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Remembering, Forgetting, and Artifact Deposition in Late Prehistoric Florida
<p>Material culture plays a fundamental role in memory processes. Artifacts are an important means of both connecting with and cutting ties with a real or imagined past. They can be reminders or symbols of connection to other people, places, things, powers, or memories, making them key components …
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The Tichitt Tradition: A Late Prehistoric Occupation of the Southwesternsahara
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The late prehistoric period at the Turn in Kingsway Park, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
… regarding the lifeways in the area during the Late Prehistoric period. It is proposed that the archaeological resources at the Turn, currently regarded as two sites (the Davies and Garratt sites) actually represent a single continuous site which covers the entire floodplain area at the Turn. It …
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Conflict and Culture Change in the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic American Midcontinent
Beginning in the early 1600s, populations were destabilized by the indirect effects of European contact. With new incentives and new weapons (i.e., firearms), old enemies took advantage of weaknesses brought on by disease and famine to wage wars of annihilation. Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes …
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Investigating Ozarks Marginality: A Study of Late Prehistoric Ceramics from the Northern Ozark Highland of Missouri
… habitation in the Missouri Ozark Highland during late prehistory (A.D. 900-1500). Ahler, Kreisa, and Edging (2010) apply the Margin model, a version of the core-periphery-margin model. Application of the margin model to the region is constrained by uncertainty about the type of relationship …
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Geophysical Surveys and Spatial Analysis: Late Prehistoric Period Site Patterning at the Junction Site (DkPi-2)
… picture of how people organized their space in Late Prehistoric Period camps, we need to look at large areas and examine the feature placement as people define the space around them. While excavations are often limited to small areas due to time and cost, geophysical surveys provide a method of …
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Big Men in the Big Black Valley: Small Scale Late Prehistoric Community Organization in Central Mississippi
… and assess the functional role of sites within a late prehistoric period, small-scale Mississippian culture that inhabited the valley from A.D. 1200-1500. The settlement system was characterized by the Old Hoover platform mound (22Ho502) and its outlying non-mound support population of homesteads, …
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Late prehistoric mortuary practices : an analysis of the Bethune, Sisterbutte, Glen Ewen and Moose Bay burials in Saskatchewan
There are four known Late Prehistoric burials in Saskatchewan which demonstrate at least two distinct patterns of mortuary behavior prevalent on the Northern Plains. The Bethune burial located near Bethune, Saskatchewan, is an Avonlea burial dating 1389 +/- 40 years BP. This site is the only …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… culture, most often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage can provide the …
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The Tongue River Bison Jump (24RB2135): The Technological Organization of Late Prehistoric Period Hunter-Gatherers in Southeastern Montana
… culture, most often lithic tools, found at prehistoric bison kills and processing sites allows archaeologists to draw inferences about the technology associated with the procurement of such vital animals. An investigation of bison jump, trap or pound lithic assemblage can provide the …
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Living in a cornfield: The variation and ecology of Late Prehistoric agriculture in the western Kentucky Confluence Region
Mississippian agriculture has been described as successful with periods of instability. Utilizing the productive Mississippi and Ohio floodplains, Mississippian farmers established a three-tiered settlement hierarchy that included towns, villages, hamlets, and farmsteads. Towns were undoubtedly the …
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A zooarchaeological analysis of the Skadeland site (13CK402): a Mill Creek culture occupation in northwest Iowa.
<p>The late prehistoric entity of the Mill Creek cultures underwent extensive research during the 1960s and 1970s to address the effects of climate change on Mill Creek populations in northwest Iowa. Through this research numerous sites have been excavated including the currently unanalyzed site of …
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Past Human Behavior Across Time and Space: The Organization of Lithic Technology at Spring Lake, TX, 41HY160
… human occupation from the Paleoindian to the Late Prehistoric eras. Excavations conducted around the lake have produced numerous artifact assemblages that have been the focus of several research projects. However, many assemblages have yet to be analyzed and an array of questions regarding …
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ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL MEASURES OF RESOURCE INTENSIFICATION AND DEPLETION: EXAMPLES FROM EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
… size and agricultural intensification had on the prehistoric animal ecology of eastern North America is poorly understood. New methods for examining archaeologically recovered faunal remains permit a more detailed understanding of the interaction between humans and their environment. Techniques …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… dates suggest multiple kill events, ranging from Late Archaic to Late Prehistoric. A variety of data were collected, including taxon, osteological element, side, orientation within skeleton, portion, color, size, weathering, and taphonomic or cultural modifications. The taphonomic observations …
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RELATING TAPHONOMIC ANALYSIS OF BISON REMAINS TO CULTURAL AND SPATIAL INFERENCE: A STUDY OF THE FAUNAL REMAINS FROM THE TONGUE RIVER BUFFALO JUMP SITE (24RB2135)
… dates suggest multiple kill events, ranging from Late Archaic to Late Prehistoric. A variety of data were collected, including taxon, osteological element, side, orientation within skeleton, portion, color, size, weathering, and taphonomic or cultural modifications. The taphonomic observations …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… the 1500 years between the end of Lapita and the late prehistoric era - a period of time termed here the 'mid-sequence’. During this interval the relatively homogeneous proto Polynesian Lapita culture of Fiji developed a complex pattern of human variation which differentiated It from West …
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Post-Lapita Fiji: cultural transformation in the mid-sequence
… the 1500 years between the end of Lapita and the late prehistoric era - a period of time termed here the 'mid-sequence’. During this interval the relatively homogeneous proto Polynesian Lapita culture of Fiji developed a complex pattern of human variation which differentiated It from West …
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Subsistence, Technology, and Site Use Through Time at 41HY160, the Tee Box Six Locale
… region in San Marcos is one of the most unique prehistoric archaeological areas in the state of Texas. Five archeological sites make up the core of this culture-rich region: 41HY37, 41HY147, 41HY160, 41HY161 and 41HY165. All are multi-component sites and, as such, offer extensive data on the …
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Prehistoric Sandals of the Southern High Plains: Indicators of Cultural Affinity and Change
… technology used by and possible affiliations of prehistoric people in and immediately adjacent to this region. Specifically, the utilization of similar sandal styles at these sites at different times during the Archaic through Late Prehistoric periods suggests several population movements on the …
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