A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management

Part of: Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As archaeological research shifted toward issues at the landscape scale, increasingly sophisticated methods and technologies provided the discipline with refined data that can be applied to the study of the evolution of ecological and cultural systems. In this symposium, we bring together a range of specialists to discuss the role of archaeological data in addressing an array of topics, from the definition of wilderness, water management, mammalian genomes, mammalian range shifts, and shifting landforms. These papers bring time depth to our understanding of past ecological communities and human-environment relationships through interdisciplinary approaches, including archival studies, biogeography, ethnography, geoarchaeology, and zooarchaeology. These case studies provide a more complete understanding of system dynamics for future protection and management.

Other Keywords
Cultural Resources and Heritage Management • Survey • Cultural Resource Management • Landscape Archaeology • Archaic • historical ecology • Geoarchaeology • Zooarchaeology • Paleoethnobotany • Historic

Geographic Keywords
North America: Rocky Mountains • United States of America (Country) • North America (Continent) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Utah (State / Territory) • Nevada (State / Territory) • California (State / Territory) • USA (Country) • North America: California and Great Basin • North America

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  • The Advantages of Landscape-Scale Cultural Assessments for Public Land Management (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Konnie Wescott. Jenn Abplanalp. Lee Walston. Emily Zvolanek. Conner Wiktorowicz.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In response to a recent shift toward a regional landscape-scale approach to resource management on public lands, Argonne National Laboratory in collaboration with multiple federal agencies developed a cultural heritage values and risk assessment strategy to support interagency land-use planning in the...

  • The Application of Strontium Isotopes in Tracking Holocene Bison in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Kenneth Cannon. Ethan Ryan. Houston Martin.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Light and heavy isotopic studies have become an integral tool in understanding the ecology of humans and vertebrates. In migration and mobility studies, strontium isotopes are used to determine if the individual is local to a particular area by comparing the isotopic values from bone and dental enamel...

  • Elk in the Rockies: Interweaving the Ethnographic Present and the Archaeological Past toward More Thoughtful Animal Management (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Dalyn Grindle.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Modern land management in the North American West, including issues like species conservation and cultural resource preservation, is difficult to navigate. Even though both are pillars of land management, the worlds of species conservation and archaeology do not often overlap—though both fields could...

  • Is Yellowstone a Wilderness? The Role of Archaeology in Challenging Contemporary Views of Wild Areas (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas MacDonald.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeologists are in a unique position to challenge the contemporary view of wilderness as defined by the United States in the 1964 Wilderness Act. Following the postmodern critique of William Cronon, Mark David Spence’s 1999 book “Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the...

  • Long-Term and Interdisciplinary Approaches to Water Use and Management in the Mountain West (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Molly Cannon. Anna Cohen.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Water heritage associated with water use and management, including infrastructure like canals, irrigation ditches, and ponds, and intangible heritage like traditions, experiences, stories, and myths, reveals how past and present communities adapt to uncertain climatic and changing social conditions....

  • The Mountain Path: Foraging Strategies and Inter-species symbiosis in the Beartooth Mountains, Montana (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Scott Dersam. Sari Dersam.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Contemporary public land and wilderness management strategies in North America have long indulged the myth of the pristine, untouched ecosystem devoid of human interaction. Modern wilderness areas of the mountain West are not devoid of human influence; rather they represent ecosystems in which an apex...

  • A Paleogenomic Approach toward Reconstructing Bison Evolutionary History (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Jonas Oppenheimer. Beth Shapiro. Ed Green. Greg Wilson. Gregg Adams.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. At the end of the nineteenth century, overexploitation of bison reduced the population from an estimated 30 million to approximately 1,000 individuals. Despite the magnitude of this bottleneck, we do not understand how bison were affected at the genetic level, nor do we know past bison population...

  • Precontact Animal Migrations and Intercept Hunting Strategies (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Craig Lee. Michael Neeley. Elizabeth (Beth) Horton.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Drivelines are a recognizable aspect of indigenously engineered landscapes on the High Plains and Rocky Mountain Front. Frequently associated with bison “kills,” these features are a subject of persistent interest to archaeologists. While the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of many Indigenous...

  • Reanalyzing Dry Creek Rockshelter: A New Path Forward for Idaho Archaeology (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Hoffman. Jake Fruhlinger. Linda Reynard. Erick Robinson.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dry Creek Rockshelter provides important evidence for the deep history of human occupation in the Boise foothills. Our recent reinvestigation of this site suggests a reinterpretation of its occupation history. This work provides a new model for collaboration between archaeologists and Native American...

  • A Tale of Two Projects: Geoarchaeological Investigations along the Shores of Pleistocene Lake Waring in Elko County, Nevada, and the Importance of Early Planning and Collaboration between Public Land Managers, Project Proponents, and Stakeholders (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Stoner. Thomas Lennon. Thomas Bullard. Geoffrey Cunnar. Charles Wheeler.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeological investigations conducted between 2015 and 2021 along the margins of a Great Basin pluvial lake applied multidisciplinary methods that resulted in the identification of significant deeply stratified sites. A geoarchaeological approach that entailed detailed mapping and modeling of the...

  • Wilderness, Wildlife, and Management Misconceptions: Archaeology in Washakie Wilderness NW Wyoming (2023)
    DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence Todd. Daniel Dalmas.

    This is an abstract from the "A Further Discussion on the Role of Archaeology in Resource and Public Land Management" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Since 2002 the Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology (GRSLE) project has undertaken an artifact-based, landscape-scale inventory in the eastern Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, on the Shoshone National Forest in NW Wyoming. Much of the project has been conducted in the Washakie Wilderness and has...