Download or read book Developing a Predictive Model for the Location of Paleo Indian ca 11 000 B P Sites Relative to the Early Post pleistocene Glacial Lake Environment in the Upper Connecticut River Valley written by C. Colby Bent and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Predictive Model of Paleo Indian Subsistence and Settlement written by Frank J. Krist and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Paleoindians of Yellowstone Lake Interpreting Late Pleistocene Early Holocene Hunter gatherer Land use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem written by Douglas H. MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, numerous Paleo-Indian sites have been identified at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, North America?s largest, high-elevation natural lake. This study presents results of University of Montana research between 2009 and 2016 at 25 sites that provide information regarding human use of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene. Despite the recovery of Clovis evidence at Yellowstone Lake, Early Paleoindians rarely visited the region, likely due to difficult post-glacial environmental conditions. After 10,000 BP, upon ameliorating climate changes, Late Paleoindian Cody complex hunter-gatherers increased use of the lake area. In order to better understand regional travel patterns, this study compares lithic raw material and tool use between the Fishing Bridge Peninsula and Osprey Beach Late Paleoindian Cody complex sites. The paper?s conclusion discusses the implications of the research on Paleoindian use of the high-elevation Rocky Mountain region.

Download or read book The Paleo Indian Occupation of the Holcombe Beach written by James E. Fitting and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1966-01-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Building a Predictive Model for Paleoindian Archaeological Site Location Using Geographic Information Systems written by Zachary Jaime and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research is a multi step method to predict unknown Paleoindian archaeological site locations within Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, situated in the southeastern corner of the state, using a Geographical Information System (GIS). The GIS technology is being used to predict Paleoindian archaeological site locations and will help demonstrate the geographic similarities and differences between already known Paleoindian archaeological sites and random non-site locations in the Pine Bluffs region. Using GIS, one can note the similarities and differences between the Paleoindian sites and the surrounding landscape and, with the help of logistic regression analysis, one can predict the location of unknown Paleoindian sites.

Download or read book Late Palaeo Indian Great Lakes written by Lawrence J. Jackson and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles by prominent archaeologists and geological scientists shed new light on the late Palaeo-Indian cultures of the Great Lakes during a time of staggering environmental change and challenge, as the ice sheets retreated northward. The human response to the dramatic environmental upheaval produced unique cultural patterns, which we are just beginning to understand.

Download or read book Paleoindian Predictive Model for Yellowstone National Park written by Matthew R. Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greater Yellowstone Region was a destination for nomadic hunter-gatherers for at least 12,000 years. Archaeological sites representing the whole spectrum of time, cultures, and activities, have been found throughout the region. Within Yellowstone National Park a number of Paleoindian projectile points and other related cultural materials have been recorded, however, only a handful of buried Paleoindian sites have been identified and excavated. Considering the nature of the archaeological record in the area, some interesting questions surface about the value of the information recorded on the Paleoindian sites. In terms of Yellowstone National Park (YNP) Paleoindian archaeology, is it possible to use the existing Paleoindian sites to make inferences about the landscape choices of Paleoindian cultures? Can the relationship between the location of known Paleoindian sites and the environment be modeled using quantitative methods? If so, is it possible to use the information about land use patterns derived from a known set of sites to find additional, currently unknown, Paleoindian sites? This paper attempts to answer those questions through the development of an archaeological predictive model, focused on Paleoindian sites, for Yellowstone National Park. Utilizing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and statistical software, a probability model has been created that relates the existence or nonexistence of Paleoindian cultural materials with sixteen selected environmental features. The model output classifies areas within YNP through a set of environmental characteristics favorable for finding Paleoindian cultural material.

Download or read book Foragers of the Terminal Pleistocene in North America written by Renee Beauchamp Walker and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but one of the subsistence strategies the first humans in the New World employed and that they also relied on foraging and fishing.

Download or read book The Spatial Organization of Paleoindian Populations in the Late Pleistocene of the Northeast written by Mary Lou Curran and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Through Stones and Bones written by Geoffrey M. Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Great Basin archaeology has evolved over the past century so too have researchers' views of the region's early inhabitants. Traditional models of Paleoindian adaptation based on studies of lithic technology and apparent associations between artifacts and Pleistocene fauna stressed high mobility and big-game hunting; however, additional research has shown that most evidence for big-game hunting and/or scavenging in the region is specious. Furthermore, the discovery of additional subsistence residues suggests that early groups exploited a wide variety of resources similar to later groups. As a result, many researchers now refer to Paleoindian groups as Pre-Archaic (which stresses adaptive discontinuity across time but downplays big-game hunting) or Paleoarchaic (which stresses adaptive continuity across time). Although terms like Paleoindian, Pre-Archaic, and Paleoarchaic are widely employed by Great Basin researchers, it remains unclear if and how the adaptive strategies of early groups differed from those employed by later groups. Most studies of diachronic shifts in the archaeological record are either site-specific or are based on general impressions. This dissertation seeks to remedy this issue and uses empirical data from multiple sites across the region to compare terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene (TP/EH) (pre-7,500 radiocarbon years ago [14 C B.P.]) and later Holocene (post-7,500 14 C B.P.) assemblages from several perspectives. First, it uses source provenance data from the analysis of obsidian projectile points to assess a recent model of Paleoindian lifeways that suggests early groups were highly mobile and occupied expansive foraging territories. The results indicate that although not as "hyper mobile" as some researchers have suggested, Paleoindian groups were nevertheless more mobile than later Archaic groups. This shift likely occurred in response to changing environmental and demographic conditions during the Holocene. Second, the dissertation again uses source provenance data to estimate relative occupation span at Paleoindian and later Archaic sites. The results of that analysis accord well with those of the first analysis and suggest that occupations were brief and residential mobility was high before ca. 7,500 14 C B.P. Although variable, occupations generally lengthened and residential mobility decreased after 7,500 14 C B.P. Again, these results indicate that significant differences existed between Paleoindian and Archaic lifeways. Finally, the dissertation compares subsistence residues from TP/EH and middle Holocene assemblages. The results suggest that in general, early and later subsistence strategies did not differ significantly but also suggest that middle Holocene groups may have occupied sites for longer periods of time than their predecessors. As a whole, the analyses conducted as part of this dissertation do suggest that Paleoindian and Archaic lifeways differed in major ways and that the longstanding emphasis on distinguishing Paleoindian adaptation from later Archaic adaptation is merited, although we still need to develop models can that fully account for the trends present in the archaeological record of the Great Basin.

Download or read book Geoarchaeological Investigations Into Paleoindian Adaptations on the Aucilla River Northwest Florida written by Jessi Halligan and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation addresses how Paleoindians used the karst drainage of the Aucilla River in northwestern Florida during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition (approximately 15-10,000 14C yr B.P.). I take a geoarchaeological approach to discuss Paleoindian land use by first defining the Late Pleistocene and Holocene geological record, and then by creating a model of site formation processes in the Aucilla River. Both underwater and terrestrial fieldwork were performed. Underwater fieldwork consisted of hand-driven cores and surface survey, vibrocoring, underwater 1 x 1 m unit excavation, and controlled surface collection. Terrestrial fieldwork consisted of shovel and auger test pits. Seventeen cores were collected from five different submerged sinkhole sites, which were used to select two sites for further study: Sloth Hole (8JE121), which had been previously excavated, and Wayne's Sink (8JE1508/TA280), which was recorded but not formally investigated. Five vibrocores and two 1 x 1m units were used, with previous research, to define the geological and geoarchaeological context of Sloth Hole. Fifteen vibrocores, six 1 x 1 m excavation units, and ten 1 x 1 m surface collection units were used to define the geological, geoarchaeological, and archaeological context of Wayne's Sink. A combination of 130 shovel and auger test pits was used to define the geological, geoarchaeological, and archaeological potential of the terrestrial landscape. Five new Holocene-aged terrestrial sites were recorded. All of these data were evaluated with archival data from previously-excavated sites to create models of site formation and Paleoindian land use in the lower Aucilla Basin. This research shows that there have been four major periods of sinkhole infill in the lower Aucilla basin. The first occurred prior to the Last Glacial Maximum, with each sinkhole containing peat deposits that date in excess of 21,000 calendar years ago (cal B.P.). These peats are overlain by sandy colluvium that dates to approximately 14,500 cal B.P. The colluvium is overlain by clays that contain evidence for soil formation. These soils vary in age, with radiocarbon dates of approximately 14,500-10,000 cal B.P. These clays are directly overlain by peats dating to 5,000-3,500 cal B.P., which are overlain by peats and clays that date to 2,500-0 cal B.P. Intact Paleoindian and Early Archaic deposits are possible in the late Pleistocene soils.

Download or read book The Mesa Site written by Kunz and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1978 and 1999, excavations in arctic and western Alaska have revealed the presence of Paleoindians during terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene times, ca. 12,000 to 9500 years BP (Before Present). The Type Site for this cultural manifestation, the Mesa Site, is located on the northern flank of the central Brooks Range at N68° 24.72 W155° 48.02, amid rolling foothills that extend northward 40 miles to the Colville River. The site lies atop a mesa-like ridge that rises 180 feet above the floor of the Iteriak Creek valley, offering an unobstructed 360° view of the surrounding treeless countryside. Excavation at the site has produced the remains of more than 450 formal flaked stone tools and over 120,000 pieces of lithic debitage, which comprise an assemblage typical of the "classic" Paleoindian cultures of the North American High Plains. More than 150 of the artifacts are the complete or fragmentary remains of lanceolate projectile points, many of which have been recovered from within the charcoal/soil matrix of discrete hearths which are the central features of numerous activity areas.

Download or read book River of History written by John O. Anfinson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sandy Ridge and Halstead Paleo Indian Sites written by Lawrence J. Jackson and published by U OF M MUSEUM ANTHRO ARCHAEOLOGY. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book From Kostenki to Clovis written by Olga Soffer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American Side I went to the USSR for the first time in 1982 to attend the 11th meeting of the International Union for Quaternary research (INQUA) held at the Moscow State University. At that time relations between our two countries were anything but congenial and many restrictions were placed on our viewing the archaeological and paleontological collections and labora tory facilities. This was not the ideal climate for the free exchange of ideas needed for meaningful research. However, it was obvious to us that the strained relations did not extend to scientific discussions between scholars. We left that meeting well aware that if the problems of prehistoric Old World-New World relationships were to be resolved, it would eventually require cooperative research efforts within the world community of archaeologists. At that time, the pre-Clovis problem in New World archaeology was foremost in the minds of many North American researchers: tool technology and assemblages were being studied as a possible means of establishing cultural relationships across the Bering Strait, Clovis sites and mammoth kills were being looked at with new ideas for interpretation, and New World researchers realized that to resolve these questions they had to become familiar with the archaeological record of northeast Asia. A chance meeting of the writer with Olga Soffer in 1983 led to serious discussions of the sites on the Russian or East European Plain.

Download or read book Paleoindian Or Paleoarchaic written by Kelly E. Graf and published by . This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers previously presented at a symposium during the 70th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology held in 2005 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Download or read book Environments and Extinctions written by Jim I. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 papers using new conceptual frameworks to interpret late Quaternary cultural and environmental remains. Chapters are composed largely of the proceedings of a symposium held at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 1982.