Hunter-Gatherers/Foragers (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emma Vance. Ethan Ryan. Anna Marie Prentiss.

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. The well-known Middle Archaic site, 48PA551, in northwestern Wyoming, was originally described as a single McKean Complex occupation. New data from 2018 now suggests the possibility of two occupations. This provides the opportunity to consider the connection between the organization...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Briana Doering. Madeline Mackie.

This is an abstract from the "American Foragers: Human-Environmental Interactions across the Continents" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists agree that proboscideans and other megafauna played a role in lifeways of the first Americans. From eastern Beringia to central America, the evidence is unequivocal: humans hunted mammoths. But what role did these animals play in the food systems of the first Americans? New research at several...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Juan Ignacio Macias Quintero.

This is an abstract from the "Journeying to the South, from Mimbres (New Mexico) to Malpaso (Zacatecas) and Beyond: Papers in Honor of Ben A. Nelson" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents an analysis of the contacts process between sedentary farmers and nomadic groups who inhabited the Mesoamerican Northern Frontier, before the XVI Century. Archaeological previous research suggested that villages standing on the northern mesoamerican...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Larkin Chapman. Emily Jones. Bruce Huckell. John Southon.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ventana Cave, AZ, and Murray Springs, AZ, have long been candidates for sites demonstrating spatial and temporal overlap between Paleoindians and extinct Pleistocene horses. However, this hypothesis has never before been tested using direct radiocarbon dating, rendering previous speculation ambiguous. AMS radiocarbon dates on horse bone from human...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Rapson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Thirteen AMS bone dates based on MNI from 9 hearth and dump features at the Bugas-Holding site establish the contemporaneity of all deposits within the main block area (mean = A.D. 1658). This chronological framework provides an opportunity to evaluate high-resolution behavioral models of social organization and land use at multiple analytical scales,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Daniel Mrak. Jason Toohey.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The northern Peruvian Andes is a traditionally understudied region in terms of the Andean Archaic and foraging/hunting societies in general. Our knowledge of the lithic periods in the north comes from disparate project reports and a very limited number of previous academic projects. Recent fieldwork at the site of Callacpuma in the Cajamarca Basin recovered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jane Buikstra.

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. In his carefully researched tome, The Great Paleolithic War (2015), David Meltzer demonstrates a remarkable depth of scholarship, carefully reading and evaluating 66 reference pages of primary sources. Included were 15 scholarly works by Aleš Hrdlička. Meltzer has thus critically engaged with the research...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Wolff. Michelle Bebber. Metin Eren. Amanda Samuels. Donald Holly.

This is an abstract from the "From Hard Rock to Heavy Metal: Metal Tool Production and Use by Indigenous Hunter-Gatherers in North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recently, more attention has been focused on the assessment of convergence versus divergence of technology in the archaeological record. This ties into long-standing debates concerning our ability to recognize if similar traditions resulted from diffusion or migration, as well as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lois Martin.

This is an abstract from the "The Ties That Bind: Cordage, Its Sources, and the Artifacts of Its Creation and Use" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Recent excavations at the Moon Pyramid in Teotihuacan, Mexico, have uncovered fierce predators—including eagles, pumas, wolves, and rattlesnakes—buried inside. Analysis indicates that many were alive at the time of sacrifice: some in cages, and others bound. Some show evidence of long captivity,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas MacDonald.

The University of Montana conducted an archaeological survey of the Cougar Creek valley, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, in 2017. We mapped Cougar Creek obsidian outcrops, procurement areas, and secondary processing sites. XRF analysis of natural and cultural samples of the snowflake obsidian show a distinct chemical composition, even though its creation event is coeval with the famous Obsidian Cliff ca. 180,000 years ago (ca. 30 miles northeast). Due to its highly variable quality, Native...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marija Edinborough. Kevan Edinborough.

We use anthropological data and a new statistical method to determine if there is a significant change to the health of people found in the Danube Gorges, Serbia (c. 9500–5500 BC), following the arrival of the Neolithic. A gross anatomical study of porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia was undertaken on 113 individuals. The results show a high prevalence of porotic hyperostosis (89%) and a lower prevalence of cribra orbitalia (13%). 1308 teeth deriving from 89 individuals were examined for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jessica Cerezo-Román.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. We examine cremation mortuary practices from Saki Tzul and Mayahak Cab Pek, two rock shelters located in the Maya Mountains of southern Belize. The sites date from 12,000-3700 cal B.P. spanning the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. We build on performance theory and issues of identities to look at the life course of the individuals and the different...

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Karbula.

This is an abstract from the "Bayesian Archaeology" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Berdoll site is a deeply buried early Archaic campsite in the floodplain of Onion Creek in Travis County, Texas. It presents direct evidence of plant food processing at approximately 7606–8291 BP (conventional). Seventeen charred botanical remains including onion bulbs from earth ovens were submitted to two different radiocarbon labs for analysis. Considered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ebony Creswell.

Until recently, the development and spread of tuberculosis in humans has been associated with the advent of Old World animal domestication and agriculture. However, recent evidence for the presence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis raises the possibility of a Pleistocene era dispersal. Poor bone preservation and small populations make finding Pleistocene-era bioarchaeological evidence of the disease difficult. Coupled with this, epidemiological studies suggest that population numbers were too low...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fox Nelson. Briana Doering. Megan Reel. Madeline Mackie.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the world of museums and curation, the curation crisis is accelerating. Due to poor preservation and curatorial techniques used in the past, many items in curation have been destroyed, physically lost, or lost their provenience. As standards get better and preservation techniques improve, a lot of artifacts located in collections are being rediscovered...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Pontillo.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 41HY6 is easily identified by a large, domed midden, containing cultural deposits spanning the Middle and Late Archaic and Late Prehistoric periods. However, beneath the midden are deeper components associated with the Paleoindian and Early Archaic periods. Evidence of chipped stone tool production is consistently found both vertically and laterally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Waters.

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. Geoarchaeological studies are critical to the evaluation of late Pleistocene archaeological sites in the Americas. One of geoarchaeology’s important contributions is to provide an accurate age for a site and its associated stratigraphy. Today, I will discuss best practices for the radiocarbon dating of bone. Laboratories currently use...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley McCaig.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Caribou drive systems are often noted peripherally to important archaeology sites in the Alaska Arctic and are generally assumed to result from late Precontact and early Postcontact hunting strategies. However, little research has been conducted that attempts to date these hunting features. This poster outlines preliminary dating results from a recent...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald Grayson.

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. This year’s Fryxell Award, for general interdisciplinary contributions to archaeology, has gone to David J. Meltzer. Perhaps the quickest introduction to the breadth, depth, power, and focus of Dr. Meltzer’s contributions in this realm is provided by his 2015 book, The Great Paleolithic War: How Science Forged an...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael O'Brien.

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. It is difficult, if not downright impossible, to even begin to summarize the contributions Dave Meltzer has made to archaeology. I’ve long regarded him as the twenty-first-century heir to William Henry Holmes’s mantle. Few people have been as successful in pulling together truly interdisciplinary, as opposed to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chris Widga.

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 last few decades in the Quaternary sciences have seen impressive leaps in the development of novel tools and techniques, as well as excellent examples of interdisciplinary research in pursuit of archaeological objectives. From ancient DNA found in skeletons and sediments to an almost dizzying variety of stable...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stanley Ambrose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. <html> Terminal Pleistocene (14.6-12.8 ka) cemeteries of the Early African Humid Period (E-AHP) along the Nile in Sudan contain many skeletons with injuries (41.9% of burials) suggesting chronic intergroup warfare. During the Later AHP the Nile Valley was densely populated by hunter-gatherer-fisher communities of the Early Khartoum (EK) tradition (10.6-6...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Reynolds. Thomas Palazzolo. Ashley Lemke. John O'Shea. Sarah Saad.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Submerged Prehistoric Archaeology is a subdiscipline of archaeology that deals with the discovery of ancient submerged landscapes. In Europe alone over 3,000 submerged ancient sites are recorded. While there is an increased number of submerged sites in North America, the emphasis has on the study of shipwrecks and historical questions related to nautical...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Ives.

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. Divergence of the Pacific Coast Dene languages from other Dene languages required both significant time and distance to intervene. Yet, there are several indications that there was some degree of contact between Dene speech communities across the Rockies—especially the oral traditions surrounding Changing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kevin Gilmore.

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. The Palmer Divide, an upland extending east from the foot of the Southern Rocky Mountains in central Colorado, contains a mosaic of plains and montane biomes and evidence of the people attracted to these resources. Franktown Cave contained an exceptional assemblage of perishable artifacts dated 3300-2500...