Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers (Other Keyword)
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This is an abstract from the "More Than Shelter from the Storm: Hunter-Gatherer Houses and the Built Environment" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A place is structured and given meaning through human experiences at both individual and group levels. Places are created through repeated human action and made tangible in the landscape by material culture. These places become part of a built environment, marked by daily routines or habitus. At the...
The Butchering Patterns Present at the Bull Creek Camp: A Late Paleoindian Site in Oklahoma (2018)
Bull Creek, located in the panhandle of Oklahoma, is a rare late Paleoindian camp on the Southern Plains. Two separate occupation levels apparent at the camp indicate two seasons of habitation. The lower camp, dominated by bison bone, is the focus of this analysis. Bone tools and distinct butcher marks provide evidence of butchering behavior 9,000 years ago on the Southern Plains of Oklahoma. This poster describes the findings of butchering processes at the site. Large sections of bison are...
Camping with Mammoths? Identification of Ivory Fragments at the La Prele Mammoth Site Using Microscopy (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. While it is well known that Clovis people hunted mammoths (Mammuthus columbi), there are few cases in the Paleoindian record where campsites associated with mammoth remains have been found. The La Prele Mammoth site, located near Douglas, Wyoming, is an approximately 13,000-year-old mammoth kill site with an associated camp. While mammoth remains have been...
Cascadia Cave, the Excavations (2023)
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. Cascadia Cave (35LIN11) is an iconic rockshelter and rock art site at the edge of Oregon’s Willamette Valley and Western Cascade Range. Following excavations in 1964, Tom Newman reported an early Holocene radiocarbon age of 8810 cal BP and a Cascade projectile point assemblage that was central to...
Central Texas Plant Baking (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Hot Rocks in Hot Places: Investigating the 10,000-Year Record of Plant Baking across the US-Mexico Borderlands" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Burned rock middens, large accumulations of thermally fractured stone and charred earth representing earth oven facilities, are ubiquitous in the hunter-gatherer archaeological record of Central Texas, upon and near the Edwards Plateau. The subject of study for over a century,...
Certainty about Uncertainty: Lessons Learned from Modeling Human Land Use and Decision Making (2018)
A cornerstone of William Lovis’ career has been the investigation of human land use dynamics, with strong emphasis on methodological rigor and statistical analysis. He has led a generation of students to consider these issues in the Great Lakes and beyond. The modeling of past human decision making is useful as a heuristic for exploring goals and motivations, about which there is certainly a tremendous amount of uncertainty. Instead, modeling past behavior is inherently an exercise in balancing...
Change in Mobility and Site Occupation during the Late Pleistocene in Korea (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Stone artifact assemblages can be an important source of information about hunter-gatherer mobility and subsistence, according to behavioral ecological theory that links technological changes to environmental adaptation. We examined stone artifacts from 28 sites in South Korea to investigate technological innovations during the Late Pleistocene and their...
Characterizing Lithic Networks during the Archaic Period in the Lower Mississippi River Valley (2024)
This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This research investigates temporal patterns of tool stone acquisition and utilization during the Archaic period in the Lower Mississippi Valley region. Chert assemblages from Middle and Late Archaic, including Poverty Point, sites are analyzed. Whereas Late Archaic and Poverty Point assemblages are known...
Charting Late Pleistocene Social Networking in Southern Africa Using Strontium Isotope Geochemistry (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances and Debates in the Pleistocene Archaeology of Africa" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The roots of long-distance social networking run deeper than Facebook. At some point in the Pleistocene, hunter-gatherers began exchanging ‘non-utilitarian’ artifacts like beads and other ornaments over hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of kilometers. Among ethnographically documented foragers these networks...
The Chaíne Opératoire of Late Archaic through Mesilla Phase Assemblages from the Placitas Arroyo Site Complex, Lower Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The chaíne opératoire approach to lithic analysis has rarely been imported from the Old World and applied to analysis of New World lithic assemblages. However, that approach is appropriate for virtually any lithic technology, providing a structured methodology that shifts attention from typological studies to explicitly behavioral analyses, complimenting...
Chemehuevi Sites in the Western Mojave Desert in the Late Nineteenth Century: Continuation of Desert Adaptations by Chemehuevi Migrants in the Ranching Era (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Expanding Our Understanding of the Mojave Desert: Emerging Research and New Perspectives on Old Data" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This presentation will discuss several sites in the southern Antelope Valley (western Mojave Desert) that were occupied in the late nineteenth century by Chemehuevi family groups. At one of these sites, a traditional circular structure—dwelling—dating from that era was photographed in...
The ‘chronological dilemma’ of late Pleistocene fossil remains and human artifacts in cave deposits in the western U.S.: false and real associations explained (2025)
This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Many cave deposits in the western U.S. are rich in late Pleistocene vertebrate fossils and plant remains preserved in sediments and packrat middens. These caves are usually deep, dry, and located in arid environments where preservation and mummification of organic remains is highest. Many of these same caves were...
Clovis and the Chronology of Megafaunal Extinctions in the Southern Great Lakes (2019)
This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over 40 unpublished AMS results on Rangifer, Cervalces, Bootherium, and Ovibos combined with ~80 published assays for Mammuthus and Mammut are used to profile extinction of these taxa in the Southern Great Lakes. At least one result for each of these taxa falls in the Clovis time period, except for Ovibos. Numerous dates for Mammut and Cervalces...
Clovis in the Petrified Forest (2019)
This is an abstract from the "The Paleoindian Southwest" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the results of research at the Rainbow Forest locality and the Blue Mesa site, two early Paleoamerican occupations in Petrified Forest National Park. Rainbow Forest and Blue Mesa are likely Clovis occupations and present the problem of identifying Clovis-era sites in a region in which site surface assemblages have been collected by human...
Clovis Technology and Settlement in the Southern Bonneville Basin of Utah (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. Bruce Huckell was a leader in the study of Clovis and Paleo-Indigenous technology in North America, and his research has strongly impacted our thinking on the subject, the lead author for 35 years. Here we present results of our ongoing study of the Clovis occupation of the southern Bonneville basin, Utah. First, at the Hell’n Moriah...
Clovis-Folsom Overlap at the La Prele Mammoth Site (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. The nature of the transition from Clovis to Folsom complexes has long been an area of interest for Pleistocene archaeologists in the West. While it has been hypothesized that Folsom was an innovation started during the Clovis time period there have been few clear cases of temporal overlap. A recent find at the La Prele Mammoth...
Co-residence in Hunter-Gatherer Groups: New Insights from the Southern Florida Interior (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In recent years, there has been a resurgence in interest of co-residence among hunter-gatherers, chiefly in relation to how groups solve collective action problems. The southern Florida interior can greatly contribute to these ongoing discussions with many multi-mound complexes exhibiting periods of monument construction and varying degrees of co-residence...
Collecting, Caching, and Cooking: The Agency of Women in Hunting-Gathering Societies (2024)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Decades of ethnographic and archaeological research has shown that women manage and perform many activities associated with food preparation and the manufacture of food processing implements in hunting-gathering societies around the world. This paper argues that dramatic shifts in Terminal Late Woodland (A.D. 1000-1600) subsistence strategies in the...
Columbian Mammoth Remains (Proboscidea, *Mammuthus columbi) from Unit UE1, Tocuila Archaeo-Paleontological Site, Mexico (2021)
This is an abstract from the "Current Zooarchaeology: New and Ongoing Approaches" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From a small excavation unit 5 × 6 m named UE1 in Tocuila, Texcoco Municipality, State of Mexico, Mexico, around 1,300 bone elements were recorded, of which we have analyzed about 80%, being outstanding the remains of Columbian mammoth (*Mammuthus columbi), constituting about 90% of the total. According to the stratigraphic distribution...
Coming into the Country, 37 years later. Did we get it right? (Maybe not entirely.) Did we do something useful? (Probably.) (2025)
This is an abstract from the "2025 Fryxell Award Symposium: Papers in Honor of David J. Meltzer Part I" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The timing and nature of terminal Pleistocene colonization of the western hemisphere is central to the career of David Meltzer. In 1988, as young, wet-behind-the-ears professionals, we presented a narrative model to explain several facets of early Paleoindian archaeology: the nature of faunal processing, the...
Coming into the High Country: Initial Observations, Geometric Morphometrics, and Raw Material Conveyance Patterning from Clovis Localities in the Mountains of Southwest, Montana (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Between 2021 and 2024, two complete fluted Clovis projectile points and eight fluted point fragments were recovered from five localities in the mountains of southwest Montana. Each of these five localities exhibits formal tools and reduction sequences consistent with Clovis lithic technology. Here we present observation on the ten fluted points...
Communal Trapping and Pinyon Exploitation in the Wovoka Wilderness (2018)
Heritage resources are recognized as a characteristic of the relatively new Wovoka Wilderness, created in 2014. Located in western Nevada’s Pine Grove Hills and in the Sierra Nevada’s rain shadow, resources relate to pine nut exploitation and communal artiodactyl hunting. The Wichman deer game trap still has standing corral posts, providing insights about the structure and function of Great Basin traps. Other game traps, blinds, rock rings, brush huts and bow stave trees are among the resources...
Comparing Quartz Lithic Technological Organization of Early Holocene Foragers and Iron Age Farmers at Kakapel Rockshelter, Western Kenya (2025)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Quartz is a readily available lithic raw material that formed a large portion of the stone tool economy for many ancient societies globally. Considered a lower-quality material overall, physical properties of crystalline vein quartz constrain reduction strategies, often resulting in a narrow range of tool and debitage morphologies. This leaves open...
Concealed Archaeology of Kazakhstan: An Early Neolithic Burial from Koken (2024)
This is an abstract from the "Steppe by Steppe: Advances in the Archaeology of Eastern Eurasia" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The period prior to the emergence of agriculture and pastoralism is one of the most understudied and least deciphered time periods in Eurasian steppe archaeology. A shortage of stratified or well-preserved early Holocene campsites means that our knowledge of this period heavily relies on lithic assemblages not always with...
Connecting Camps and Kills: A Least Cost Path Analysis of the Rollins Pass Game Drive Complex, Colorado Front Range, USA (2025)
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. Mountain passes were central to high elevation land use in the Southern Rocky Mountains. Rollins Pass, known for its extensive complex of alpine game drives, represents an especially notable example of an accumulated record of precontact occupation. Game drives at Rollins Pass are significant because their...