Applying Mean Thickness Measurements to Newly Recorded Cohonina Sites on the South Kaibab National Forest, Northern Arizona

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As part of the Four Forest Restoration Initiative, Logan Simpson conducted two intensive cultural resource surveys on the South Kaibab National Forest consisting of more than 1,800 acres in the Upper Basin and 5,330 acres to the east of Red Butte, south of Tusayan, Arizona. Logan Simpson employed the mean thickness model developed by Sorrell (2005) to place Cohonina sites on a continuous temporal scale under the hypothesis that San Francisco Mountain Gray Ware (SFMGW) vessels increase in thickness across time (ca. AD 750 to 1200). We applied Sorrell’s regression equation to date single component Cohonina sites through thickness measurements of SFMGW sherds, providing an estimated habitation date for each site. Logan Simpson applied this technique to samples of surficially deposited sherds on all newly recorded single component Cohonina sites identified within the survey areas to obtain dates on surficial assemblages without tree-ring cutting dates (Sorrell et al. 2018). This poster provides the results of our findings and shows the value of using this chronometric dating method as a part of the initial analysis of unexcavated, single component Cohonina sites. This poster will not include any images of human remains or funerary objects.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37512.0