Archaic (Other Keyword)
176-200 (574 Records)
Much past research on the development of Archaic ideological complexity in eastern North America has focused primarily on ritualism and ceremony related to mortuary behaviors. Less attention has been given to ritualism within what is commonly thought of as domestic contexts and without overt mortuary ceremonialism or monumental architecture. The recent discovery of puddled clay architecture (floors) and associated features at the Burrell Orchard site (33LN15) in northeast Ohio provides new...
Excavations at Inspector Island, Newfoundland, Canada (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Inspector Island is a large, multi-component site located in Notre Dame Bay, on the island of Newfoundland, Canada. The site was first discovered and excavated by Ralph Pastore of Memorial University in the 1980s, and then revisited and re-excavated this past summer by the two lead authors. Excavations indicate a large Maritime Archaic habitation site...
Excavations at the Crane Dune Site (41CR61), a Prehistoric Habitation, Burial, and Lithic Cache Site in Crane County, Texas (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Crane Dune site (41CR61) was identified by AmaTerra archaeologists during a survey for the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) prior to widening Highway 385 in Crane County, Texas. The site consists of at least two components (Late Prehistoric and Late Archaic) centered on stabilized sand dunes. The cultural occupations span a 40-50 cm thick dark...
Exchange and Interaction in Proto-Mesoamerica: A Comparison of Late Archaic and Early Formative Interregional Networks (2018)
Across much of Mesoamerica, the transition from Archaic to Formative occurred essentially simultaneously at 1800±100 BC. The earliest sedentary, ceramic-using villages occurred in clusters, but the clusters themselves were widely dispersed. They appeared in a variety of environmental settings, and they were surrounded by lands that were either empty or still inhabited by low-visibility/low-density populations. Given such patterns, it is far from obvious what factors would explain the...
Expedient Lithic Procurement at the Katterfeld Quarry-Workshop of Central-West Patagonia (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The study of toolstone procurement in Patagonia is biased in favor of high-quality exotic materials—chiefly obsidian—often transported over large distances as heavily curated artifacts. Lesser-quality sources however may be important in the technological behavior at smaller scales (e.g., basin, subregion). The...
Experimental Construction of Hunter-Gatherer Residential Features, Mobility, and the Costs of Occupying "Persistent Places" (2019)
This is an abstract from the "More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Temporal and caloric costs associated with building common hunter-gatherer residential features – housefloors, housepits, storage pits, rock rings, and various types of wickiups – are presented based on experimental construction of these types of features. For subsurface features, excavation rates and...
An Exploration of Late-Terminal Archaic Domestic Architecture and Settlement Patterns in Southern Connecticut (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations have resulted in evidence that suggests a shift in settlement patterns occurred in Connecticut during the Late and Terminal Archaic periods from interior wetlands to large river drainages. While sites dating to the Late Archaic period are common throughout the New England region, the archaeological record concerning...
Exploring Archaic Technological Innovations: Comparative Functional Efficacy of Copper and Stone Projectile Points (2023)
This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Archaic period in North America was a time of technological innovation and experimentation with new tool materials. Conical copper projectile points appeared in North America during this time and recent radiocarbon evidence shows that they were in use by 7,500 years ago....
Exploring Pre-Contact Pithouse Features and Artifact Assemblage at the Amoskeag West Bank Site (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of analysis conducted using lithic and ceramic artifacts from the Amoskeag West Bank site (27-HB-079) in Manchester New Hampshire, focusing on the evidence for a pithouse feature uncommon in the regional archaeological record. A targeted data recovery by IAC in 2022 yielded an assemblage of 961 Pre-Contact Native American...
Exploring Taphonomic and Contextual Comparability in Eastern Archaic Faunal Datasets (2016)
The Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group (EAFWG), established with funding from NSF, is preserving Archaic period faunal databases from interior portions of the Eastern Woodlands in tDAR (the Digital Archaeological Record) in order to undertake data integration at multiple scales that examines the use of aquatic resources across time and space during the Archaic. A major initial question about our existing datasets is how comparable they are taphonomically and contextually. Protocols for...
Exploring the Orange Period in Southern Florida’s Inland Tree Islands (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Orange period (6000-3000 BP) communities in Florida have been defined by the manufacture of fiber-tempered ceramics within eastern Florida and have a well defined chronology. Orange period communities engaged physically with the landscape through shell and sand terraforming and community mobility. Contrastingly, the Archaic period in south Florida is not...
Extended Temporal Overlaps of Atlatl and Bow Technologies in the Great Basin and Other Parts of North America (2024)
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. There is a large literature that discusses the prehistoric introduction of the bow and arrow into the various regions of North America. The dates of the introduction vary greatly. Erroneously, it is sometimes assumed that...
Fabrics of the South American Desert Coast: The Study of the Marine Hunter-Gatherer's Plant Fiber Technology in the Atacama Desert (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Textile Tools and Technologies as Evidence for the Fiber Arts in Precolumbian Societies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research aims to study the earliest fabric artifacts made by marine hunter-gatherers who inhabited the Peru-Chile desert coast. Thanks to the aridity of this area, I use a remarkable amount of well-preserved plant-fiber materials, most belonging to the world’s oldest Chinchorro mummies buried...
Falcon Dam and the Archaeological Landscape Today (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Living Landscapes: Disaster, Memory, and Change in Dynamic Environments " session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Falcon dam and reservoir near Zapata, Texas, was completed in 1954 as a binational project for flood control of the Rio Grande by Mexico and the United States. Some archaeological projects were completed before the area was flooded, cemeteries were exhumed and moved to new areas outside of the high flood waters,...
Faunal Remains at the La Playa Archaeological site: Subsistence, Bone Artifacts, Dog Burials, and Bird Bundles (2024)
This is an abstract from the "13,000 Years of Adaptation in the Sonoran Desert at La Playa, Sonora" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. La Playa archaeological site is located at Boquillas Valley, Sonora, northwestern Mexico. Animal remains studied pertain to the Late Archaic/Early Agriculture period (1500/800 BC–AD 200). Their identification revealed different uses for animals as subsistence, bone artifacts, dog burials, and bird bundles. Although...
A Feasibility Analysis of Rock Art Recorded Thus Far for the Alexandria Project (2018)
The Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas is home to over 350 identified rock art sites depicting multiple styles, complexity, and intricacy. In 2017, Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center launched the Alexandria Project, a three year mission to revisit each known rock art site in Val Verde County and perform baseline documentation, with the aim to answer overarching questions requiring a large and consistent dataset. Our documentation methods utilize Structure from Motion 3D...
Filling in the Map: Object-Based Image Analysis and Its Potential for Shell Ring Identification on Hilton Head Island, SC (2018)
As a resource, the archaeological record is finite and remains largely incomplete. Within the context of Southeastern American archaeology, the incompleteness of the record can be seen in the study of shell rings. Many unidentified shell rings exist in the archaeological record, and their detection remains difficult – even with remote sensing techniques – due to the fact that many are located under heavily forested canopies. However, with the use of object-based image analysis (OBIA), such...
Final Report of a Phase II Archaeological Investigation of Site 13Ce18 (1993)
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Fire and Vegetation Dynamics: Blazing the Trail in Pre-contact Southern New England (2018)
The concept that Native Americans were using fire for wide spread vegetation control and subsistence procurement during the pre-contact period in Southern New England has long been excepted as common practice, leading to changes in the landscape and then settlement patterns. However, save for the accounts of early explorers and colonists, whose goal was to solicit the "new land" as a familiar landscape and not an unknown wilderness, there is little supporting scientific evidence. This paper...
Fire-Cracked Rock: Domestic Life and Subsistence Practice, a Case Study in Coast Salish Territory (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Two of the most common features that frequently appear in many Northwest Coast archaeological sites are pit ovens and rock griddles with abundant remains of rock heating elements or fire-cracked rocks (FCR). Ethnohistorical and ethnographic sources have provided documentation of the different types of culinary traditions and...
A First Anishinabe Archaeological Field School in Ottawa (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first Anishinabe archaeological field school took place in Ottawa, Canada in 2021. It was triggered by the recovery of a pre-contact stone knife during an excavation in 2019 at the Centre Block on Parliament Hill. Funded by Indigenous Services Canada’s Strategic Partnership Initiative, the project was led by the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn First Nation...
First Foragers on the Upper Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee: Transitional Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Lithic Technology at Rock Creek Mortar Shelter (40Pt209) (2018)
We analyze lithic flaking debris from transitional terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene layers at Rock Creek Mortar Shelter, a multicomponent site on the Upper Cumberland Plateau (UCP), Pickett County, Tennessee. Blades, blade-like flakes, and two blade core fragments are among the lithics recovered from these contexts. Because these transitional-looking assemblages were recovered from early Holocene contexts, we believe they potentially represent groups of early Archaic peoples who were...
Fishing Features in the Mojave Desert and Beyond: Implications at Ivanpah Dry Lake, NV (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Mojave Desert is a host of many now desiccated Holocene lakes. Fishing features are rare along these lakeshores, but they do occur. Recent investigations at Ivanpah Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert along the California/Nevada border have revealed a complex of fishing features including fishing platforms and fishing circles, connecting this area to the...
Fishing, Shellfish Collecting, Hunting and Planting from Late Preceramic to Initial Period: A Case Study from Huaca Nagea, Viru, North Coast of Peru (2018)
By studying fauna and botanic remains unearthed from Huaca Negra Archaeological Project, this presentation seeks to understand subsistence system and daily life in Late Preceramic Period, and how it might have changed in later Initial Period. Huaca Negra is a fishing village located in the northwest of the Virú Valley and is 1.2 kilometers from the current shoreline. The site was occupied between 5,000-3,200 CalBP, from Late Preceramic Period to Initial Period, which witnessed the transitions...
Flaked Stone Artifacts from the San Juan and Cutter Laterals of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project: A Multivocal Analysis of the San Juan Basin as a Cultural Landscape" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of a lithic analysis of several archaeological sites subjected to data recovery efforts by PaleoWest within the San Juan Lateral and Cutter Lateral of the Navajo Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP). Three broad reduction strategies were identified...