North America: Great Plains (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only McKenzie Merchant.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The University of South Dakota (USD) archaeological field school in summer 2024 took place at the Soapsuds Row area of Fort Meade at the Bear Butte Creek Historic Preserve in Sturgis, South Dakota. The term “Soapsuds Row” refers to the housing originally used by laundresses employed by Fort Meade in the late AD 1800s. The 2024 archaeological work focused...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nine ground stone tool (GST) artifacts were recovered during the 1960s and 1990s excavations at the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark. They were found in units dating to ~10,800 - 10,000 years ago. These GST artifacts are on loan to Eastern New Mexico University digital archaeology lab from the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Cresci-Fulmer.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The discovery and archaeological excavation of the Hell Gap National Historic Landmark, north of Guernsey, Wyoming provided archaeologists with a breadth of knowledge of North American cultures, ranging from Folsom to Archaic. One set of artifacts recovered from the site is an ancient ground stone tool...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cassie Vogt.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. From September 1881 to April 1883, Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) and approximately 160 followers were imprisoned at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, following Sitting Bull’s highly publicized defeat of Lt. General Custer at the Battle of Greasy Grass (Little Bighorn) in 1876, their defiant sojourn in Canada, and the group’s surrender to the US government....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clifford White.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. High-resolution data detailing artifact distributions within the Folsom Cultural component of Hell Gap (48GO305) Locality I (HGI) are instrumental in investigating the lifeways of Paleoindian groups during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene. Analyzing artifact distributions at HGI allows researchers to identify and interpret discrete activity areas...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Dangerfield.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. With the establishment of the Bureau of Reclamation in 1902, the federal government endeavored to reclaim the arid American West and support historic European settler’s homesteading efforts through large scale irrigation infrastructure construction that provided a reliable water supply...

DOCUMENT Citation Only K. Carter.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study sets out to determine the applicability of using fecal spherulites and coprophilous fungal spores (CFS) as tracers for bison dung fuel use within the archaeological record. Modern bison dung and surrounding sediments were collected from the Konza Prairie Biological Reserve (KPBS) and analyzed for fecal spherulites and CFS. Following collection,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristin Bowen.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Reclamation constructed Navajo Dam from 1958 to 1961, creating Navajo Reservoir. Consequently, Pueblo I habitations that were formerly lining river corridors became archaeological sites situated on the 159 miles of reservoir shoreline. This paper examines current actions involved with managing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Haley Purifoy.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Household archaeology is an effective way to study past peoples, but it is only effective when a house is present for study. Throughout Paleoindian archaeology, the lack of perishable materials makes identifying house structures difficult. In central Wyoming, the La Prele Mammoth Site is a unique opportunity to study Paleoindian households. The La Prele...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Cannon.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. After nearly six decades of American compliance archaeology, archaeologists have developed a robust toolset for addressing historic preservation, including documentation through archival research, archaeological excavation, ethnography, and National Register of Historical Places nominations....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Yubitzy Truong.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This study discusses the ergonomic use of ground stone tools, specifically manos. A mano is a handheld tool used for processing foods and other materials. Through analysis of wear patterns, size and shape of artifact HG UWI 2158, this and other similar artifacts can reveal why they were chosen for...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Hell Gap National Historic Landmark (NHL) has yielded many ground stone artifacts that have yet to be analyzed. Ground stone artifacts can expand our understanding of Folsom lithic technologies. Ground stone tool collections are cumbersome and difficult to access. Many researchers are solving this...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Monica Eckels.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jones Miller site is a Bison antiquus kill site in Northeast Colorado near the town of Wray. The site was discovered by Robert Jones, Jr. in 1972, and excavated by Dennis Stanford at the Smithsonian Museum. The site is a thick, very large (approximately 36m by 40m) bone bed located in a former draw off the Arikaree River basin. The site dates to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rory Becker.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Electrical Resistivity Tomography (ERT) produces 2D depth profiles similar to a single ground penetrating radar (GPR) slice. While earth resistance is a technique commonly employed during broad area archaeological prospection surveys, the tomography method is generally utilized to model sediment depths or delineate subsurface archaeological features....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Effie Athanassopoulos.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. A significant challenge that many archaeological projects face is how to consistently and efficiently identify and classify artifacts, while processing a large corpus of data amassed through fieldwork. This is particularly poignant in smaller institutions that may lack the resources to utilize new and powerful machine learning techniques. In this poster,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frederic Sellet.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper investigates the archaeological signature of retooling at the Lindenmeier site. A series of exhausted or broken Folsom projectile points cluster spatially and identify discrete activity areas related to weaponry replacement. We analyzed the spatial distribution as well as the composition of these clusters to assess the degree of exhaustion of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew Pauly.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Frame Biface Cache consists of three large bifaces found in Logan County, northeastern Colorado. The bifaces were knapped from Flattop chalcedony and are interpreted as late-stage preforms, with fairly flat faces, high width:thickness ratios, and edges that lack finishing work and use-wear. Two of them are very similar in dimensions, but one shows no...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ethan Ryan.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Historical Research Associates, Inc. has been conducting large-scale cultural resource investigations in support of the Bureau of Reclamation’s (BOR) American Falls Resource Management Plan (RMP) Cultural Resources Update Project near American Falls, Idaho. This project includes cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Rilk.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. During the Bureau of Reclamation’s most recent effort to document the more than one thousand rock art elements at the Watson Petroglyph Site in Malheur County, Oregon, evidence of an unexpected cultural practice was identified. Deposited in the cracks and placed under spalls of some of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tara Larson.

This is an abstract from the "Digitizing the Past: Studying Ancient Ground Stone Toolkits Using Modern Technology" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Ground stone tools (GST) were an integral component of early North American toolkits, however there are few archaeological studies that analyze GST. The Hell Gap National Historic Landmark has yielded GST in context with stone tool reduction, ochre, and other campsite activities. Our research focuses on...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kristina Doyle.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This project aims to document the material evidence of historic exploration of Wind Cave in South Dakota, which occurred during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since the cave maintains a consistent dry climate and cool temperatures, items such as newspapers clippings, notes from early visitors, and candle remains can be found completely or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Erlick.

This is an abstract from the "Managing Water, Protecting Heritage: Bureau of Reclamation Undertakings in the American West" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Over the last 10 years, the Bureau of Reclamation’s Provo Area Office, along with the Utah and Wyoming State Historic Preservation Offices, have developed programmatic agreements (PAs) as an alternative form of compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966. These...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Siofra Lynch.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Plains archaeologists have previously miscategorized stone awls as pipe-making implements, when awls should actually be considered hide-processing tools. In order to properly study women’s hide-processing tools, it is imperative that those artifacts are not confused for separate men’s tools. This project utilized morphometric analysis to study Great Bend...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Arland Wallace.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ethnohistoric record from the American Great Plains has indicated that dried pumpkin (Cucurbita spp.) strips were frequently woven into mats as a type of food storage. This type of food storage was likely developed over extended geographical areas and deep in time, but archaeological methods being employed for identification regarding their use and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles Rose.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2024 flooding of the Upper Missouri caused catastrophic damage across the region, blowing out bridges, culverts and altering stream banks along many of the streams that feed into the Missouri River and the Missouri River itself. This poster presents research that models the flood and erosional risk to archaeological sites in the Upper...