Early Holocene Site Structure at the Little Steamboat Point 1 Rockshelter, Oregon

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Early Holocene component at Little Steamboat Point 1 (LSP-1) Rockshelter consists of flaked stone tools, debitage, ground stone, fire-affected rock, and abundant animal bones. It indicates suggest that people systematically butchered ~1,000 rabbits and hares, constructed cooking features, occasionally processed plants, and manufactured and discarded stone tools over a brief but intense interval. Given this high-resolution record, we focused on addressing questions related to how many people used the site, how often they visited the site during the Early Holocene, and how they organized their activities inside the shelter. We developed a stratigraphic dating model and employed spatial analytic techniques including Ripley’s K and k-means cluster analysis. Our results indicate that small groups reoccupied the shelter over a 175-420-year period, concentrating their activities in different parts of the shelter over time. Patterning in stone tool discard and cooking activities are consistent with ethnographic accounts of rockshelter use.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• SAA 2021: General Sessions

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Abstract Id(s): 32864