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DATASET Ryan Byerly.

This paper briefly explores the archaeological signatures of Early through Late Holocene resource use and hunter-gatherer settlement patterns near Emerson Lake aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Investigations of 156 localities along a linear belt of probable plant biomass modelled through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index assessments registered larger, richer, and more diverse assemblages, containing significantly higher frequencies of resource-processing artifacts, such as...