in general. Our knowledge of the lithic periods in the north comes from disparate project reports and a very limited number of previous academic projects. Recent fieldwork at the site of Callacpuma in the Cajamarca Basin recovered...
Contextualizing Mid–Late Archaic Period Copper Complex Sites of the Western Great Lakes (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Interactions across the North American Midcontinent" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Frog Bay site (47BA60) is an intact, multicomponent archaeological site on the south shore of Lake Superior in Red Cliff, Wisconsin. Similar sites with significant Middle and Late Archaic components associated with the Old Copper Complex are known across the region, but Frog Bay is especially important because it is located within...
Cooperative Foraging Strategies and Technological Investment in the Western Great Basin: An Investigation of Archaeological Remains from the Winnemucca Lake Caves (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates evidence for the intensity and development of cooperative foraging strategies and investment in cordage and lithic technologies through time in the western Great Basin. It specifically addresses (1) when the region’s inhabitants invested in cordage technology used to create cooperation-oriented nets; (2) when the region’s inhabitants...
Copper Trade Network from Canada to South America (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pre-contact copper manufacture and trade in the Americas is poorly understood. To remedy this, over the last decade I have compiled a master database of over 85,000 pre-contact copper artifacts recovered from across the Americas, with source materials from museums, online, and private collections. I present an overview of the pre-contact copper industry in...
Cougar Creek Obsidian: Quarry Activity and Secondary Processing of a Minor Yellowstone Obsidian (2018)
The University of Montana conducted an archaeological survey of the Cougar Creek valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, in 2017. We mapped Cougar Creek obsidian outcrops, procurement areas, and secondary processing sites. XRF analysis of natural and cultural samples of the snowflake obsidian show a distinct chemical composition, even though its creation event is coeval with the famous Obsidian Cliff ca. 180,000 years ago (ca. 30 miles northeast). Due to its highly variable quality, Native...
A Critical Reevaluation of Radiocarbon Ages from the Berdoll Site (41TV2125), in Support of Refined Site Spatial and Contextual Analyses (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Bayesian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berdoll site is a deeply buried early Archaic campsite in the floodplain of Onion Creek in Travis County, Texas. It presents direct evidence of plant food processing at approximately 7606–8291 BP (conventional). Seventeen charred botanical remains including onion bulbs from earth ovens were submitted to two different radiocarbon labs for analysis. Considered...
Crop Management and Domestication in Eastern North America Inspired Both Cooperative Niche Construction and Territorial Competition (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Fifty Years of Fretwell and Lucas: Archaeological Applications of Ideal Distribution Models" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Much recent research has emphasized the importance of both within-group cooperation and between-group competition in the human past. We hypothesize that the shift from foraging to food production in Eastern North America provided novel ecological conditions which impacted human sociality in the...