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

Measurement Column
Count Column
Coded Column
Filename Column
Integration Column (has Ontology)

Table Information: Data

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
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
SHO & CON VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SSP VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
GYP Gypsum period
VARCHAR  Uncoded Value Provenience and Context : Context none none true
PIN-GYP VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PIN VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized 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
PC VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PI DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized 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
R BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T8 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T7 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T6 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T5 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T4 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T3 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T2 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
T1 BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MCD BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Patch VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MD (m) VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Bracket Distance bracket (m)
VARCHAR  Uncoded Value Provenience and Context : Measurement none none true
NDVI DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Landform Landform zone (see Byerly et al. 2020)
BIGINT  Uncoded Value Provenience and Context : Context none none true
Site BIGINT  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
List List order of trinomials
BIGINT  Count Other : ID none none true

Table Information: Headers and Codes

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
Codes VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Description VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Header VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true

Keywords

Material
Ceramic • Chipped Stone • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Shell

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview • Collections Research • Remote Sensing

General
Emerson Lake • Holocene • Hunter–gatherers • MCAGCC • NDVI • Settement patterns • South-Central Mojave Desert

Geographic Keywords
MCAGCC / Mojave Desert

Temporal Keywords
Gypsum • Lake Mohave • Pinto • Saratoga Springs • 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
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: