Download or read book The Mesa Site written by U.S. Department of the Interior and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 96 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. The age of the occupation is constrained by 44 uncalibrated AMS radiocarbon dates covering the interval 11,700 to 9700 years BP. The site lacks evidence of any widespread postdepositional disturbance and, except for a small, discrete manifestation in Locality A, contains no remains of more recent cultures. The composition of the Mesa artifact assemblage and its obvious technological relationship with the Paleoindian cultures of mid-continent North America mark it as distinctly different from other ancient arctic cultures. The presence of the Mesa Complex demonstrates a previously undocumented cultural diversity in Eastern Beringia at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary. This is an interim report. The amount of data generated by the Mesa project is immense. Although we engaged in some analysis and compilation of data as we progressed through the field work, we are not in a position to present this information in its totality. Therefore, limits have necessarily been placed upon the scope of this report so that it can be completed in a reasonable amount of time. While some primary analysis has not been completed, we have enough information to present a report that is more descriptive and introspective than a raw data monograph. In this report, we address the scope of research, order and describe the data analyzed so far, and interpret and summarize the findings to date. This will be accomplished by discussing the following subjects: the culture history of the region and the place of the Mesa Complex within that culture history framework; the natural setting of the site region; the excavation and data collection methods; the description of the site including the natural and cultural stratigraphy, cultural features, localities and activity areas; the flaked stone industry including artifact typology, tool-stone variety, and tool use; the regional Pleistocene faunal assemblage; the regional Pleistocene climate and ecology; and site use.
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 The Mesa Site written by Michael L. Kunz and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 81 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...The composition of the Mesa artifact assemblage and its obvious technological relationship with the Paleoindian cultures of mid-continent North America mark it as distinctly different from other ancient arctic cultures. The presence of the Mesa Complex demonstrates a previously undocumented cultural diversity in Eastern Beringia at the Pleistocene/Holocene boundary.
Download or read book The Mockingbird Mesa Survey Southwestern Colorado written by Jerry Fetterman and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Mesa Hill Site written by George Norman Ruebelmann and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Archaeology of Perry Mesa and Its World written by David R. Wilcox and published by Bilby Research Center. This book was released on 2007 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study intitiated by the Agua Fria National Monument and conducted by the Western Mapping Company and the Museum of Northern Arizona, explores the Perry Mesa site in Yavapai Country, Arizona, documents the collection of artifacts for permanent curation, and includes a history of the research on Perry Mesa and a review of the recent competing theories about how it was organized for war or how the landscape became ecologically degraded. The study also provides an analysis of the relevance of these data to understanding the larger interaction spheres of the Central Arizona Tradition, the Verde Confederacy, and the Hopi macroeconomy.
Download or read book CLIFF DWELLERS OF THE MESA VERDE SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO written by GUSTAF. NORDENSKIOLD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mesa Top Site written by Mary Jane Berman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the spring of 1977, archaeologists from the Cultural Resources Management Division, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, New Mexico State University, excavated an early Mogollon pithouse village lying in the intermontane basin of Gila River Valley between Peloncillo and Summit Mountains of eastern Arizona and western New Mexico ... The following report contains a description of the methodology which was employed to excavate the site, and an analysis of the artifactual and ecofactual material recovered from it.
Download or read book The Archaeology of the Mesa Hill Site written by George Norman Ruebelmann and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book People of the Mesa written by Shirley Powell and published by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Mesa, Arizona, has sheltered human beings for over 8000 years. For two decades, with the support and assistance of the Peabody Coal Company, archaeologists and other scientists have sought an understanding of how and why those ancient peoples lived as they did. Powell and Gumerman, the principal researchers of one of the largest and longest-running projects in the history of North American archaeology, recognize that only parts of past cultures survive to be discovered and analyzed, but they stress that the material items archaeologists do recover can tell us a great deal about the nonmaterial aspects of the culture in which they were used. In four cultural historical chapters Powell and Gumerman focus in turn on each of the major occupations of Black Mesa: the Archaic (6000 B.C.), Basketmaker II (ca. the time of Christ), Puebloan (A.D. 800-1150), and the Navajo (A.D. 1825 to the present). The 125 photographs, 41 line drawings by Thomas W. Gatlin, and 20 pages of full-color illustrations communicate the fascination of archaeological discovery and add an extra dimension to the authors' stories of ancient and modern life on Black Mesa.
Download or read book Mobility and Adaptation written by Shirley Powell and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now archaeologists have been capable of little more than speculation concerning the extent of human mobility in the prehistoric Southwest. According to George J. Gumerman in his Foreword to this book, however, "Shirley Powell's study has changed that. Using a combination of archaeological and ethnological data she has been able to demonstrate that certain periods on Black Mesa in Northeastern Arizona are characterized by great mobility while at other times the Mesa had a more sedentary population. She has taken the question of seasonality in occupation from the realm of speculation to that of testable hypothesis." Powell's major concern throughout this study is with behavior variability. Specifically she addresses the adequacy of "behavioral interpretations of material culture patterns for the Black Mesa region of northeastern Arizona." She notes that sometimes the descriptions from which explanations of variability are based are misleading or incorrect. Examining the relationships "among environment, subsistence, and mobility strategies," she emphasizes the role of seasonability in site locational strategies. Using data derived from ethnographic and ethnoarchaeological sources, she develops a model of subsistence/settlement interrelationships, which she tests by using "material culture remains from prehistoric sites."
Download or read book The Archeological Survey of Wetherill Mesa Mesa Verde National Park Colorado written by Alden C. Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mesas Cliffs and Canyons written by Jack E. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park Cliff Palace written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace' is a historical account by Jesse Walter Fewkes detailing his excavation and repair work on the Mesa Verde ruins. Under his sole charge, Fewkes was able to repair Cliff Palace completely and leave it in a condition where tourists and students could learn more about cliff-dwellings. This book presents a detailed account of Cliff Palace, the largest, most picturesque, and most typical cliff-dwelling in the Southwest. Fewkes also includes a description of the few minor antiquities found during the excavation, now forming the nucleus of a collection from Cliff Palace in the United States National Museum.
Download or read book Archeological Research Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Aviation Airport proposed West Mesa Site Albuquerque written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contributions to Mesa Verde Archaeology Site 449 Mesa Verde National Park Colorado With a chapter on pottery by F C Lister written by Robert Hill Lister and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
