A Statistical Investigation of Landscape Adaptations across the Walker Lake Basin, Nevada

IF 1.6 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY PaleoAmerica Pub Date : 2023-10-02 DOI:10.1080/20555563.2023.2285563
Neil N. Puckett
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ABSTRACT This paper investigates the archaeological record of the Walker Lake basin in western Nevada using a series of statistical tests that compare the distribution of artifacts by age and landscape features. I used the patterns observed to test existing models for mobility, landscape use, and behavioral adaptations for the Great Basin and to place the Walker Lake basin in the context of other regional sub-basins. The results of this study show that the Walker Lake basin generally conforms to broad patterns of landscape use and behavioral adaptations observed in the Great Basin. At the same time, the region shows unique patterns relative to other sub-basins, including upland focused Paleoindian groups, evidence of higher overall mobility, and increased sedentism in the latest period, contra the Carson Sink record. The results provide a model for future work by investigating the entire landscape to broadly define human behavioral adaptations.
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内华达州沃克湖盆地景观适应性统计调查
ABSTRACT 本文通过一系列统计测试,比较了不同年代和地貌特征的文物分布情况,对内华达州西部沃克湖盆地的考古记录进行了研究。我利用观察到的模式来检验大盆地现有的流动性、景观利用和行为适应模型,并将沃克湖盆地置于其他地区次盆地的背景下进行研究。研究结果表明,沃克湖盆地总体上符合在大盆地观察到的景观利用和行为适应的广泛模式。同时,相对于其他分盆地,该地区显示出独特的模式,包括以高地为中心的古印第安人群、整体流动性较高的证据,以及最近时期定居现象的增加,这与卡森沉降记录相抵触。这些结果为今后的工作提供了一个模式,即通过调查整个地貌来广泛界定人类的行为适应性。
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PaleoAmerica
PaleoAmerica Earth and Planetary Sciences-Paleontology
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期刊介绍: PaleoAmerica disseminates new research results and ideas about early human dispersal and migrations, with a particular focus on the Americas. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialog between archaeologists, geneticists and other scientists investigating the dispersal of modern humans during the late Pleistocene. The journal has three goals: First and foremost, the journal is a vehicle for the presentation of new research results. Second, it includes editorials on special topics written by leaders in the field. Third, the journal solicits essays covering current debates in the field, the state of research in relevant disciplines, and summaries of new research findings in a particular region, for example Beringia, the Eastern Seaboard or the Southern Cone of South America. Although the journal’s focus is the peopling of the Americas, editorials and research essays also highlight the investigation of early human colonization of empty lands in other areas of the world. As techniques are developing so rapidly, work in other regions can be very relevant to the Americas, so the journal will publish research relating to other regions which has relevance to research on the Americas.
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