Rockshelter (Site Type Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four charcoal samples from sites 42Cb2316 and 42Em15 were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These sites are located in Range Creek Canyon, eastern Utah, and represent Fremont habitation sites. In addition, a portion of juniper bark from a mat with a whole black-on-white jar sitting on it from the Mikkelson Site (ML 4764) was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. The mat with the jar was partially buried beneath the surface in a small rockshelter with a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Feature fill and stratigraphic soil samples were submitted for phytolith analysis from a rockshelter site, 15BR247, located in Breathitt County, Kentucky. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to better understand what the environment was like during the occupation of the site, and to identify any microbotanical remains from areas within and in front of the shelter. Macrophysical climate modeling was employed to generate a model of past climate for the area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Oscar L. Mallory.

In earlier issues of Progress the gains in knowledge of the village dwellers of the Missouri River have been discussed and described. For this report attention will be directed to the earlier, technologically less sophisticated, hunter and gatherers who inhabited the Plains from about 2,000-7,000 years ago. This document contains a brief overview of those who inhabited the Plains and calls for a full investigation of the mountain refuge hypothesis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Marie Cottrell. Clement W. Meighan. Ronald H. Towner.

This report presents the results of rock art recording and analysis, and archaeological test excavations in two small rockshelters on the Fort Huachuca military reservation in southeastern Arizona. The sites were investigated as part of the Legacy Resource Management Program Demonstration Project #21 under the auspices of the Department of Defense, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District. The Garden Canyon Pictograph Site (AA EE:11:15, ASM) and Rappell Cliffs Rockshelter (AZ...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel Rafuse. Agustina Massigoge.

Despite a notable increase in recent decades of archaeological knowledge from the southeastern Pampas, there is little information for the late Pleistocene-Early Holocene period. The current archaeological information comes mostly from rockshelters located in the eastern portion of the Tandilia Range, dating from ca. 11,000 and 10,000 years 14C AP. To expand the archaeological information for this early time period, we have been conducting surveys since 2012 in the upper Quequén Grande River...

IMAGE Christopher von Nagy. Mary Pohl. Joseph Gamble.

Imágenes fotográficas, computacionales, y compuestas adjuntas al informe técnico Proyecto sobre la escritura temprana. Arte, cosmovisión y símbolo en la evolución de la complejidad mesoaméricana. Estudios de las cuevas de Oxtotitlán y Cahuaziziqui,Guerrero, México, Primera temporada (Enero 2012). Christopher L. von Nagy y Mary D. Pohl.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Macrofloral and phytolith analysis was conducted on a sample of matting material recovered from the Eagle Point Site (5RB4662), a rockshelter/overhang located along Piceance Creek in northwest Colorado. This shelter experienced multiple occupations, with radiocarbon ages ranging from 2510 to 1010 BP. The roof/overhang has collapsed; therefore, cultural deposits are exposed and eroding away. Excavations at the site have been ongoing for several years. PRI has previously conducted archaeobotanical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples and lithic artifacts were analyzed from two boulder rock shelters at Site AZ U:5:18(ASM) in central Arizona. A soil sample also was examined from a ramada outside the rock shelters. Diagnostic artifacts recovered from these two rock shelters suggest multiple occupations ranging from the Late Archaic through Hohokam into Yavapai/Apache. Soil samples were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains that are used to provide information concerning plant resources that were utilized...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Cynthia Adkins. R.A. Varney.

Pollen, phytolith, starch, macrofloral, and protein residue analyses were conducted on numerous samples from a variety of archaeological sites in Ashley National Forest, Utah. Sites range In elevation from approxlmately 6100 feet to 9000 feet. In addition, a single shell was submitted for identification. Botanical analyses focused on recovery of information that might indicate economic activity. In addition, the pollen record was expected to provide information concerning local vegetation. A...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathy Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from five archaeological sites in southwest Utah were submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis to provide information concerning plant resources utilized at the various sites. Artifacts from three of the sites were analyzed for possible protein residues to determine use of animal resources. Sites 42Ws2871 and 42Ws2872 are located within the city limits of St. George. Site 42Ws2871 is a rock shelter with numerous associated features. A conventional radiocarbon age of 310 ± 40 BP,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-030-2147 is a small rockshelter situated in the foothills of the Klamath Mountains near the town of Hornbrook in Siskiyou County, California. The rockshelter was occupied between the late prehistoric and early historic period. A sample collected from the shelter was submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis to identify evidence of local vegetation and possibly use. In addition, a “pinch” sample was collected in the vicinity of the shelter to provide control for the pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Two sites in Ventura County, California were sampled for pollen, phytoliths, protein residue, and macrofloral remains. Site CA-VEN-477 appears to have been occupied during the Middle to Late Period (after 1000 B.C.), and was situated on a low knoll overlooking a drainage at the mouth of a canyon. Two pollen, two phytolith, two protein residue, and four macrofloral samples were examined from this site. Pollen, phytolith, and protein residue samples were examined from the wash of a mano and an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Residue from a stone pipe associated with a human burial at the Darkmold Site near Durango, Colorado was examined for pollen, starch, and phytolith remains, as well as organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). Organic residue analysis is used to detect molecular remains from plant and animal resources that might have been smoked and/or packed in the pipe for burial.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Rio Ibáñez 6W site is a rockshelter located in the southern Andean region, Aisén, Chile. Deposits at the site have been dated to between approximately 6000 and 300 cal BP. Five lithic tools recovered from the site were submitted for protein residue analysis.

PROJECT Christopher von Nagy. Mary Pohl.

Este proyecto de documentación del arte rupestre y muralismo medio formativo en el estado de Guerrero, México tiene el objetivo de creer una serie de imágenes de alta resolución además de imágenes compuestas y computacionales para facilitar estudios sobre la iconografía y la escritura temprana durante este período clave mesoamericano. Enfocamos en los sitios Oxtotitlán (Cerro Quiotepec), Juxtlahuaca, y Cahuaziziqui. This middle formative muralism and rock art documentation project in the...