A Synchronic Perspective of Early Holocene Occupation at the Cooper’s Ferry Site in Western Idaho

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Cooper’s Ferry Site (10IH73) in western Idaho provides a unique synchronic perspective into the lives of the Western Stemmed Tradition (WST) people in the late Pleistocene/early Holocene period. Pit cache features previously excavated at the site provide key information and reliable dates to inform the understanding of the lifeways of individuals who occupied the lower Salmon River canyon. Pit Feature 111, in Area B of the Cooper’s Ferry site, has been dated to ~9505 ± 38 BP (10,827–10,653 cal yr BP) and contains an assemblage of WST projectile points, various lithic tools, debitage, and faunal remains. My morphometric analysis of the WST points from the pit feature reveal details about the blade and hafting characteristics of early Holocene stemmed points. Analysis of the lithic debitage and faunal remains within the pit feature will provide further information on subsistence strategies and technological pattern from this period. I will compare the F111 assemblage to other early pit features from the Cooper’s Ferry site, providing an understanding of how technologies are learned, shared, and adapted over time.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology from Western North America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35954.0