High Elevation Archaeology (Other Keyword)
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The alpine archaeological record above 3000m of Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem has received much less research attention than the adjacent plains, basins, and foothills. We have been working in an area of NW Wyoming where dense surface stone tool scatters, stone features (including some of the highest elevation habitation stone circles in the region) are associated with dwindling ice patches that have yielded both perishable artifactual material and an array of wood and bone that provides...
A CLG in the Wilderness: Cooperative Local Preservation in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2016)
The Shoshone National Forest (Northwestern Wyoming) encompasses some of the most remote, inaccessible landscapes in the continental United States with 56% (1.4 million acres) designated Wilderness. Documenting, researching, and managing heritage resources in these Wilderness areas provides special challenges. A fundamental issue is that little basic archaeological inventory has been conducted and working in the area is logistically difficult. Over the last several years, a partnership between...
Illuminating High Elevation Seasonal Occupational Duration in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Using Patterning in Lithic Raw Materials and Tool Types (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New and Ongoing Research on the North American Plains and Rocky Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, our understanding of high elevation landscapes’ potential contribution to prehistoric foragers’ seasonal rounds has developed significantly. This paper advances that understanding further by offering a method for estimating relative occupational duration through time for high elevation landscapes....