A Landscape Approach to the Development of Minimally Invasive Methods for Site Assessment in Eastern Wyoming

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part Two)" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Camp Guernsey's North Training Area (NTA) is located within the Hartville Uplift of eastern Wyoming, an area rich in archaeological resources, particularly extensive formations of toolstone-quality raw materials. Because of the potential for live training exercises to impact cultural resources, the Wyoming National Guard proposed the development of an experimental testing protocol for selected sites using minimally invasive methodologies that included geophysics and small-diameter auger probes. Minimally invasive testing was proposed for sample areas within a range of site types from a variety of landforms to assess the National Register of Historic Places significance of these areas within a landscape framework. The project results assess the utility of nested geophysical survey methodologies and flighted, hollow-stem, and hand-bucket auger techniques to test linkages between geomorphic settings and archaeologically preserved materials to answer questions about past human behavior in this dynamic landscape.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Geoarchaeology Within the Context of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) Today (Part Two)

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Abstract Id(s): 52416