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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jo McDonald.

This is an abstract from the "Painting the Past: Interpretive Approaches in Global Rock Art Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Dampier Archipelago (including Burrup Peninsula) is one of Australia’s most significant rock art provinces. Recently nominated to the World Heritage List as the Murujuga Cultural Landscape, this talk describes efforts which are being made to directly-date this deep time rock art sequence, by innovative direct...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eva Hulse. Jason Cowan. Kristen Heasley.

This is an abstract from the "The Second-Oldest Sites in the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Portland Basin in Oregon, organic material is rarely preserved, archaeological features are often thoroughly bioturbated, and historic wildfires have introduced abundant charcoal into the soil matrix that is not directly tied to human settlement. Dates must often be estimated without the aid of radiocarbon analysis. This...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Karligkioti. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "The Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Current Research and Insights" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The abundance in textual sources and richness of its archaeological record make Athens one of the most studied Greek cities during Classical Antiquity. However, research has focused principally on Athens, leaving much of the periphery of the Classical world largely unexplored. Scholars have mostly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Brown. Michael Wiant.

This is an abstract from the "The Village, the Region, and Beyond: Stuart Struever (1931–2022) and the Lower Illinois River Valley Research Program" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. By 1972 the exposure of deeply buried occupation surfaces was a novelty in the Midwest. In Illinois, deep-site excavation experience was limited to the Modoc Rock Shelter exploration. Koster offered a new opportunity for a deep-site exposure, but one that raised...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Reynolds. Thomas Palazzolo. Ashley Lemke. John O'Shea. Sarah Saad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology is a subdiscipline of archaeology that deals with the discovery of ancient submerged landscapes. In Europe alone over 3,000 submerged ancient sites are recorded. While there is an increased number of submerged sites in North America, the emphasis has on the study of shipwrecks and historical questions related to nautical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Corl. Kristina Solis. Robert J. Hard. Michelle Carpenter.

A series of mortuary sites on the Texas Coastal Plain provide a dataset useful for analyzing demographic change through examination of age profiles. Other archaeological data suggest that populations peaked during the Late Archaic period (4000-800 BP) and sharply declined during the Late Prehistoric period (800-350 BP). Analysis of the ratio of adults to young individuals has been used to identify rapid population growth among other populations. Hunter-gatherer groups living in the Texas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mya Welch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 10,000 and 5,000 years ago, sea level of the Apalachee Bay, Gulf of Mexico was roughly 20m lower than today, extending the paleoshoreline nearly 75km further south and providing significantly more habitable land for prehistoric populations (Faught, 2004). Although many submerged sites along the PaleoAucilla river channel have been surveyed, the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Scott Rivas.

In conjunction with multi-scalar integrative faunal research on the use of aquatic resources by Archaic period hunter-gatherers, the EAFWG has been required to focus on both environmental and demographic reconstructions for both specific locales and larger regions within the interior of the North American Eastern Woodlands. Although the importance of social and ethnic factors has increasingly been recognized, both environmental change and variability and human population growth and aggregation...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erin Ray. Nadia Neff. Viorel Atudorei. Keith Prufer.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The agricultural-demographic transition highlights a positive correlation between increasing consumption of agricultural products and population. However, this correlation varies regionally. In Eurasia, agriculture and population growth coincide with increasing sedentism hypothesized to drive population change. In the Amazon, agriculture and sedentism...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brady Kelsey. Steven Brandt. Elisabeth Hildebrand. Gary Stinchcomb.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excavations of the Late Pleistocene levels at Mochena Borago Rockshelter in SW Ethiopia, dating >50–35ka, have revealed one of the densest concentrations of modified ochre in eastern Africa. Here we consider technological variations of ochre and associated processing tools through studies of use-wear, trace elemental signatures, and artifact spatial...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Luis Flores-Blanco. Lucero Cuellar. Mark Aldenderfer. Charles Stanish. Randy Haas.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The origins of Andean archery technology and its impact on social organization remain unclear. This analysis uses metric data from 1,179 projectile points from the Lake Titicaca Basin, 11–1 ka, to identify the timing of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rhode.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents a history of prehistoric plant use based on starches recovered from plant processing tools at O’Malley Shelter, Lincoln County, Nevada. O’Malley Shelter (26LN418) is an important archaeological site in the Clover Mountains near the Great Basin’s southern margin, with an 8,000-year long record of occupation. Extraction and analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ahlrichs.

Avocational collectors in Wisconsin have collected thousands of copper artifacts over the last century and half. This copper has gone largely unexamined by the professional archaeological community. The archaeological literature is therefore silent on basic facts such as size ranges and changes in use of the raw material from society to society. Copper entered the economic systems of these Archaic Wisconsin societies as an innovative, but ultimately redundant raw material given the existence of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Iris Puryear. Cate Garcia.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Decades of archaeological work at Flowerdew Hundred, a tobacco plantation located in the Chesapeake region of Virginia, have focused primarily on its 17th-century occupation by English elites, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans. This research perspective has obfuscated the presence and impact of the Weanock (a Late Woodland people situated in the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Aviva Cormier. Jane Buikstra.

This is an abstract from the "The Bioarchaeology of the Phaleron Cemetery, Archaic Greece: Current Research and Insights" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Phaleron cemetery is most well-known for the archaic burials of 79 young men who had been shackled, probably violently executed, and interred in three trenches. However, there are 80 additional individuals whose mortuary contexts fall outside expected forms, now categorized as “distinctive,”...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Meindl. Michelle Bebber.

This is an abstract from the "Defining and Measuring Diversity in Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Old Copper Culture (OCC) (4000-1000 B.C.) of the Lake Superior Region of North America features a wide variety of utilitarian tools manufactured from native copper. Here, we assess the technological diversity of copper projectile points found in the region spanning Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota U.S.A., as well as artifacts found...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amy Reid.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Skiles Collection, named for landowner Jack Skiles, consists of Indigenous, Euro-American, and Asian-American cultural material from the Lower Pecos Canyonlands Archaeological region. Beginning in the late 1930s, the Skiles Family amassed an exceptional collection of cultural material...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrzej Rozwadowski. Janusz Woloszyn.

This is an abstract from the "Technique and Interpretation in the Archaeology of Rock Art" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Toro Muerto, situated in Arequipa Region in southern Peru, consists of over 2.5 thousand stone blocks covered with petroglyphs, which makes this site unique not only in Peru but also in South America. In this presentation we outline the current results of a new project which aims to document the whole site. This includes...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nasland Engineering.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Vierra.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology on the Edge(s): Transitions, Boundaries, Changes, and Causes" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The American Southwest is an arid landscape that has experienced dynamic shifts in climate between dry and wet periods. Researchers have traditionally focused on the effects of drought conditions on farming communities. They often suggested that these extreme conditions dictated the regional displacement of...

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Faunal data from Dust Cave Alabama, Renee B. Walker dissertation (University of Tennessee, 1998). Archaic deposits from Dust Cave date between and 5,200 years ago with four distinct Archaic occupations. These include the Early Side-Notched and Kirk Stemmed components (Early Archaic), and the Eva/Morrow Mountain component and Seven Mile Island phase (Middle Archaic). The preservation, and subsequent recovery, of faunal material at the site is exceptional, with an abundance of small fish and...

DATASET Renee Walker.

Early and Middle Archaic faunal data from Dust Cave Alabama, Renee B. Walker dissertation (University of Tennessee, 1998). Archaic deposits from Dust Cave date between and 5,200 years ago with four distinct Archaic occupations. These include the Early Side-Notched and Kirk Stemmed components (Early Archaic), and the Eva/Morrow Mountain component and Seven Mile Island phase (Middle Archaic). The preservation, and subsequent recovery, of faunal material at the site is exceptional, with an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Black. David Kilby.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Eagle Nest Canyon joins the Rio Grande at Langtry, Texas, in the western Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Despite its relatively short length, this storied box canyon contains a dense archaeological record representing at least thirteen millennia of human activity and has seen intermittent archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga. Dennis Lawler.

The Midwest has the earliest and possibly richest record of dog burials in North America. New direct AMS 14C dates on Archaic-period canids from the region confirms this pattern (Koster Horizon XI, 10,130-9680 cal BP; Stilwell II, 10,200-9630 cal BP; Rodgers Shelter, 9000-8600 cal BP; Rodgers Shelter 8560-8210 cal BP). We use 2D and 3D geometric morphometrics to assess variability in the morphology of wild and domesticated Canidae from midwestern Archaic assemblages (10,000-6000 cal BP). Health...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Keith Prufer. Dolores Piperno. Nadia Neff. Mark Robinson. Douglas Kennett.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeobotany of Early Peopling: Plant Experimentation and Cultural Inheritance" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Despite a century of research into the lives and diets of the northern neotropics’ earliest populations, our understanding of food production and consumption and its impact on diet quality remains relatively impoverished. We present a first view of data generated from archaeological sites in the Maya...