A diachronic perspective on Great Basin projectile point morphology from Veratic Rockshelter, Idaho

Keene, Joshua

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.01.047

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“…The Bison Rockshelter and Veratic Rockshelter assemblages were excavated between 1960 and 1961 (Swanson 1972). Deeply stratified deposits from these rockshelters reflect intermittent occupations since at least 9950–9500 cal BP (Keene 2016) and have contributed to the development of well-dated regional projectile-point chronologies (Butler 1978; Holmer 1986, 2009; Keene 2016).…”

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The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West

Welker

Byers

2019

Am. Antiq.

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Historically, domestic dogs(Canis familiaris)have been documented as central features of Intermountain West and Great Plains Native American camps. Some of these dogs were bred specifically for largeness and stamina to haultravoisand to carry pannier-style packs. Ethnographic accounts frequently highlight the importance of dogs in moving through the Intermountain West and the plains, reporting loads as heavy as 45 kg (100 lbs). We calculated body mass from skeletal morphometric data and used these to estimate prehistoric and historic dog load capacities for travois and pannier-style packs in the Intermountain West, Great Plains, and Great Basin. Specimens of large dogs recovered from sites in the Birch Creek Valley in Idaho and on the Great Plains indicate the animals could carry weights comparable to ethnographically recorded loads. Further, direct dating of the Birch Creek dog specimens indicated that dogs of this size have been present in the Intermountain West for more than 3,000 years. These data have important implications for our understanding of prehistoric mobility in the Intermountain West and the plains and suggest that the use of dogs in transporting cargo may have begun as early as 5,000 years ago.

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The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West

Welker

Byers

2019

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“…Two examples are sufficient to illustrate the latter point. First, while SFU and NWROSL's sampling locations for the "American Falls" group are restricted to a small area near American Falls, ISU and GRL have located deposits of obsidian from this group over 80 kilometers away on the opposite side of the eastern Snake River Plain (Arkush and Hughes 2018;Keene 2018a). Following Sappington (1981a), ISU and GRL refer to this source group as the "Walcott Tuff" (in reference to the geologic unit it is derived from) to avoid conflation of the geochemical group with its most well-known source locale.…”

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“…Yet these groups are often mapped as singular point locations for illustrative purposes or to facilitate simple estimates of distance and direction to source (e.g. Fowler 2014;Henrikson 2008;Holmer 1997;Keene 2018b;Page and Duke 2015;Plager 2001;Reid 2014;Scheiber and Finley 2011). While some degree of generalization is often needed to produce a legible map, this has occasionally resulted in serious confusion on the part of scholars dependent upon XRF specialists when results appear to suggest abnormally high use of a thought-to-be distant source (e.g.…”

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“…We identify the Kilgore Tuff as the parent ignimbrite of the "Packsaddle" and "Deadhorse Ridge" source groups. Obsidian referred to as the "Packsaddle" group by ISU and GRL has been reported at several sampling locations over a wide area encompassing the Centennial Range, the northern Big Hole Range, and the Caribou Range (Bailey 1992;Black 2015;Arkush and Hughes 2018;Keene 2018a). We were unable to relocate NWROSL's source locale at "Deadhorse Ridge" (Skinner 2011b;Black 2015), but the Kilgore Tuff is the only ignimbrite known to outcrop at higher elevations in the Caribou Range (L. A.…”

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The geology, geochemistry, and geographic distribution of southern Idaho obsidian

Pink

2023

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The Snake River Plain Volcanic Province of Southern Idaho is host to an abundance of pyroclastic obsidian deposits that constitute the principal lithic raw material utilized by Native Americans of the region throughout the Precontact Period. Archaeologists have long looked to obsidian as a source of information on past patterns of raw material selection, landscape use, and mobility through geochemical analysis of obsidian artifacts and lithic raw materials. Formation of the Snake River Plain through cataclysmic "super-eruptions" of the Yellowstone hotspot, however, presents one of the most complex and poorly understood obsidian source-scapes of North America. To clarify the geographic distribution of Southern Idaho obsidian source groups, the INL CRMO has compiled a comprehensive reference library of geologic obsidian from 138 source locales distributed across the southern half of the state. In this report, we define 28 geochemically distinct obsidian source groups that occur at these deposits through Xray Fluorescence spectrometry and contextualize the geographic distribution of each source group relative to the history of silicic magmatism on the Snake River Plain. This research facilitates ongoing investigations at the INL CRMO into patterns of obsidian procurement, conveyance, and exchange in Southern Idaho throughout the Precontact Period.

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“…Dates calibrated using Calib 4.4 IntCal20 at 2σ. I assumed a "short chronology" (after 3200 cal BP) for Elko series points, reflecting interpretations by past excavators; however, a "long chronology" has been identified in the eastern Great Basin (8000-500 cal BP;Keene 2018;Smith et al 2013). a Age based on photographs of diagnostic points analyzed by this author afterThomas (1981), and known ages for those point styles.b…”

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Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry

Coe

2023

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Perishable artifacts are invaluable tools for reconstructing past lifeways of hunter-gatherers, and when preserved in arid settings, they can inform on dynamic interactions between communities and the environment. Many such materials were recovered from early archaeological surveys in Utah and Nevada but were largely excluded from contemporary analyses because of small sample sizes, their fragmentary nature, and insecure proveniences. This synchronic reanalysis of cordage and coiled basketry from 10 late Holocene sites in the Great Salt Lake Desert utilizes newer approaches to perishables analysis so as to collect data more conducive to statistical comparisons of subsistence and craft traditions absent from earlier Great Basin studies. Regional trends of conformity of fine cordage contrasted with a diversity of basketry manufacture suggest contemporaneous social stressors directing the production of materials and two potentially gendered subclasses of utilitarian objects. Feminine and masculine perishable crafts in the Bonneville Basin follow separate manufacturing traditions, observable despite small sample sizes and poor dating of these curated collections.

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A diachronic perspective on Great Basin projectile point morphology from Veratic Rockshelter, Idaho

Cited by 8 publications

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The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West

The Birch Creek Canids and Dogs as Transport Labor in the Intermountain West

The geology, geochemistry, and geographic distribution of southern Idaho obsidian

Gendered Crafts in the Great Salt Lake Desert: A Comparative Analysis of Late Holocene Cordage and Coiled Basketry

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