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DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Carr. Jeffrey Brewer. Nicholas Dunning. Kathryn Reese-Taylor. Armando Anaya Hernández.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Lidar has dramatically expanded our view of the ancient Maya landscape. We have used lidar to study the key natural resources of limestone and chert- their location, extent, and relationship to other ancient Maya features. Limestone was a key building material and chert was the source for most chipped stone tools. Lidar-derived imagery and hydrological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Kramer.

This report presents the descriptive and analytical results of an archeological survey of Arches National Park in southeast Utah (Utah Project No. U87-NA-054N). A total of 26 sites and 69 isolated artifact finds was recorded in the 1,160 acres surveyed during August 1987. This report is produced in cooperation with the National Park Service, Midwest Archeological Center, in accordance with Supplemental Agreement No. CA-6115-7-8008 and in furtherance of MasterCooperati ve Agreement No....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bruce A. Jones.

This archaeological overview and assessment for Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve describes the multiple episodes of archeologocial research that have occurred in the Flint Hills region, and documents the presence of archeological materials reflecting 12,000 years of American Indian occupation and use of the lands around the preserve. Paleoindian and Archaic remains in this portion of the Great Plains are relatively few in number, and may reflect the effects of intensive Altithermal-age...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean D. Cardenas. Cathy Winterrowd.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Dames & Moore, Inc..

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Civitello.

Since 2012, the Valles Caldera National Preserve has partnered with Earthwatch Institute to bring volunteer-scientists into the field to participate in archaeological research. Volunteers stay overnight on the Preserve for 11 days and work side-by-side with Preserve archaeologists to excavate a large obsidian quarry in the heart of the caldera. The volunteers gain skills in applying archaeological methods, while living and working in one of the most spectacular landscapes of northern New Mexico....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Trudy Vaughn. Eric W. Ritter. Dottie Smith.

This report is a compilation of two papers on the history and archaeology of the Shasta County area in Northern California. The two papers are: 1) Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Horsetown Mining Complex, Shasta County, California 2) The Historic Blue Ridge Flume of Shasta and Tehama Counties, California Paper One: In the spring of 1991, historical and archaeological investigations were conducted on approximately 40 acres of federal land managed by the Bureau of Land...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dennis Gallegos. Roxana Phillips, Carolyn Kyle.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Adella B. Schroth. Roxana Phillips, Dennis Gallegos.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Jack Ray. Neal Lopinot.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Sugar Potato site is located on an alluvial fan at the base of the Pinnacles, an eroded upland area that borders the Missouri River floodplain in central Missouri. The lower slopes of the ridges in this area contain residual deposits of high-quality Burlington chert, which were quarried for more than 2,000 years. Test excavations at the Sugar Potato site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brian Hoffman. Chelsea Starke. Forest Seaberg-Wood. Kevin Reider. Liesl Weber Darnell.

Both archaeological and ethnographic evidence supports the idea that the locations of petroglyphs and pictographs are considered sacred. In the Northern Plains of North America, the Jeffers Petroglyphs and similar petroglyph sites along the Red Rock Ridge are part of a landscape which includes habitations, petroforms, lithic reduction sites, and quarries. We report on the results of archaeological fieldwork at four sites along the Red Rock Ridge near the Jeffers Petroglyphs: a habitation site...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

Open Journal of Archaeometry A Florida Archaeological Survey Archaeometry Project in association with laboratory studies at The Institute of Structure of Matter of the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy and the University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, Georgia, United States The provenance of marbles used for making sarcophagi during the Roman period is an important question and scientific analysis can provide a strong confirmation and basis for future studies...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brandi Lee MacDonald.

In coastal and interior British Columbia, ochre was a key component of local traditional knowledge among hunter-fisher-gatherer communities. Ochre pigment quarries are found in alpine, lowland, and alluvial geologic deposits, and each are uniquely storied locations that carry ideas about history, tradition, and place. The procurement, trade, and use of ochre from each of those locations is deliberate, and embedded within a complex set of ideas and decision-making. Provenance-based analysis of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jennifer Rankin. R. Michael Stewart.

The Snyder Site Complex consists of multicomponent prehistoric localities situated on landscapes adjacent to the Delaware River in the river basin's mid-section. Over 30 fluted Paleoindian projectile points or bifaces have been reported from plowed/surface and stratified contexts. This number of diagnostic artifacts is relatively unusual in the context of what is known about other Paleoindian sites in the Delaware River Basin. The Snyder Complex is among the approximately 110 Paleoindian sites...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Keith Myhrer.

In 1983, approximately 4,000 acres in the northwest corner of the Nevada Test and Training Range were segregated to construct a runway, headquarters building, office, and support structures including as a cafeteria to test fly the F-117 Stealth aircraft, a classified mission. The results of the surveys for 4,010 were submitted to the proponents but the project and supporting documentation were classified and not disseminated outside these Departments. The facilities were constructed. Nineteen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Gregory Smith. Charles L. F. Knight.

The nature and degree of interaction between the Classic period centers of Teotihuacan and Cantona is investigated through two types of obsidian artifacts that characterize Early to Late Classic period obsidian use in the central-east highlands of Mexico: prismatic blades and bifacial dart points. At the Zaragoza-Oyameles source area in eastern Puebla, Mexico the recovery of dart point preforms next to obsidian quarries, combined with chemical analysis indicates that these points were crafted at...

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Denton.

Traditionally, Waapushukaamikw (‘house of the hare’) was a sacred site for Cree and closely related Northern Algonquian people in subarctic Quebec. Its use as a place of prayer was noted in the early 18th century CE by Jesuit missionaries, and some elements of this tradition have continued to modern times. Waapushukamikw, known by archaeologists as the Colline Blanche, was also an important lithic source in subarctic Quebec, used for some 6,000 years. Artifacts of Mistassini quartzite from this...