Landscape Preference and Pre-Contact Site Location Modeling in the Central Plains, USA.

Summary

The Cultural Resource program at Fort Riley provides an ideal setting for developing and testing models for Pre-Contact settlement within the Flint Hills region of the Central Plains. Pre-Contact populations utilized the patchy environmental resources available within the Flint Hills by means of specialized activity locations in varying topographic zones. Many of these small sites have been identified through extensive pedestrian surveys of the Fort Riley Installation. These survey data have been used to test existing site location models in addition to providing more information about the different resource exploitation strategies of Pre-Contact peoples in the region. This broad view of the survey data has both refined and developed new research questions about landscape use within Fort Riley, particularly in regards to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluation process.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 16005