Geoarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Terry Ferguson. Andrew Ivester. Christopher Moore.

The Foxwood Farm site (38PN35) is deeply stratified (4.8 m) sedimentary sequence located on the Oolenoy River, near the boundary between the Piedmont and Blue Ridge in Pickens County, South Carolina. The lower most sediments, (4.8 to 3.2 m), consisting of channel gravels, lateral accretion sands, and clays, were deposited during the late Pleistocene prior to 12.6 ka. These sediments exhibit a fining upward sequence from channel gravels and sands, through bar sands, to a cap of clays. The upper...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Farrell.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In the summer of 2018, Texas State University returned to Bone Bed 1 at Bonfire Shelter, a stratified rockshelter in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Val Verde County, Texas. Excavations in 2017 and 2018 confirmed the presence of Pleistocene fauna in the potentially earlier than Clovis deposits of Bone Bed 1. However, evidence of cultural activity was limited to...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Moore. Mark J. Brooks. Albert C. Goodyear. Terry A. Ferguson. James K. Feathers.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The White Pond Human Paleoecology Project is a collaborative effort between multiple institutions and researchers to study the geology, archaeology, and paleoecology of White Pond in South Carolina. Building on the seminal work of Watts (1980), this research seeks to: 1) derive the broader geologic context of the age and origin of White Pond and its fringing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only JD Lancaster. Teresa Wriston. Molly Casperson. Loren Davis. Jillian Maloney.

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. The rivers of the Upper Willamette Valley and Western Cascades have drawn people to their resource rich banks since the Late Pleistocene with evidence of human habitation variably preserved as the watersheds evolved. Since the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) constructed the Willamette Valley...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Samantha Krause. Timothy Beach. Sheryl Luzzadder-Beach. Eleanor Harrison-Buck.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology and the History of Human-Environment Interaction in the Lower Belize River Watershed" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The lagoon system around the island of Crooked Tree in northern Belize provides a compelling hydrological landscape with a strongly seasonal flood regime. The area also presents evidence of long occupation and use by the Maya. Our ongoing investigations include geoarchaeological testing...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David F. Overstreet. Michael M. Gregory. Rolfe D. Mandel. Michael F. Kolb.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Luisa Aebersold.

The Rio Bravo Conservation and Management Area (RBCMA) is an area comprised of over 260,000 acres of protected land, which is owned and managed by Programme for Belize (PfB), an entirely Belizean conservation organization. This area is ideal for geoarchaeological research that encompasses human-environment relationships by analyzing sediments. This poster will present methods and results on preliminary geoarchaeological techniques completed on sediments at the University of Texas at Austin in...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael McFaul.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Zachary Newell.

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The archaeological record of the paleo-Tahkenitch River valley, situated on the Oregon coast, spans the early to late Holocene. Previous work at the Tahkenitch Landing site (35CS43) has demonstrated human response to postglacial marine transgression, transitioning from an inland river valley to a productive estuary in the early Holocene to a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Darrin Lowery.

Understanding the magnitude of sea level rise over the past century is a hot topic in the Chesapeake Bay region. The research presented in this paper combines 20th-century aerial imagery, 19th-century land use data, and geoarchaeological information associated with various coastal archaeological sites to provide a high-resolution marine transgression record spanning the past two centuries. Tide gauge models have suggested that there has been ~1 foot (30cm) to ~1.5 feet (49cm) of sea level rise...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Morgan Smith.

The first field school on an underwater prehistoric site in the United States was conducted on the Guest Mammoth site in the Silver River, near Ocala, Florida in the 1970s. This site was touted as a Columbian mammoth kill site, the first found east of the Mississippi River. The excavators presented evidence of this in the form of a single fluted point, six direct percussion flakes, and several pressure flakes found associated with the remains of an adult and a juvenile mammoth. In addition,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack H. Ray.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Miller. Jamie Hodgkins. Fabio Negrino.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Advances in the Prehistory of Liguria and Neighboring Regions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Arma Veirana is a cave situated along the steep flanks of the Neva river valley, ca. 14 km from the modern-day Mediterranean coast in the mountainous interior of Liguria. The cave formed tectonically within marble, schist and other metamorphic rocks and presents a large but relatively short cavity. Excavations since...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John C. Ravesloot. Michael R. Waters.

Archaeologists reconstruct settlement patterns from the spatial distribution of archaeological sites, features, and ar­tifacts that are found as part of a modern physical landscape. This physical landscape is made up of active and inactive landforms. In order to accurately interpret archae­ological survey data, it is important to understand the types and origins of the landforms on which these cultural re­mains occur (Barton et al. 1999, 2002; Butzer 1982; Bet­tis and Mandel 2002; Waters and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Wilson. Christopher L. Hill. Patrick J. Rennie. David C. Batten. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Sheep Rock Spring site (24JF292) lies in a small SW Montana valley between Sheep Rock and a residual tor. A late Quaternary sequence (>5 m) supports a chronostratigraphic model from dates on charred material in the upper two units: (1) basal rock landslide diamicton; (2) down-valley debris flows; (3) final Pleistocene-early Holocene (FP-EH, >10,200-8700 RCYBP) channel/floodplain alluvium and paleosols; and (4) mid-Holocene (MH, ca. 6000-5430 RCYBP) alluvial/colluvial fan with paleosols....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven R. Holen. Terrance Barton. Stanley M. Parks. David M. May.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie K. Stein. Kenneth Carstens. Kit Wesler.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Debora Trein.

This paper discusses the preliminary results of geochemical and micromorphological analysis of sediments at Structure 3, a monumental temple structure at the site of La Milpa, northwest Belize. This analysis forms part of a project that aims to examine the impact of a community in shaping the functions of monumental architecture. Artifact and architectural evidence gathered at Structure 3 have indicated that the Late Classic period (550-850 CE) constituted a time of intense access and use of the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael Grooms. Norman Easton. Mary Samolczyk. Joel Cubley.

The Little John Site (KdVo-6), Yukon Territory, Canada, contains the presence of Chindadn complex (East Beringian Tradition), Denali complex (Paleoarctic Tradition), Northern Archaic Tradition, and Late Prehistoric artifacts in unique stratified contexts. The site contains loess/paleosol stratigraphic sequences dating to the Wisconsin Interstadial c. 44,000 years ago, and cultural deposits from the Late Pleistocene to the recent past. Optically Stimulated Luminescence and Accelerator Mass...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael B. Collins. Vance T. Holliday.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Katharine Napora. James Bonsall. Stuart Rathbone.

This paper presents the preliminary results of a geoarchaeological investigation of an expansive shell midden site in a dunefield blowout area known as the Shelley Valley in Carrowdough, Co. Sligo, Ireland. Based on the results of the various geophysical and archaeological methodologies we employed at this site during the summer of 2015, we examine changes through time in the ways people utilized the seashore and its resources. Western Ireland is an ideal location in which to study temporally...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Boyce N. Driskell. Paul S. Goldberg.

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PROJECT Gary Haynes. Teresa Wriston.

As part of ongoing investigations by Gary Haynes in Hwange National Park, Teresa Wriston began doctoral research in northwestern Zimbabwe in 2008. The primary goal of this research is to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions in southcentral Africa during the transition from hunting and gathering lifeways to agropastoralism. Establishing when and where this occurred in the project area was the first task. To date, two rockshelters have been excavated revealing an estimated 142,000...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anastasia Lugo Mendez. Steven R. Simms. Tammy M. Rittenour. Molly Boeka Cannon. Nancy Kay Pierson.

In 1928, Harvard archaeologist Noel Morss observed ancient irrigation systems in central Utah during fieldwork that first defined the Fremont culture. Instances of Fremont irrigation are known, but perceptions of the Fremont as a small-scale society of indigenous mixed foragers and farmers delayed empirical evaluation of Morss’s report. Fieldwork, beginning in 2010 and continuing, now identifies a complete irrigation system 4.5 miles long bringing water from 8,500’ to a 90-acre field at 7,100’...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shari Silverman.

Lwalb Old Channel One, a shell midden, spans both sides of an oxbow within the historic Duwamish River floodplain. The oxbow is buried under the streets of the South Park neighborhood, Seattle, Washington. Also called 45KI815, the site’s shell component is light. Therefore, the midden does not mask contemporaneous geomorphological features of the oxbow and surrounding wetland. Visible soil features include the channel; vegetation effects on soil movement; midden migration; possible liquefaction...