Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paula Ugalde. Rafael Labarca Encina. Jay Quade. Calogero Santoro. Eugenia Gayó.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine the stable isotopic signature of camelid and rodent remains from PaleoIndigenous sites of the Pampa del Tamarugal (PdT), Atacama Desert (12,800 – 11,200 cal yrs BP; 800 – 1,200 masl). 𝛿13C and 𝛿15N values suggest two groups of animals: 1) with higher 𝛿15N signal and increased C4 diet and, 2) with lower 𝛿15N values and a C3-predominant diet....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Hill, Jr.. Erik Otárola-Castillo.

This is an abstract from the "A Tribute to the Contributions of Lawrence C. Todd to World Prehistory" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the mid-1980s, Lawrence Todd and colleagues published influential, groundbreaking research in Great Plains zooarchaeology. Todd’s pioneering research established innovative methodological and analytical approaches to studying archaeofauna, focusing on large multi-animal bonebeds representing potential kill and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Evan Holt. Brian Wygal. Kathryn Krasinski. Charles Holmes. Barbara Crass.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists have long-recognized that post-depositional processes can affect site deposits and that these processes may introduce substantial biases in the interpretation of sites and assemblages. A frequent assumption is that, barring stratigraphic disturbances, thin, well-defined stratigraphic layers are discrete and meaningful archaeological units, but...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jordan Pratt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The age and distribution of stemmed point technology in the Far West is important for a full understanding of late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeology in North America, especially for those interested in the initial settlement of the Americas. Despite the importance of stemmed points to debates surrounding the peopling process, there are still...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nuno Bicho. Jonathan Haws. João Cascalheira. Célia Gonçalves. Mussa Raja.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology in Mozambique: Current Issues and Topics in Archaeology and Heritage Management" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Located between modern-day South Africa and Tanzania, both of which have well-known and extensive Stone Age records, Mozambique and its Stone Age sequence remain largely unknown in the broader context of African Pleistocene prehistory. This is despite the country’s critical position linking...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ginessa Mahar. Kenneth Sassaman.

This is an abstract from the "Complex Fisher-Hunter-Gatherers of North America" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Interventions of modern nation-states in the affairs of "underdeveloped" nations often fail for imposing standard categories on highly variable and historically situated local practices. The same might be said about scholarship on "complex" hunter-gatherers. Rather than oversimplifying by imposing order vis-à-vis state-level criteria...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marcel Kornfeld. Mary Lou Larson.

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. A key question for interpreting both human behavior and the Paleoindian cultural sequence, the two pillars of significance attached to the Hell Gap site, concerns the nature of site formation. This term, however, is ambiguous. Site formation begins when people carrying on daily activities discard and lose objects. Once lost, the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Youngbae Ji.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Analysis was conducted on 88 tombs on the southern coast of the Korean. Human remains in these tombs have traces of malnutrition and repetitive work. The burials have a small numbers of burial goods but show differences in the number of grave artifacts. I grouped the number of burial artifacts and tomb construction behavior into...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kent Lightfoot. Valentin Lopez. Mark Hylkema. Roberta Jewett. Peter Nelson.

This is an abstract from the "Current Insights into Pyrodiversity and Seascape Management on the Central California Coast" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper synthesizes the results of our recent investigation of indigenous landscape and seascape management practices in Central California in ancient and historical times. The project involves a collaborative team of scholars from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, Amah Mutsun Land Trust,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gayoung Park. Marlize Lombard. Ben Marwick. Donghee Chong.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The introduction of blade technology, stemmed points, end scrapers, burins, denticulates, and finer grained materials led to the transition from the Early to Late Paleolithic in Korea. Stemmed points have been considered a representative tool that led this whole set of changes. We examine the role that the stemmed points played during the Late Paleolithic....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chao Zhao. Qingchuan Bao. Xiaonong Hu.

This is an abstract from the "New Thoughts on Current Research in East Asian Archaeology" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mongolia steppe is widely thought as a marginal zone for agriculture, yet the recent excavations of two inhabit sites and a survey with more than 1000m2 in Ulanqab, central Inner Mongolia have found evidences that people made efforts to do food production during Neolithic period. By studying site structures and the form,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ivor Karavanic.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Research on the Paleolithic in the Mediterranean Region" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For a long time, underwater archeology has complemented the image of the past in different periods ranging from prehistory to the Industrial Age. In some regions, such as the Adriatic, it focused primarily on Greek and Roman periods, and on shipwrecks, while research on prehistoric sites has been rare but recently...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Asia Alsgaard. Erin Ray. Keith M. Prufer. Seth Newsome.

This is an abstract from the "Advances in Interdisciplinary Isotopic Research" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The impact of the agricultural transition in the Maya region is little understood. Excavations at two rockshelters in southern Belize, Mayahak Cab Pek and Saki Tzul, have uncovered intact deposits dating from Cal.12,000 to 1,100 BP with a continuous record of both human and fauna remains. Using carbon and nitrogen bulk tissue and carbon...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Oberheim. Richard Boisvert. Mark Doperalski.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Viewsheds provide an integral part in understanding the first peoples inhabiting the early Northeastern landscape. Work conducted by Dr. Richard Boisvert and others have established a way of analyzing the paleo landscape by looking at the vantage point of different settlements excavated in New Hampshire. I intend to add to this list by examining the Jefferson...

DOCUMENT Citation Only D. Shane Miller. Cody Oscarson. Hunter Saunders. Jesse Tune. Derek Anderson.

The Swag Site (38AL137) was recorded during the initial survey of the Allendale chert quarries by Albert Goodyear and Tommy Charles in 1984. While subsequent work focused on the Topper and Big Pine Tree sites, the Swag site was overlooked until a systematic survey conducted in 2015 identified several localities with buried archaeological deposits. In May 2016 and March 2017, further excavations at the Swag Site produced artifacts that are comparable to Clovis components at Topper,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter Rowley-Conwy.

This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Late Glacial hunters in northern Europe made heavy flint arrow armatures that resemble modern broadhead hunting arrows. These were used for hunting reindeer, as a number of instances of such arrows lodged in reindeer bones testify. With the spread of forests new animals appeared, among them aurochs. In several instances auroch skeletons have been...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Flavia Morello Repetto. Manuel San Roman. Fabiana Martin. Luis Borrero. Marta Alfonso-Durruty.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In this paper, we discuss studies of the early lithic materials from Fell Cave and Cueva del Medio (c. 13.000 cal BP) in comparison with Holocene industries from Punta Santa Ana 1, Marazzi 1, Cabo Monmouth 20, Pizzulic 2. Three main axes are assessed: first, transport and interactions related to non-local raw materials; second, elaborated core reduction...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nora Franco. Lucas Vetrisano.

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. Recent researches have shown the presence of technological and, in some cases, chronological discontinuities in the archaeological record of Central-South Patagonia from the Pleistocene–Holocene transition to the Late Holocene. Most of these changes have been recognized on lithic tools. In this presentation, we use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ingrid-Morgane Gauvin.

Know-how is an archaeologically observable counterpart of the knowledge of technological agents, as it is the material capacity of an agent to apply known techniques. Both elements are not necessarily in exact equivalence, as an agent’s aptitude and willingness to apply techniques may not reflect their full knowledge. Know-how is identifiable by the stigmata left by applied techniques on artifacts and materials. Separating aptitude (or "skill") from the examination and interpretation of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rafael Suárez.

This is an abstract from the "The Global “Impact” of Projectile Technologies: Updating Methods and Regional Overviews of the Invention and Transmission of the Spear-Thrower and the Bow and Arrow" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The plains of Uruguay are an appropriate place to investigate different aspects of lithic projectile technology used with spear-thrower and bow and arrow. During the initial settlement, we have recorded an interesting...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John White. Auréade Henry. Stephen Kuehn. Michael Loso. Jeffrey Rasic.

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. Nataeł Na’ is an ancient buried multicomponent site located in the northern Copper River Basin. During the 2017–2018 field seasons NPS Archaeologist Lee Reininghaus led test excavations at Nataeł Na’ revealing a combustion feature dating to ~12,200–11,400 cal BP. In 2019 a team from the Center for the Study of the First Americans at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cook Hale. Jessi Halligan. Morgan Smith.

This is an abstract from the "*SE The State of Theory in Southeastern Archaeology" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The southeastern United States encompasses the greatest extent of submerged continental shelf in North America along with the greatest abundance of documented submerged precontact sites. It also includes some of the earliest documented precontact sites in North America, some of which are also submerged today. A substantial component of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pat Shipman.

This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The peopling of Greater Australia at about 65,000 years ago preceded that of Eurasia and differed in several key aspects. First, there were no other hominins in Australia, though modern humans moving into Eurasia encountered Neanderthals, Denisovans, and possibly relict populations of other hominins. Second, the predatory guild in Australia was less...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rhode.

The Tibetan pastoral economic system that has evolved over the last several millennia involves permanent high altitude herd management combined with mutualistic relationships with lower-elevation agricultural communities. How this traditional pastoralist system developed in the middle to late Holocene from a prior foraging lifeway remains something of a puzzle, requiring the domestication of the native high-altitude adapted yak, the establishment of sustained relationships between Tibetan...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Pryor. Waylon Coats.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While there is a long history of archeological work in Yosemite National Park, this work is grounded in Western European traditions of archeology that does not take into consideration perspectives of the people who produced much of the record this archeology sets out to understand. These people had their own sense of time, space, and values that effected...