Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff

DOCUMENT Citation Only Matthew Steber.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. In 2022-2024, Chronicle Heritage surveyed 3700 acres along 70 miles of road between Cave Creek, Perry Mesa, and the Verde River on behalf of the Tonto National Forest. The survey resulted in an over 50% increase in the number of known sites in the project area and a 30% increase in the known room count. This area has seen...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas Sain.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Chronicle Heritage has recently completed burial recovery excavations at the Vicksburg National Military Park (VICK) in Vicksburg, Mississippi. This undertaking was in response to a landslide event in February 2020 and continued erosional activity. The initial landslide caused the collapse of a portion of the cemetery’s Section T,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Heather Seltzer-Rogers.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Black Mountain is one of the largest villages in the southern Mimbres valley of southwestern New Mexico and the type site for the Postclassic period (A.D. 1130-1450) Black Mountain phase (A.D. 1130-1300). In 2023, Chronicle Heritage conducted limited data recovery excavations for a compliance-based project at the Black Mountain...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sophie Husslein.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster summarizes the results of Chronicle Heritage’s recently completed South Kaibab Fuels Reduction Class III Project, conducted on behalf of the Kaibab National Forest (KNF) in advance of fire-reduction treatment. The survey covered 12,724 acres of KNF land within the Tusayan Ranger District. As a result of this survey,...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kegan Roady.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The cultural resource management (CRM) industry is growing rapidly, yet there is a widespread shortage of trained CRM professionals and a lack of adequate training opportunities for students. To address this disparity, the PaleoWest Foundation, Chronicle Heritage, and Crow Canyon Archaeological Center have partnered to offer a...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Blaine Burgess.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This poster summarizes Chronicle Heritage’s recent survey of 4,500 acres in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument (GCPNM). The Arizona Strip, particularly the GCPNM, sits at the western edge of the Ancestral Pueblo world, is adjacent to Fremont and Upland Patayan, and is encompassed by the ancestral homelands of the Paiute...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jakob Sedig.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Three themes unite the posters in this session: Innovation, Growth, and Preservation. This poster reviews how Chronicle Heritage’s leadership in the CRM field encompasses these themes. The last few years have seen significant advancements in CRM. Fewer than twenty years ago, most archaeologists were trained to do basic tasks, such...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Natalia Miles.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Data recovery projects in CRM, which typically involve excavation and collection of artifacts and material culture, are inherently destructive processes. The deleterious impact of such projects is amplified when collected objects and archival material are not properly prepped for curation and adequately housed at a repository....

DOCUMENT Citation Only Maximilian Van Rensselaer.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Machine learning is a powerful tool for archaeological sensitivity mapping. This research compares machine learning approaches to Middle and Late Archaic archaeological prediction in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, California and Nevada. Specifically, the analysis seeks to answer whether logistic regression, Random Forest, or...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Shikha Misra.

This is an abstract from the "Recent Archaeological Work by Chronicle Heritage Staff" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Bureau of Land Management contracted Chronicle Heritage to help plan vegetation treatments on a landscape level by creating and utilizing a GIS model that informs planners and management the locations of old growth trees and associated historic properties. This model incorporated existing data on historic landscape modifications,...