Geoarchaeology (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Meltzer.

Vance T. Holliday has played a key role in developing our understanding of the late Pleistocene geological history, climate and environment of North America, especially the Great Plains, and of the context and chronology of Paleoindian sites. The localities he has worked on, and to which much is owed to his interpretation of their geoarchaeological setting and histories, include iconic localities such as the Clovis, Folsom, Midland and Plainview type sites, and especially the Lubbock Lake site,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heidi Luchsinger.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. For decades, archaeologists have used coring for subsurface testing and paleolandscape reconstruction, but only sporadically. Non-invasive and efficient, core extraction produces intact stratigraphic columns collected in clear plastic tubes that can be brought back to the lab for analysis. Unlike shovel testing and backhoe trenching, coring has no depth...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Caroline Graham. Lia Kitteringham. Edward R. Henry.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Pinson Mounds, located along the South Fork of the Forked Deer River (SFFDR) in West Tennessee, is considered the largest Middle Woodland (ca. 200 BCE – CE 500) ceremonial center in the Southeast. Containing at least 13 earthworks, the site provides important opportunities to examine complex social and environmental interactions among societies across the...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Loren White.

This is an abstract from the "Far West Paleoindian Archaeology: Papers from the Next Generation" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Current geoarchaeological investigations of the Cerro Pedrogoso (Rocky Hill) site on Isla Cedros, Baja California, seek to provide a context for a Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene human occupation along the Pacific coast. Here, a rich assemblage of artifacts signals the presence of maritime coastal adaptations from at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Analise Hollingshead. Michael Waters.

The Buffalo Ranch site is exposed at the base of a cutbank along the Brazos River in Burleson County, Texas. Here, two transitional Paleoindian- Early Archaic Wilson and Big Sandy projectile points along with other artifacts were found eroding from a silty sand deposit believed to be a prehistoric natural levee. This layer and its associated artifacts lie approximately 14 m below the ground surface. Its stratigraphic position indicates an age of approximately 8000 to 8500 14C yr B.P., which is...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Chloe Stevens.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Florida State’s 2022 field school excavated into Page-Ladson’s stratigraphic unit (SU) 5, a stratum that spans the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene with Bolen period occupation, and exposed a sediment feature. It was unclear if the feature was cultural or natural. The soil transition was diffuse but there was an increase in charcoal and faunal...

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 Rolfe Mandel.

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. The Magic Mountain site (5JF223) in Golden, Colorado, has long been recognized as one the most important stratified archaeological sites on the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains. Although Archaic artifacts have been recorded there, the site’s richest and most extensive cultural deposits represent...

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...