Site Formation Processes at the Spring Valley Site (23CT389), Ozark National Scenic Riverways, Southeast Missouri

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Spring Valley site (23CT389) is a stratified, multicomponent site associated with a co-alluvial fan in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, southeast Missouri. Temporally diagnostic bifaces indicate components dating from the Middle Paleoindian to the Middle Archaic periods (ca. 10,800-5,500 14C yr BP). A detailed study of site formation process at 23CT389 included (1) description of soils and sediments, (2) particle-size analysis, (3) coefficient of linear extensibility, (4) radiocarbon dating, (5) limited refit analysis, (6) limited debitage analysis, and (7) three-dimensional spatial analysis of piece-plotted artifacts. Results indicate some mixing of artifacts, particularly translocation of smaller artifacts such as debitage under ½" in size. However, larger materials, such as bifaces, have maintained some vertical and horizontal integrity. Also, a Dalton and an Early Archaic occupation surface are well defined in the stratigraphic sequence.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 24783