Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers (Other Keyword)
226-250 (461 Records)
The Holzman site, discovered in 2015, is roughly one half mile from the confluence of Shaw Creek with the Tanana River in interior Alaska. To date, we have excavated 56m2, revealing repeated occupations beginning in the Bolling-Allerod, and including an occupation in the Younger Dryas. Located near the Broken Mammoth, Mead, and Swan Point late Pleistocene sites, Holzman consists of a local stone flaking station, hearths, and thousands of faunal remains including organic implements on mammoth...
An Isolated Middle Archaic Bison Kill Site in the Northern Texas Panhandle (2018)
The discovery of a nearly complete, articulated Bison occidentalis in association with a Calf Creek projectile point in the northern Texas Panhandle in 2002 constitutes one of the few known Middle Archaic archaeological sites in the region. As the remains were found incidental to the construction of a new municipal swimming pool, documentation of the excavation and any subsequent analysis were less than ideal. A recently obtained AMS radiocarbon date of the remains at 5115 RCYBP falls within the...
Junius Bird Collections from Sites Rockshelter 1, 2 and 3 (Beagle Channel, Patagonia, Chile) (2018)
Between 1933 and 1980 Junius Bird, researcher from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) New York, traveled through southern Chile where he carried a wide array of archaeological excavations and studies. Towards the beginning of this period, Bird conducted extensive excavations in three sites in the Southern most region of Fuego-Patagonia. Collections from these sites are currently housed at the Division of Anthropology AMNH, and were recently analyzed as part of the activities of Grant...
Kill, Camp, and Repeat: A Return to the Lindenmeier Folsom Site of Northern Colorado (2018)
Paleoindians of the Great Plains are often generalized as highly mobile bison hunters that moved in response to migrating bison. This view is certainly shaped by many well-known single component bison kills which form the basis for the argument. The Lindenmeier (5LR13) Folsom site of northern Colorado might be a notable exception to the high mobility model, as it contains hundreds of Folsom tools, animal bone, chipping debris, and decorated artifacts spread over 800 meters of buried deposits....
Knapping for the Thrill of It? The Non-Conservation of Raw Materials at Middle Paleolithic Sites (2018)
Open-air Middle Paleolithic sites in France are characterized by dense piles of lithic material surrounded by low density "empty" areas. Spatial analysis can be used to segregate lithics artifacts based on whether they are located in the high or low density zones. This analysis is supported by the spatial tracking of refitting sets. The results indicate that high density zones likely correspond with knapping locations and low density areas contain lithics selected from the knapped material for...
Know Before You Dig: Using Comparative Geophysical Exploration and Ground-Truthing for Surgical Excavation (2019)
This is an abstract from the "New Multidisciplinary Research at 48PA551: A Middle Archaic (McKean Complex) Site in Northwest Wyoming" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster presents the results of geophysical exploration and excavation from new research at 48PA551, a Middle Archaic (McKean Complex) site in the Sunlight Basin of NW Wyoming. In the field season of 2017, total field magnetic survey was conducted at the site to identify and...
Late Archaic (San Pedro Phase) Occupation in Niagara Canyon, Chiricahua National Monument: Results of the 2017 UNM/NPS Excavations (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Partners at Work: Promoting Archaeology and Collaboration in the Chiricahua Mountains" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2017 a joint crew of UNM/NPS researchers undertook test excavations at two Late Archaic loci within Niagara Canyon, a small watershed in the northwestern corner of Chiricahua National Monument. Located 0.6 kilometers from one another, both sites (CHIR00032 and CHIR00040) have yielded...
Late Archaic Southern Plains Bison Kills: Accumulated Analysis Results at the Certain Site, Western Oklahoma (2018)
The Certain site is a 2000-year-old Late Archaic bison kill site consisting of multiple arroyo localities in western Oklahoma. Analysis of the site’s excavated faunal assemblage identified an MNI of several hundred bison, although an MNI around 1000 is expected for the entire site. At least nine distinct kill events are represented at Certain, including multiple seasonalities, though largely targeting calf/cow herds. We present the culmination of our analysis to date, including seasonality, herd...
Late Holocene Coastal Hunter-Gatherer Occupations at the Eastern Pampa-Patagonia Transition of Argentina (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The coastal archaeology of the eastern Pampa-Patagonia transition (Argentina) reveals human occupations since the Middle Holocene. In Bahía San Blas, near the mouth of the Río Negro River, the Pozzobón archaeological locality is spatially distributed along 300 meters besides the coastal strip, at only ca. 50 meters from the seashore. Here, we concentrate...
Late Mesolithic Foodways in Arctic and Subarctic Zones: An Ethnoarchaeological Approach (2021)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Through collaboration with modern populations practicing traditional hunting and foraging approaches in Norwegian coastal landscapes of archaeological significance, I present an ethnoarchaeological analogy for Arctic and subarctic Late Mesolithic coastal exploitation. As part of this analogy, I introduce the Accessibility Zones Model, which delineates the...
Late Neanderthal Subsistence at Lapa do Picareiro (Portugal): A Zooarchaeological and Taphonomic Study (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Identifying variability in Neanderthal behavior through time during the Late Pleistocene is critical for understanding the processes which culminated in the disappearance of Neanderthals on local and regional scales. One region, Portuguese Estremadura (central Portugal), has a growing Middle Paleolithic archaeological record with several key sites...
Late Paleoindian Plano-like Finds in Virginia and Beyond (2023)
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. Late Paleoindian Plano or Plano-like finds are not well understood in eastern North America. When documented, the distribution or age of these point types are not as well mapped as their western counterparts. In this paper, we include some known ranges of Plano-like finds in Virginia and...
Late Pleistocene Aggregation Sites on the Peruvian North Coast: A New Look at Paiján Settlement (2018)
Although specific examples are rare, the concept of seasonal or periodic group aggregation is often employed by studies of early foragers in the Americas as a functional process to explain the formation of social networks, information exchange, group ritual, exogamy, and the long-distance movement of materials. In spite of frequent use when modeling mobility and settlement, the material, spatial, and social characteristics of aggregation sites remain poorly understood. Here, we provide two...
Late Pleistocene Occupation in the Southern Kalahari: New Results from the North of Kuruman Palaeoarchaeology Project (2021)
This is an abstract from the "From Veld to Coast: Diverse Landscape Use by Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent investigations of the southern African Late Pleistocene archaeological record have transformed our understanding of the biocultural evolution of our species. Although the intensity of research on coastal and near-coastal records is greater than in the...
A Late Pleistocene Snapshot: Feature 134 at Cooper's Ferry (Nipéhe), Idaho (2021)
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. Cooper’s Ferry (Nipéhe), located in the Lower Salmon River Canyon in western Idaho, is currently the oldest published radiocarbon-dated archaeological site in North America, with dates as early as ~16,000 cal BP. As this site is south of the southernmost extent of the continental ice sheets during the Last Glacial Maximum...
A Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene Site in the Western Great Basin: A Preliminary Study of the Rose Valley Site (CA-INY-1799) (2018)
The Rose Valley site (CA-INY-1799) has considerable potential for providing a deeper understanding of Paleo-Indian adaptations in the Far West. For over 40 years, archaeologists have observed artifacts on the surface of the Rose Valley Site that suggest the presence of a terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene component. Recent analyses of existing collections by other researchers have revealed Paleoindian artifacts such as Clovis/Great Basin Concave Base points, Great Basin stemmed points,...
The Legacy of the Foraging Spectrum and Mikea Ethnography: Do We Need Hunter-Gatherer Studies Anymore? (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Three Sides of a Career: Papers in Honor of Robert L. Kelly" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One way to view the twentieth-century history of hunter-gatherer studies is as a long attempt to evaluate Victorian notions of foragers as primitive relics with actual data from real foraging peoples. This history came to a fiery climax during the Kalahari history debate of the 1990s, when researchers argued whether...
Life in the Margins: The Pre-Still Bay Deposits from Varsche Rivier 003, Southern Namaqualand, South Africa (2021)
This is an abstract from the "From Veld to Coast: Diverse Landscape Use by Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Varsche Rivier (VR) 003 is located in the Knersvlakte, the quartz-gravel plains of southern Namaqualand, South Africa. While currently a marginal, low-rainfall region within the Succulent Karoo Biome, conditions were more favorable during the Late Pleistocene....
Life on the Edge: Late Holocene Hunter-Gatherers on the Abert Rim (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the Late Holocene in the Lake Abert-Chewaucan Marsh Basin provides insights into hunter-gatherer mobility and response to climatic change. This paper aims to provide a framework and understanding of how hunter-gatherers adapted to living on the landscape of the largest North American fault scarp, Abert Rim, in south-central...
A Life on the Rocks : An Archaeologist's Journey (2025)
This is an abstract from the "Papers in Celebration of Bruce B. Huckell, Part 1" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper provides a brief retrospective of Bruce B. Huckell's life and career as told by Lisa W. Huckell, the person who knew him best.
Lithostratigraphy as a Tool for Finding Evidence of the First People in the Americas (2025)
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. In this paper, the application of lithostratigraphy in geoarchaeological research is offered as a powerful tool for determining where Early Paleoindian and Pre-Clovis cultural deposits are likely to occur in buried contexts. This approach is facilitated by an understanding of the history for all sediment comprising each...
Local or Exogenous? The Different Facets of Chert During the Gravettian at Vale Boi (Southwestern Portugal) (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Local and/or Exotic Interactions: Symbols, Materials, and Societies" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Hunter-gatherers relied strongly on lithic raw materials, making them essential to characterize mobility and land-use, raw material provisioning, technology, social organization, exchange, and the functioning of social networks. As such, the characterization of hunter-gatherer lifeways is often the result of the...
The Lone Spruce Site, a High-Altitude Seasonal Camp of the Upper Colorado River Basin (2023)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 5GA2312, the Lone Spruce Site, is located within the upper reaches of the Colorado River Basin in Grand County, Colorado, at 8,200 feet above sea level. The site was partially excavated in 2016 when 5,021 artifacts, 32% being identified as various types of scrapers, were recovered. Ninety-five percent of the assemblage is of Table Mountain jasper, which is...
A Look at the Impact of Natural Grassland Fires on the Archaeological Record along the Eastern Escarpment of the Southern High Plains of Texas (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Fire-Cracked Rock: Research in Cooking and Noncooking Contexts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Fires are an essential aspect of the grassland ecosystem across the Great Plains. Natural fires often can transform surrounding rocks to look like hearths or individual hearthstones used by prehistoric people. Several experiments, however, have demonstrated that grassland fires may not fully discolor the rocks on all sides...
Low-Cost Centripetal Technology in the LSA of Southern Mozambique (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Expedient Technological Behavior: Global Perspectives and Future Directions" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Centripetal lithic technology, including various forms of Levallois technique, is very common in the African MSA. This technology is commonly identified by prepared core technology, where striking platforms are fully prepared to produce a variety of blanks. In Mozambique, both Levallois and prepared discoidal...