Paleoindian and Paleoamerican (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Meinekat. Christopher Miller. Kurt Rademaker.

A key question in the settlement of the Americas is how early forager groups adapted to different ecological settings while maintaining social connections. Quebrada Jaguay (QJ-280) on the Pacific Coast and Cuncaicha Rockshelter in the Andean highlands of southern Peru, exhibit very different subsistence adaptations, yet these sites were linked within a common settlement system in the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene. Here, we present the results of multidisciplinary geoarchaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren White.

This is an abstract from the "Far West Paleoindian Archaeology: Papers from the Next Generation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current geoarchaeological investigations of the Cerro Pedrogoso (Rocky Hill) site on Isla Cedros, Baja California, seek to provide a context for a Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation along the Pacific coast. Here, a rich assemblage of artifacts signals the presence of maritime coastal adaptations from at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Farrell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, Texas State University returned to Bone Bed 1 at Bonfire Shelter, a stratified rockshelter in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Val Verde County, Texas. Excavations in 2017 and 2018 confirmed the presence of Pleistocene fauna in the potentially earlier than Clovis deposits of Bone Bed 1. However, evidence of cultural activity was limited to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Moore. Mark J. Brooks. Albert C. Goodyear. Terry A. Ferguson. James K. Feathers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The White Pond Human Paleoecology Project is a collaborative effort between multiple institutions and researchers to study the geology, archaeology, and paleoecology of White Pond in South Carolina. Building on the seminal work of Watts (1980), this research seeks to: 1) derive the broader geologic context of the age and origin of White Pond and its fringing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only JD Lancaster. Teresa Wriston. Molly Casperson. Loren Davis. Jillian Maloney.

This is an abstract from the "Future Directions for Archaeology and Heritage Research in the Willamette Valley, Oregon" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The rivers of the Upper Willamette Valley and Western Cascades have drawn people to their resource rich banks since the Late Pleistocene with evidence of human habitation variably preserved as the watersheds evolved. Since the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) constructed the Willamette Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Newell.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the paleo-Tahkenitch River valley, situated on the Oregon coast, spans the early to late Holocene. Previous work at the Tahkenitch Landing site (35CS43) has demonstrated human response to postglacial marine transgression, transitioning from an inland river valley to a productive estuary in the early Holocene to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gustavo Politis. Cristian Favier Dubois. Pablo Messineo.

While most of the South American archaeological sites with extinct megamammals have produced Late Pleistocene ages (12,000 to 10,000 14C years BP), a few locations in the Pampas region have been dated well into the Early Holocene. Among these, Campo Laborde and La Moderna, two kill/scavenging and processing sites in the border of ancient swamps have provided 11 taxon dates (Megatherium americanum and Doedicurus clavicaudatus) which range between 9730 and 6550 14C years BP. Recent excavations in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole George.

The relationship between concave base and Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) projectile points in the Great Basin is not well-understood. They may represent sequential Late Pleistocene technologies, coeval technologies used by different ethnolinguistic populations, or different components within the same toolkits. To explore the latter possibility, I collected geochemical sourcing data for both types of artifacts recovered from three adjacent valleys in southeastern Oregon: (1) Warner Valley; (2)...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sarah Skinner.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The implementation of controlled experiments to identify and describe the behaviors of the past has been influential in understanding the material evidence left behind in the archaeological record. This in combination with the advent of new 3D scanning technologies and geometric morphometric analysis methods can be used to establish novel approaches to topics...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Renata Araujo. Mercedes Okumura. Astolfo Araujo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation contemplates the application of a method of analysis for the study of artifact shape named geometric morphometrics (GM). GM is a quantitative method originated in the biological sciences with a large application in evolutionary biology for the analysis of organismal form. Evolutionary archaeologists have been employing this approach to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stefania Wilks. Lisbeth Louderback.

This is an abstract from the "Hearths, Earth Ovens, and the Carbohydrate Revolution: Indigenous Subsistence Strategies and Cooking during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Geophytes store starch in underground organs considered highly valued food resources across many human societies. For example, Indigenous people in the northern Great Basin plan social activities around the seasonal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Austin Schraub. Esequiel Ortiz. Amy Thompson. Manda Adam. Fred Valdez Jr..

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In order to properly characterize and speculate about an ancient group and their apparent subsistence strategies, it is imperative to understand the landscape and regional ecology in which the group inhabited. The widespread adoption of Geographic Information Systems within archaeology has generated new avenues of research surrounding ancient...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nathaniel Kitchel.

This is an abstract from the "Case Studies in Toolstone Provenance: Reliable Ascription from the Ground Up" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Artifacts made of high-quality red chert appear regularly in terminal Pleistocene fluted point period sites throughout New England. Although archaeologists in the region often attribute this material to the Munsungun Lake geologic formation of northern Maine, no large-scale effort had been made to evaluate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik R. Otárola-Castillo.

The environment has a strong influence on the evolutionary ecology of hunter-gatherer foraging. Studies of prehistoric hunter-gatherers have often made hypotheses regarding the effect of climate on foraging strategies, but have rarely tested those hypotheses. The absence of explicit hypothesis testing has been partly due to a dearth of operationalized paleoenvironmental variables. Although paleoenvironmental reconstructions have been abundant, particularly those based on pollen, they have mostly...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Esequiel Ortiz. Austin Schraub. Manda Adam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the advent of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) technologies, GIS has allowed archaeologists to ask new questions of the archaeological record. The state of Texas has one of the richest archaeological records in North America from decades of work by professional, academic, and avocational archaeologists. Due to Texas’ rich archaeology record, ample...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ismael Sánchez-Morales. Kayla Worthey. Guadalupe Sánchez.

El Fin del Mundo is a Clovis site with multiple activity areas located in the Sonoran Desert of Northwest Mexico. The site contains the only gomphothere (Cuvieronius sp.)-Clovis association yet known in North America and has produced one of the largest assemblages of diagnostic Clovis stone tools south of the US-Mexico border. Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses indicate that Locality 1 preserves the remains of two gomphotheres, aged to approximately 2 years and 8-19 years old, and that...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joanne Gallagher. Michael Padian. Abby Barrios. Brianna King.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In November 2016, California passed the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (Proposition 64) to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. As a result, local county governments enacted their own county ordinances for Cannabis Legalization. In Humboldt County, in compliance with the Commercial Medical Marijuana Land Use Ordinance (CMMLUO) Cultivation Application...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daron Duke. Daniel Stueber.

This is an abstract from the "Current Perspectives on the Western Stemmed Tradition-Clovis Debate in the Far West" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Haskett represents an initiating point style in some parts of western North America. Radiocarbon dates suggest the earliest Haskett occupations were within the Clovis era, and Haskett shares several technological and geographic attributes that are more in kind with Clovis than with later stemmed styles....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Rosencrance.

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Haskett projectile points are well known in the Great Basin, but until recently their precise age has been considered poorly understood. Outside of the Great Basin, few researchers know of Haskett or consider it an important facet of the late Pleistocene cultural landscape. Archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daron Duke. Daniel Stueber.

This is an abstract from the "Late Pleistocene Stemmed Points across North America: Continental Questions and Regional Concerns" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Haskett projectile points were first defined in Idaho by Robert Butler in 1965 and have since figured variously into discussions of non-fluted lanceolate technology from the terminal Pleistocene. As one of a series of similar styles known by other names found along the western cordillera of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Pratt.

This is an abstract from the "Far West Paleoindian Archaeology: Papers from the Next Generation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several open-air sites with buried stemmed point technology have been discovered in the Harney Basin, southeastern Oregon. These sites provide a unique way to expand our current understanding of Western Stemmed lithic technology and subsistence practices from the late Pleistocene and early Holocene. The research presented...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Lou Larson. Marcel Kornfeld.

This is an abstract from the "Paleo Lithics to Legacy Management: Ruthann Knudson—Inawa’sioskitsipaki" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hell Gap site excavations began in 1959; however, the bulk of the investigations occurred between 1962 and 1966. This was early in Ruthann Knudson's archaeological career, but the site left a lasting impression on her, as it did on others, and she returned to write a chapter in the first monograph on Hell Gap. The...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alix Piven. Elizabeth Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "Hell Gap at 60: Myth? Reality? What Has It Taught Us?" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Research at Hell Gap has incorporated a number of technological innovations since investigations began at the site in the early 1960s. Recent advances in digital techniques have spurred the rise of digital documentation and analysis in the field. Low-cost yet high-quality photogrammetric softwares such as Agisoft Photoscan have...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tammy Rittenour. Heidi VanEtten. Judson Finley.

This is an abstract from the "Hell Gap at 60: Myth? Reality? What Has It Taught Us?" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Witness Block (Locality I) at Hell Gap preserves a well-studied open-air stratified record of near-continuous Paleoindian occupation. Radiocarbon-based age control has been problematic due to age reversals and inconsistencies related to old and young carbon contamination and calibration uncertainties. Recent work by Pelton et al....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Spencer Pelton. Brigid Grund.

This is an abstract from the "Hell Gap at 60: Myth? Reality? What Has It Taught Us?" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the 1960s, the Hell Gap site in eastern Wyoming produced at least eight archaeological cultural complexes that spanned almost the entire Paleoindian period, becoming the key chronological site for Plains Paleoindian archaeology and beyond. High resolution spatial and chronological data spanning this occupational sequence were...