Solving Archaeological Research Problems in Rocky Mountain and Plains Prehistory

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)

Rocky Mountain and Great Plains archaeologists utilize a wide variety of methods to solve research problems in regional prehistory. From lithics to fauna to ethnoarchaeological data and beyond, this symposium highlights current research that advances and solves problems across a wide variety of topics. From the peopling of North America to human adaptation during the altithermal to the rise of agriculture to the complexity of bison hunting, this symposium highlights the diverse state of prehistoric archaeological research in this vast region of the interior of North America.

Other Keywords
Lithics • Cairns • Ethnohistory • Lithic Technology • Chipped Stone Analysis • Obsidian • Hunter-Gatherers • Paleoclimate • Mobility • Game Drives

Geographic Keywords
North America - Plains • North American - Basin Plateau • North America - Southwest

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Documents
  1. Addressing Surface Site Palimpsests with GIS and Lithic Technology (2015)
  2. The American Falls obsidian source: near, far, or unknown? (2015)
  3. Anzick Site Lithics: A Study of Concave Margin Scrapers as an Integral Part of the Clovis Tool Kit (2015)
  4. Archaic Women in the High Country: an Ethnoarchaeological Framework (2015)
  5. The Beaucoup Site: A Bison Kill in Northeastern Montana (2015)
  6. DECIPHERING WPA ARCHAEOLOGY ON THE NORTHWESTERN PLAINS: ANOTHER LOOK AT THE CULTURAL CHRONOLOGY OF PICTOGRAPH CAVE (2015)
  7. Embedded Activities: Preliminary Analysis of Landscape Use and Mobility Patterns in Colorado National Monument (2015)
  8. Exploring Prehistoric Resource Distribution in the Black Mesa Region: A Plains- Montane Ecotone in Cimarron County, Oklahoma (2015)
  9. Geographic and Chronological Differences in Lithic Raw Material Use by Hunter-Gatherers in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2015)
  10. Idaho's Radiocarbon Record and the Challenges of Chronometric Hygiene (2015)
  11. The Landscape Archaeology of the Northwestern Plains: Problems and Potential (2015)
  12. A Multi-Scalar Chipped Stone Analysis in the Northern Rocky Mountains: Comparing the Bridger Mountains, Montana to the Absaroka Mountains, Wyoming (2015)
  13. Multidisciplinary Reconstruction of Interactive Change in Holocene Treeline, Paleoclimate,and High Altitude Hunting Systems in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (2015)
  14. Out of Ice: A Review of Greater Yellowstone Area Ice Patch Hunting Technology (2015)
  15. Paleoindian Use of the Lake Fork Valley, Southwest Colorado (2015)
  16. Rock Art Research and Ethnohistory on the Northwestern Plains and Adjacent Rocky Mountains (2015)