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Obsidian samples from a variety of sites across Northwest Wyoming have been sourced using X-ray fluorescence and analyzed in order to determine the importance of a relatively unheard of source from the Cougar Pass region of the Absaroka Mountain Range. Artifacts manufactured with obsidian nodules from Cougar Pass have been found in archaeological contexts across Northwest Wyoming, extending as far as a presently unknown kilometer range from their source. The wide range of specimens from a...
The Boom and Bust of Tungsten Mining: A View from the Johnson Lake Mine (2015)
The Johnson Lake Mine was an early twentieth century tungsten mine. It is located above 10,000 feet on the eastern slope of the South Snake Range in east-central Nevada in what is now Great Basin National Park. The mine was in operation from 1908 – 1950. It was owned and operated by Alfred "Timberline" Johnson, Thomas Dearden, Sr. and Joseph Dearden. This presentation will discuss the recorded historic features and artifacts with a brief synopsis of the capitalism of tungsten mining as it...
Divergent Histories: Prehistoric Use of Alpine Habitats in the Toquima and Toiyabe Ranges, Central Great Basin (2015)
Alpine villages are extremely rare in the Great Basin. To date, villages located at elevations above 10,000 ft. are only known to occur in the White Mountains and the Toquima Range. Demographic forcing and climatic change has been used to explain the existence of these villages, but these propositions do not identify more specific selective pressures that led to the establishment of high-elevation villages in some ranges but not others. Comparison of artifact distributions and environmental...
Dynamic Cultural Landscapes: Testing an Alpine Archaeological Probability Model for Efficacy in the Northern Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness of Wyoming and Montana (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 tests the efficacy of an established alpine archaeological site probability model by applying it to the alpine regions of the Northern Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (NABW) of Wyoming and Montana. Created by Paul Burnett and Lawrence Todd, the model was specifically designed for the southern portions of the greater alpine region of the Greater...
High Elevation Land Use in the Cougar Pass Region of the Absaroka Mountains of Northwest Wyoming (2018)
Historically, high elevations have been considered as peripheral to past human cultures. Indeed, high elevation areas are somewhat marginal given their increased energy demands and generally low productivity; yet, archaeological evidence shows that human use of high altitudes reaches far into prehistory. Here I present an analysis of human land use through time and its relationship to major environmental and climatic shifts to determine the conditions under which humans make more or less...
Research, Relevance and Resources; Academic Partners on National Forests (2016)
Since the establishment of the US Forest Service in 1905 academic partnerships have been essential to the management and understanding of the cultural resources the agency oversees. After the National Historic Preservation Act was passed in 1966 the Forest Service gradually began developing its own program to manage cultural resources changing the relationship between the agency and researchers. This paper explores the changing ways academic research has influenced the Forest Service and how...
Summer on the Range: Excavations at a High Elevation Cattle Line Camp in Western Colorado (2022)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In 2018 Alpine Archaeological Consultants, Inc. excavated a 1912 to 1933 historical cattle line camp site on the Dolores Plateau in northern Dolores County, Colorado. The line camp is part of the Bankston Spring site which is a large multiple component site that dates from the Archaic and into more recent history. The line camp is...