Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group

Datasets uploaded by Eastern Archaic Faunal Working Group Members as part of NSF grant BCS 1430754 between 2014 and 2017.

Site Name Keywords
Koster • Weber 1 (20SA581)

Site Type Keywords
Domestic Structure or Architectural Complex • Domestic Structures • Shell Mound • Resource Extraction / Production / Transportation Structure or Features • Funerary and Burial Structures or Features • Burial Pit • Archaeological Feature • Midden • Burned Rock Midden • Trash Midden

Other Keywords
Faunal Remains Prehistoric

Culture Keywords
Archaic • Middle Archaic • Late Archaic • Early Archaic

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

Material Types
Fauna • Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Fire Cracked Rock • Macrobotanical • Shell

Temporal Keywords
Middle Archaic • Late Archaic • Early Archaic • Archaic

Geographic Keywords
United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • USA (Country) • Green County, Illinois • Ohio County (County) • Kentucky (State / Territory) • Illinois (State / Territory) • Michigan (State / Territory) • Greene County (County) • Saginaw County (County)

Resources Inside This Collection (Viewing 1-6 of 6)

There are 6 Documents within this Collection [remove this filter]

Koster Site, IL (11GE4)
  • EARLY-MIDDLE ARCHAIC SUBSISTENCE STRATEGIES: CHANGES IN FAUNAL EXPLOITATION AT THE KOSTER SITE (1982)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Neusius.

    This study uses faunal remains from Horizons 11-8A of the Koster Site, Greene County, Illinois, as the basis for examining subsistence change during the Early-Middle Archaic transition in the Midwest. Two related issues are considered. First, did significant changes in subsistence strategies occur? Second, what were the probable causes of subsistence change? Current evidence from the lower Illinois River Valley suggests that subsistence change is closely related to changes in settlement or...

Middle Cumberland (TN) Archaeology Project
  • ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF A MULTICOMPONENTSHELL-BEARING SITE IN DAVIDSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE (2012)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Tanya Peres.

    Site 40DV7 is one of several large shell-bearing sites located along the Cumberland River near Nashville which were heavily impacted by catastrophic flooding and looting activity during the spring of 2010. Emergency sampling and ongoing monitoring at 40DV7 since that time have identified deeply-stratified deposits spanning the Archaic through Mississippian periods. These deposits, and particularly the temporally-distinct shell midden components, may help inform our understanding of human...

Individual Resources
  • Instructor's Introduction (2017)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Neusius.

    Introduction to Digital Database Preservation and Integration in Zooarchaeology:

  • Student Exercises (2017)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text Sarah Neusius.

    Student Exercises for Digital Database Preservation and Integration in Zooarchaeology developed by Sarah Neusius as part of the EAFWG project.

Shell Mound Archaeological Project, Green River, Kentucky Weber I Site, MI (20SA581) Project
  • The Lake Nipissing Transgression in the Saginaw Bay region, MI (1986)
    DOCUMENT Full-Text G. William Monaghan. William A. Lovis. Leslie Fay.

    The paper addressing Quaternary levels of the Great Lakes, specifically the Lake Nipissing maximum through consideration of radiocarbon dates, sediment analysis, and geomorphology for the Weber I site. The data supports an estimated date of 4600-4800 BP for the Lake Nipissing maximu.