Determining Site Depositional Sequences and Teasing Data out of High-Use Areas in Multiple Occupation Sites

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Occupational sequences in rock shelters, houses, and public spaces are difficult to separate from one another when multiple occupations have occurred at the same place over time. In this presentation, we will compare the stratigraphic complexity of an historical site that was burned and then rebuilt and then demolished and ultimately became a park with that of a 13,000 year old rock shelter that was continually reused until 150 BP. The compression of the soil and the commingling of artifacts from earlier and later occupations is remarkably similar. This presentation will put forward what we have learned about the cultural and natural depositional sequences in these two high-use areas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 52252