Virgin Branch Puebloan (Other Keyword)
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The Yamashita sites are four Virgin Branch Puebloan sites in southern Nevada dating between the early Pueblo II (AD 1000-1050) and the Pueblo III period (AD 1200-1300). This poster summarizes the chipped stone tool and debitage data collected from the sites. The goals of this project were to examine what the chipped stone tool and debitage site assemblages revealed in regard to lithic technology organization. As sedentary settlements with a horticultural subsistence, the expectation was that...
Human Ecology and the Economy: Illogical Responses to Resource Risk in Southern Nevada (2015)
Research in the Virgin Branch Puebloan region indicates that during the middle Pueblo II Period there were strong socio-economic mechanisms linking the lowlands in southern Nevada to the uplands on the Arizona Strip. Ties between these areas are demonstrated by the presence of large numbers of ceramics produced in the uplands that have been recovered from lowland sites. Traditional ecological and economic models suggest that these trade networks may have been a way to reduce risk by...
Not Just any Stones: Virgin Branch Puebloan Sandstone Artifact Distribution on the Southern Shivwits Plateau (2016)
Throughout the summer of 2015, graduate students at the University of Nevada Las Vegas began the data mining of over 20 years of archaeological site forms pertaining to the prehistoric occupation of the southern portion of the Shivwits Plateau in Northern Arizona. This data, as collected by the National Park Service, was organized and placed into a geodatabase, allowing for the first time a thorough spatial investigation of artifact distributions associated with the upland Virgin Branch...