Starch residue analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Amanda Rankin.

It has been suggested that high elevations are highly demanding environments, poor in resources, and only heavily used to procure high ranked animal prey. In the Great Basin Steward’s work with the Shoshone and Piute showed that valley and foothill resources dominated subsistence patterns with high altitude resources playing only a minor role for hunting. In the Great Basin and Rocky Mountains however, there is evidence of high altitude residential sites in both the White Mountains of eastern...