Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Pintar. María Fernanda Rodríguez.

The earliest occupations in the Salt Puna —a high elevation desert in the Andes Mountains — date to the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary and are relevant to the discussion of the timing of the first exploration and colonization of South American elevations above 3500m, as well as the relationship between mountain environments and other ecological areas. The wooden shafts used in the extractive technologies of the earliest hunter-gatherers originated outside the Puna, in the eastern lowlands....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marion Coe. Edward Jolie.

This is an abstract from the "Approaches to Archaeological Footwear" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Excluding much younger examples of distinctive Fremont-era and Promontory Phase moccasins, footwear of any sort seems to be largely, if not entirely, absent from the archaeological record of the Eastern Great Basin during the preceding millennia. This apparent pattern stands in sharp contrast to the well attested and venerable woven sandal...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Pestle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Forty-six newly documented anthropogenic shell works, stretching along 1.5 km of a paleoshoreline in the intertidal zone of southwestern Puerto Rico constitute a precontact landscape (a shellscape, if you will) without parallel on the island. Besides evidencing subsistence practices, these monumental features speak to the culturally mediated adaptive...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Kielhofer. Jessica Tierney. Joshua Reuther. Ben Potter. Charles Holmes.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology of Alaska, the Gateway to the Americas" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many paleoenvironmental reconstructions from interior Alaska are based on pollen assemblages from lacustrine cores, which are sometimes challenging to relate directly to terrestrial conditions experienced by early human occupants. Here we use compound-specific stable isotope analysis of plant wax n-alkanes (δ13C wax and δDwax values) to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katherine Grillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ceramics produced by fisher-hunter-gatherers during the African Humid Period (AHP) are recognized archaeologically throughout northwest Kenya’s Turkana Basin, predating the arrival/adoption of cattle-based pastoralism and “Nderit” ceramic traditions ~5,000 years ago. Some AHP ceramics in the Turkana Basin share well-documented decorative similarities with...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Roades. Juliet Morrow. J. Christopher Gillam.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fluted point techno-complexes of the Ozarks include Clovis, Gainey, Folsom, and Dalton. Folsom point-making people are comparatively less well represented in the interior Ozarks possibly because of the lack of grasslands and bison. In this presentation, we explain the origins and evolution of Clovis technology and the exploitation of lithic resources from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller.

This is an abstract from the "The Far-Reaching Influence of Steven L. Kuhn" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Kuhn and Stiner (2006) argued that an overlooked, but salient difference between Neanderthals and modern humans was their approaches to dividing labor. Kuhn and Stiner contend that modern humans were “diverse specialists” that may have aided in their ability to adapt to novel and changing environments and outcompete generalists. Here, we...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jianjie Yin.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Epipaleolithic assemblages in the Levant are characterized by frequent occurrences of microliths, and their techno-morphological and chronological studies have clarified detailed cultural history and regional variations in the Levant. While functional studies of microliths recently increased, the relationship between microlith functions and their...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Derick Juptner. Jordan Pratt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Weed Lake Ditch is an open-air site located on the relict shores of Pluvial Lake Malheur in the Harney Basin of southeastern Oregon. Excavations by the University of Nevada, Reno and the Center for the Study of the First Americans (CSFA) have revealed multiple stemmed points and crescent lithic technology in buried contexts. Faunal remains from the site are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kyle Freund. Daron Duke. Erin Eichenberg. Lucas Johnson. David Thomas.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster concerns the Tule Springs Archaeological Site (79001461/26CK4) in Clark County, Nevada, and new analyses of the obsidian flake discovered there in 1933. The importance of the flake rests in its then-postulated association with the fossil remains of extinct Pleistocene megafauna and the long-term research endeavors that have happened since....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mikkel Pedersen.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Meadowcroft Rockshelter, located near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a significant archaeological site excavated by James Adovasio and his team from 1973 to 1978. The site contains stratified layers of artifacts and charcoal dating from the Historic period back to approximately 17,300 years ago, suggesting early...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Eske Willerslev.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During this talk I will introduce the Ancient Environmental Genomics Initiative for Sustainability (AEGIS) aimed at accelerating and delivering new strategies for developing resilient crops and agricultural systems and hence mitigate the risk of a human food crisis in the face of climate changes. This ambitious...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruairidh Macleod. Rick Schulting. Angela Lieverse. Andrzej Weber. Eske Willerslev.

This is an abstract from the "Northeast Asian Prehistoric Hunter-Gather Lifeways: Multidisciplinary, Individual Life History Approach" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This talk will discuss the utility of ancient genomic data to gain insight into prehistoric hunter-gatherer lifeways and social organization at Lake Baikal. Specifically, we will focus on familial relationships in a putative massacre instance from the Early Bronze Age at the cemetery...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José Víctor Moreno Mayar.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Americas were the last continent to be reached by anatomically modern humans. Thanks to large-scale genomic studies, archaeology, anthropology and geology we have a broad understanding of the process whereby the ancestors of present-day Indigenous Americans originated in Northeast Asia, reached the continent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Justin Holcomb.

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology in First Americans Research, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the past several decades, the application of soil and sediment micromorphology in geoarchaeology has flourished, especially outside of the Americas. Despite the widespread acceptance and use of this approach by our European counterparts, a similar effect has yet to occur among geoarchaeologists focused on the early archaeological...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lisa Maher. Danielle Macdonald. Theresa Barket. Ahmad Thaher.

This is an abstract from the "Debitage Analysis: Case Studies, Successes, and Cautionary Tales" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Cultural affiliation and change in the Epipaleolithic (EP) period of Southwest Asia has historically been marked through microlithic stone tool technologies, where stone tool manufacturing is focused on the production of a large number of small bladelets then retouched into various microlith types. While researchers...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kurt Fredrickson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Flint Run Complex in Northern Virginia contains not one, but several Late Pleistocene open-air stratified Paleoindian sites. Thunderbird (44WR11) is the main site within the complex with evidence of human occupation in the region at around 9,990 BP. Numerous tools were recovered which fit the Clovis technocomplex and extensive analysis has been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sam Lin.

Archaeological science is defined as the use of scientific techniques, typically derived from the natural sciences, in archaeology. In lithic research, archaeological science studies have investigated topics ranging from identifying raw material sources, assessing artefact function and technology, to modelling socio-cultural and evolutionary changes. However, this method-centred definition of archaeological science has also led to a focus on the "sciency" appeal of techniques over basic...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Hitchcock. Melinda Kelly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Southern Africa has some of the world’s largest elephant (Loxodonta africana) populations. Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe all allow elephant hunting by safari company clients. Wildlife departments in the three countries engage in problem animal control (PAC) to reduce human-elephant conflict (HEC). Local indigenous community members, while not allowed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John White. Jeffrey Rasic. Mike Loso.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of the Southern Yukon-Alaska Borderlands" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The multicomponent hunter-gatherer site Nataeł Na’ represents the first evidence of Pleistocene-aged human occupation in the Copper River basin. One occupation dates to the Allerød interstadial and another to the late Younger Dryas climate reversal. To date, the Allerød occupation has been identified only by a small assemblage of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James O'Connell.

This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part II" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pleistocene Sahul, the continent created when falling sea levels opened a dry land connection between New Guinea and Australia, was first colonized by anatomically modern Homo sapiens c. 47-51 ka. A small number of sites beyond this age in the north, south and west of Australia, including two claimed to be...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Ahlrichs.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research presents the results of an analysis of a large privately curated collection of Archaic period (Old Copper Complex) copper from the Western Great Lakes. Results from metric, LA-ICP-MS chemical characterization, and radiometric dating analyses will be presented. The data set is drawn from a collection of over 2000 formal copper tools recovered by a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Kinneer.

This is an abstract from the "*A New Look at the Southern Rocky Mountains: Crossroads of Western North America" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2023 Centennial Archaeology conducted data recovery excavation at the Twin Tunnels Site (5CC389) on the north side of I-70 overlooking Clear Creek. The site occupies a transitional environmental zone between the plains to the east and the high country to the west. The excavation produced a diverse...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. High-resolution data detailing artifact distributions within the Folsom Cultural component of Hell Gap (48GO305) Locality I (HGI) are instrumental in investigating the lifeways of Paleoindian groups during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. Analyzing artifact distributions at HGI allows researchers to identify and interpret discrete activity areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only José-Miguel Tejero. Olivia Cheronet. Pere Gelabert. Gerhard Weber. Ron Pinhasi.

This is an abstract from the "Animal Resources in Experimental Archaeology" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Osseous objects are among the most frequent archaeological remains recovered from Upper Paleolithic (UP) sites. Their analysis is thus essential to obtain insights into crucial aspects of the Pleistocene hunter-gatherer’s lifestyle, including human subsistence, social behavior, prehistoric humans’ practical/symbolic choices, and the...