Dating Techniques: Dendrochronology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Transcending Modern Boundaries: Recent Investigations of Cultural Landscapes in Southeastern Utah" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ancestral Pueblo people in southeastern Utah seem to have been obsessed with sandals and their depictions during the thirteenth century. Recent research has documented hundreds of sandal depictions on plaster and rock surfaces in the area dating to this period, but how should archaeologists...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Peresolak.

The objective of my Master’s thesis was to formulate a history of the Carroll Cabin and farm, a historic log house located in Fayette County, Pennsylvania on Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) land. My research focused on how archaeological and historical records could be used to answer questions about the farm's extant home and the property's history. In Pennsylvania and other states (and at the federal level) multi-use public land managers are responsible for similar...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Kessler. Dakota Larrick. Christopher Baisan. Jeffery Dean. Ronald Towner.

This is an abstract from the "Isotopic and Animal aDNA Analyses in the Southwest/Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The contributions of tree-ring dating to American archaeology are well known but the benefits of the technique have largely been restricted to the uplands of the northern Southwest. While tree-ring dates have been successfully obtained from a handful of sites in the Southwest/Northwest, dendrochronology has been hampered in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dakota Larrick. Chris Baisan. Charlotte Pearson. Hugo García Ferrusca.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Paquimé, or Casas Grandes, is one of the largest and most complex archaeological sites in the North American Southwest. Paquimé was of central and wide-reaching importance in the cultural region referred to as the Gran Chichimeca during the Medio period (AD 1200–1450), and therefore remains of crucial significance to borderland archaeology (Minnis 2003)....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juliette Taieb. Claire Alix. Glenn P. Juday. Owen K. Mason. Christophe Petit.

This is an abstract from the "Arctic Pasts: Dimensions of Change" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The first and only millennial tree-ring chronology (AD 978–1941) in northwest Alaska was developed in the 1940s by archaeologist and dendrochronology pioneer J. L. Giddings. Constructed from living trees and archaeological samples from the Kobuk River valley, Giddings’s sequence established the chronology of the “Arctic Woodland Culture.” As Alaskan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Williams.

This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Tree-ring data have traditionally been used to study past climates and to establish detailed site construction sequences, particularly when paired with architectural analyses aimed at understanding wall bond-and-abutment patterns. In addition to climatological and temporal information, however, tree-ring data often indicate...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Windes. Benjamin Bellorado.

This is an abstract from the "Research, Education, and American Indian Partnerships at the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The depopulation of ancestral Pueblo people from the northern Southwest has been a fascination of archaeologists for decades. Using a suite of social and environmental models, scholars have attempted to explain the processes that led tens of thousands of people to vacate hundreds of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorian Burnette. David Dye. Arleen Hill.

Stephen Williams proposed the idea of a Vacant Quarter based on the abandonment of numerous Mississippian polities throughout much of the Midsouth and Midwest. The unprecedented, large-scale depopulation of an approximately 130,000 square kilometer area has been linked with population movements as well as interpolity conflict. By taking a dendroclimatological approach we evaluate the role of climate change in this process, while also being cognizant of social processes. We postulate a staggered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. Kristine Schenk. Chris Saunders.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dendroarchaeology, the use of tree-ring analyses to understand past human societies, is an excellent subfield by which to introduce students and the public to archaeological science because of its accessibility: trees are a visible part of many peoples’ daily lives, and people often have basic knowledge of tree growth that can be drawn on to introduce the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Roos.

This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the Southwest US, well-replicated fire histories suggest that abundant lightning and climate conditions drove frequent low-severity wildfires independent of human activities even as ethnography indicates that highly mobile, small groups of Western Apache (Ndée) foragers used fire in myriad land use contexts. Here we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Windes.

This is an abstract from the "Tree-Ring Materials as a Basis for Cultural Interpretations" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mindful identification and description of wood used in building construction suggests Ancestral and Historic Puebloans were discriminating consumers of arboreal resources. Using data gathered from Chacoan great houses and historic Pueblo buildings, we present evidence that indicates meaningful selection of wood species,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carla Van West.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Public Education at Tijeras Pueblo, New Mexico" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper describes how Linda Cordell, working with colleagues, including me, used building timbers to (1) date room construction and village occupation at Tijeras Pueblo, (2) understand villager’s choices about wood use, (3) describe changing climate conditions associated with the village’s occupation,...