ELCSA Assemblage Dataset
Creator(s): Ryan Byerly
Year: 2022
Summary
This paper briefly explores the archaeological signatures of Early through Late Holocene resource use and hunter-gatherer settlement patterns near Emerson Lake aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center. Investigations of 156 localities along a linear belt of probable plant biomass modelled through Normalized Difference Vegetation Index assessments registered larger, richer, and more diverse assemblages, containing significantly higher frequencies of resource-processing artifacts, such as flake tools and ground stone, nearer this belt than predicted by random distribution, suggesting that hunter-gatherer encampments, reflecting the utilization of recurring abundant seasonal biotic patches, targeted this belt. However, other than upticks in processing artifact numbers and proximity to the belt during the 1,000 years prior to European contact, archaeological assemblage profiles remain comparatively constant, implying little deviation in the way local hunter-gatherers utilized and settled around this landscape throughout the Holocene.
Cite this Record
ELCSA Assemblage Dataset. Ryan Byerly. Granite Bay, CA: Society for California Archaeology. 2022 ( tDAR id: 468070) ; doi:10.48512/XCV8468070
Data Set Structure
Table Information: Data
Column Name | Data Type | Type | Category | Coding Sheet | Ontology | Search |
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Site | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
NDVI | DOUBLE | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
MD (m) | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Patch | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
MCD | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T1 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T2 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T3 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T4 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T5 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Bracket | Distance bracket (m) | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Measurement | none | none | true | |
Landform | Landform zone (see Byerly et al. 2020) | |||||
BIGINT | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
List | List order of trinomials | |||||
BIGINT | Count | Other : ID | none | none | true | |
T6 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T7 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T8 | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
T | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
R | BIGINT | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
PI | DOUBLE | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
PC | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
PIN | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
PIN-GYP | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
SSP | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
SHO & CON | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Era | Single era integrity | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
Comp | Single component integrity | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
GYP | Gypsum period | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
LM | Lake Mohave period | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
CL-LM | Clovis-Lake Mohave era | |||||
VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | Provenience and Context : Context | none | none | true | |
E' | Shannon's eveness index | |||||
DOUBLE | Measurement (other) | Other : Index | none | none | true | |
H' | Shannon's diversity index | |||||
DOUBLE | Measurement (other) | Other : Index | none | none | true |
Table Information: Headers and Codes
Column Name | Data Type | Type | Category | Coding Sheet | Ontology | Search |
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Header | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Description | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Codes | VARCHAR | Uncoded Value | uncategorized | none | none | true |
Keywords
Material
Ceramic
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Chipped Stone
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Ground Stone
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Macrobotanical
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Shell
Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview
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Collections Research
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Remote Sensing
General
Emerson Lake
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Holocene
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Hunter–gatherers
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MCAGCC
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NDVI
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Settement patterns
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South-Central Mojave Desert
Geographic Keywords
MCAGCC / Mojave Desert
Temporal Keywords
Gypsum
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Lake Mohave
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Pinto
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Saratoga Springs
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Shoshonean
Temporal Coverage
Radiocarbon Date: 11700 to 174 (Holocene)
Source Collections
Archeology and Paleontology Curation Center, MCAGCC, Twentynine Palms, CA
File Information
Name | Size | Creation Date | Date Uploaded | Access | |
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Supplemental-Table-A.xlsx | 40.04kb | Jan 13, 2022 | Jan 13, 2022 4:06:07 PM | Public | |
Excel data table with header descriptions.
Translated version
Supplemental-Table-A_translated.xlsx
(24.73kb)
Data column(s) in this dataset have been associated with coding sheet(s) and translated:
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