Developing a Geomorphic and Archaeological History of Painters Flat
Author(s): Denay Grund; D. Craig Young; Douglas Boyle
Year: 2021
Summary
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.
Painters Flat is a small basin along the California/Nevada border and has never been described in literature. This past summer, the Far Western Anthropological Research Group recorded numerous sites spanning the entire chronological sequence for the region. Along with archaeological data, I collected information on landforms, profiles, and outcrops to reconstruct the basin’s hydrographic history. I correlate archaeological site distribution to the basin’s hydrologic history to determine how climatic changes from the Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene to the Middle Holocene affected settlement-subsistence strategies. I also compare my results to nearby larger lake systems to understand how these smaller hydraulic systems–and the humans living in them–responded differently to climate change.
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Developing a Geomorphic and Archaeological History of Painters Flat. Denay Grund, D. Craig Young, Douglas Boyle. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467534)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
North America: California and Great Basin
Spatial Coverage
min long: -124.189; min lat: 31.803 ; max long: -105.469; max lat: 43.58 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 32768