Open Air Camps of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: Intra-Camp Spatial Organization, Activity Areas, and Technology

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

Open air camps from the terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene are rare and pose significant challenges in excavation, analyses, and interpretation. This international symposium brings together case studies of camp sites that provide a means to summarize and discuss current understandings of these important sites. This global discussion provides the opportunity to collaborate on challenges and interpretations. In this symposium we survey intra-site patterning of activity areas, including habitation structures, toward the goal of defining the diversity in site structure and activities.

Other Keywords
Spatial Analysis • Paleoindian • Folsom • Geoarchaeology • Mammoth • Site Formation • Activity Area • Camp • Dwellings • Bison Antiquus

Geographic Keywords
North America (Continent) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Colorado (State / Territory) • Utah (State / Territory) • USA (Country) • Republic of Turkey (Country) • Republic of Armenia (Country) • Georgia (Country)

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  1. Analytical Challenges Posed by the Early Holocene / Late Paleoindian Activity Areas at the Water Canyon Site, West-Central New Mexico: How Do We Know What We Think We Know? (2017)
  2. Boca Negra Wash: Investigating Activity Organization at a Shallowly Buried Folsom Camp in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico (2017)
  3. Bull Creek: A Paleoindian Camp in the Oklahoma Panhandle (2017)
  4. Functional and Organizational Variation Among Late Mesolithic Sites in Southwestern Germany (2017)
  5. Knapping flint on a brush hut floor: An example from Ohalo II, a 23000 year-old camp in Israel (2017)
  6. Late Pleistocene Campsites of the Transbaikal, Siberia (2017)
  7. New Excavations at the La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming (2017)
  8. A new look at camp organization in open-air Late Pleistocene sites in the southern Levant (2017)
  9. Open Air Camps of the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene: An Introduction (2017)
  10. Open Air Site Formation in Low Deposition Environments (2017)
  11. The Paleolithic Site Marita in Eastern Siberia:New discoveries and new situation (2017)
  12. The Spatial Statistics of Owl Ridge: Identifying Activities and Camp Use (2017)