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Phase II Archaeological Investigations Within the Northern Border Pipeline Expansion / Extension Project Corridor: Harper, Iowa, to the Mississippi River (1991)
This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.
Phase II Archaeological Testing of Eight Sites at the Poinsett Electronic Combat Range, Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter County South Carolina (2005)
This Phase II archaeological study dealt with eight sites (38SU155, 38SU192, 38SU199, 38SU233, 38SU290, 38SU292, 38SU293, and 38SU294) at the Poinsett Electronic Combat Range (PECR) of Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter County, South Carolina. The sites include one historic dwelling (38SU155) and seven prehistoric camps located in the vicinity of Big Bay. Phase II investigations at each site included systematic shovel testing followed by test unit excavations to delineate site dimensions and artifact...
Pictograph Iconography and Geologic Realities at 41VV124 The White Shaman Mural (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The White Shaman Mural, a Pecos River style (PRS) rock art site located in a Pecos River tributary canyon, is dated from 2420 ± 80 to 1460 ± 80 RCYBP (radiocarbon years before present). At that time, prehistoric indigenous hunter-gatherers inhabited this semi-arid environment and traveled seasonally to obtain resources. Research indicates the mural represents...
Placemaking in Southwestern Oregon (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study takes a Geographic Information Systems approach to understanding the role of place in determining settlement patterns in southwestern Oregon. Persistent use of settlement locations transforms these spaces to places, or locations where memory and identity become embedded. In order to test how this phenomena influences settlement location, a site...
Plant Fiber and Foraging Tools in the Eastern Great Basin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Cordage, Yarn, and Associated Paraphernalia" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis of the plant fiber from eastern Great Basin sites show a pattern of continuity in their selection and use over time, suggesting they were regularly preferred for specific tools. Archaeologists currently have no quantitative explanation of what may have influenced forager fiber choices. Explaining why a forager has chosen a particular...
Plant Use at 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. Bonneville Estates Rockshelter is a stratified multicomponent site located on the former highstand of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin. It contains well-dated and well-preserved record of human occupation through the last 13,000 years. Here I report on dietary plant remains retrieved from nearly 140 dated archaeological features...
Plants and Steppe Hunter-Gatherers in Central Patagonia: A Case Study from the Aisén region (45° S, Chile) (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Histories of Human-Nature Interactions: Use, Management, and Consumption of Plants in Extreme Environments" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research on the use of plants among hunter-gathering groups has made visible the use of a predictable and ubiquitous resource that is locally and seasonally available, and that count with multiple potential uses. Recent studies at the Baño Nuevo 1 site (Aisén, Chile) have revealed...
The Pleistocene-Holocene Transition in the Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys of the Mid-South United States (2015)
The Tennessee and Cumberland River Valleys have a rich history of archaeological research and provide a valuable dataset for exploring the relationship between climate and culture during the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In this paper, we provide an overview of available archaeological and environmental data in this area, and argue that there were significant changes in diet, technological organization, and landscape use that are most likely related to environmental change. Home to some of...
Polychrome Perplexities: The Painted Rock Art of the Southern Black Hills (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Role of Rock Art in Cultural Understanding: A Symposium in Honor of Polly Schaafsma" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Infrared, ultraviolet, and D-Stretch imaging has provided a more complete view of a complex set of black and red painted rock from the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. The painted designs include bison, bears, other quadrupeds, humans, net-, web-, and gridlike figures, atlatl darts, hand- and...
Population in the Middle Atlantic Archaic: The Middle Atlantic Transect Approach (2018)
Middle Atlantic archaeology is unique due the tremendous ecological and cultural diversity present within a relatively small, compressed region. The ecological transect model has been widely applied in regional archaeological research for the past thirty years. It is essentially a landscape approach that traverses several major physiographic provinces to encompass the range a discrete and interconnected cultural activities across a broad region. This work employs the transect model to explore...
¿Por Qué (No) Los Dos?: Investigating Simultaneous Blade and Flake Industries at the Ortiz Site, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent analysis of the lithic assemblage from the Ortiz site, an early (2340 cal BC–cal AD 310) habitation site in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, has revealed the persistent parallel manufacture of blade and expedient flake technologies, with an average of 16.1% of the flaked stone assemblage consisting of blades. While other early Puerto Rican lithic assemblages...
Portable X-ray Fluorescence of Lower Pecos Mobiliary Art: New Insights Regarding Chaîne Opératoire, Context, and Chronology (2018)
Painted pebbles are the primary mobiliary art found in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas and northern Mexico. Previous studies of these artifacts have focused on stylistic variation of the imagery and interpretation of the role these artifacts played within Lower Pecos societies. The focus of this study is the use of portable X-ray fluorescence on Lower Pecos painted pebbles to conduct elemental analyses, providing insight into the chaîne opératoire of painted pebble production....
Postcards in the Landscape: Considering Lower Pecos Pictographs as Nahua Pilgrimage Destinations (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Manifesting Movement Materially: Broadening the Mesoamerican View" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chicomoztoc, the place of seven caves, from which the Nahua ancestors emerged, appears in many central Mexican pictorial manuscripts as a place of origin and one of pilgrimage. Like the mythical Aztlan, its location has not been confirmed; perhaps several such places served different groups of people. However, recent...
Postmarital Residence Patterns of Late Archaic Hunter-Gatherers from the Loma Sandia (41LK28) Site, Live Oak County, Texas: An Analysis Using 87Sr/86Sr (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists researching hunter-gatherers in the Texas Coastal Plains (TCP) and Central Texas have noted differences between sexes in carbon and nitrogen isotope studies. One explanation offered for these differences is due to mate exchange, specifically patrilocality. Evidence for hunter-gatherer patrilocality in Texas also comes from the ethnographic...
Potential Early Connections Between the Greater Antilles and Lower Central America in the Light of Toponomastic Analysis (2016)
This presentation looks at the paterns of interaction in the Western Caribbean at the time of early migrations onto the islands, with a special focus on the potential long-distance connection between Lower Central America and the Greater Antilles indicated by several important observations: a recent comparative study of ancient DNA from the pre-contact site of Canímar Abajo in western Cuba; circulation of some plant species (e.g., pollo maize; Zamia); the practice of dental modification on...
The Potomac Gorge (2018)
The Potomac Gorge is a canyon through which the river passes through the Falls Zone from Great Falls down to Washington, D.C. Ever since John Smith met Indians fishing below Little Falls in 1608, it has been widely assumed that the Potomac Gorge was a prime Native American fishing spot. The numerous prehistoric archaeological sites along this stretch of the river have often been interpreted as fishing stations. However, re-examination of the archaeological record in the Gorge, carried out as...
Prairies and Meadows: A Continuous Record of Upland Settlement in SW 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. Recent research in SW Washington State has provided evidence for intensive use of upland prairies and meadows by Native people. People visited prairies and meadows seasonally in order to take advantage of diverse resources in grasslands, forests, and streams. These sites provide the longest continuous record of settlement in SW Washington State, beginning in...
Pre-Contact Land Use of the Gallinas Mountains, Lincoln County, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. SWCA Environmental Consultants is conducting heritage resource surveys across 4,388 acres of lands managed by the Cibola National Forest. These surveys will aid the U.S. Forest Service and the Claunch-Pinto Soil and Water Conservation District of Mountainair, New Mexico, in completing landscape-level treatments designed to protect an unburned forested...
Preceramic Cultures of the Basin of Mexico (2018)
The period from early peopling until the appearance of pottery in the basin of Mexico is poorly known despite its importance to know the emergence of the early sedentary communities and the development of the first political centers in the area. This study summarizes the state of knowledge about hunter-gatherer communities in the basin and presents recent studies that have allowed us to expand our knowledge of this period, particularly for the so-called Archaic period. We highlight the profusion...
Preceramic Occupations in the Valley of Oaxaca and the Southern Isthmus (2018)
Surveys and excavations during the past 12 years in the Valley of Oaxaca and the southern Isthmus of Tehuantepec provide new data on lithic assemblages and settlement distributions in these Oaxaca regions and facilitate comparison with contemporaneous sites in central and southern Mexico.
Predictive Modeling of Early Archaic Bolen Site Distribution in Northwestern Florida, USA (2018)
Site visibility has long been an issue for late Pleistocene/early Holocene research in the southeastern United States, partially due to modern forest cover and partially due to large portions of the Southeast having been submerged by more than 80 meters of sea level rise. However, a large number of Late Paleoindian/Early Archaic Bolen artifacts have been discovered in Jefferson and Taylor counties in northern Florida, including dozens from underwater sites that were inundated...
Prehistoric and Historic Settlement in the Pine Creek Drainage, North-Central Oregon (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located between the Great Basin and the Columbia Plateau region, north-central Oregon is a region of cultural and geographic boundaries. Full coverage pedestrian survey was conducted in the eastern Pine Creek drainage basin to record prehistoric and historic sites in order to understand how past people used, and lived on, the landscape. Several sites and...
Prehistoric Land Use in the Upper San Simon Valley and Chiricahua Mountains: A View from the Finley and Sally Richards Projectile Point Collection (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Community Matters: Enhancing Student Learning Opportunities through the Development of Community Partnerships" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Finley and Sally Richards collection represents the largest and most complete collection of projectile points documented from the remote corners of southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico. The collection, donated to the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society...
Prehistoric Tool Stone Acquisition and Use in the Central Mojave Desert (2018)
Diverse rocks of the Precambrian to the Late Cenozoic are exposed across the greater Mojave Desert Region. In the central Mojave, locations with concentrations of knapable materials are prevalent. Most of these sources are deflated alluvial fan deposits; less than five percent are outcrops. Over the last 13,000 years people have been using the area, percussion biface reduction dominated at both the material extraction sites and habitation and special activity sites. Igneous materials were...