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{"title":"Current Research from Center for the Study of the First Americans Scholars","authors":"Heather L. Smith, Ashley M. Smallwood","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2291601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2291601","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"30 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139000161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Chindadn Bifaces and the Archaeology of Terminal-Pleistocene Alaska","authors":"Angela M. Younie, Ted Goebel, Evelynn Combs","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2285565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2285565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"10 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138585376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Experimental Investigations of Eastern Beringian Hunting Technologies","authors":"Joshua J. Lynch","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2287338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2287338","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"71 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138598363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Topper Site Revisited: Exploring Spatial Organization of Clovis Life at the Quarry","authors":"Ashley M. Smallwood, Albert C. Goodyear, D. Shane Miller, Joan Plummer, Douglas A. Sain, Derek T. Anderson, Thomas A. Jennings","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2270296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2270296","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTTopper is one of the largest buried Clovis sites in North America. The decades of archaeological excavations and analyses of Topper assemblages have informed our understanding of Clovis technology, mobility, settlement, and, more recently, chronology in the American Southeast. In this paper, we use spatial analysis to explore intra-site variation at Topper. We find that distance and elevation from the outcrop influenced the organization of core and biface reduction to some degree, as workshop areas were positioned close to the source. Other areas, closer to domestic spaces, were also provisioned with cores. Analysis of the Alluvial Terrace yielded evidence of spatially segregated campsite activities. The scale of excavation and the extent of the site vicinity – covering 629 m2 and spanning multiple topographic features – offer an unprecedented opportunity to investigate the spatial organization of Clovis life at the quarry.KEYWORDS: ClovisAmerican Southeastquarryspatial analysislithic technology AcknowledgementsWe have great appreciation for the hard-working volunteers who spent many summers with us at Topper: Alison and John Simpson, Darrell Barnes, Bill Covington, Ernest Plummer, DuVal Lawrence, Wes Muckenfuss, Tom and Betsy Pertierra, Bill Lyles, Carol Reed, Jean Guilleux, Judith Scruggs, Leslie Page, Paula Zitzelberger, Steve Williams, Judy Kendall, Leon Perry, Charles Terry, Lynne Nasi, Martha Christy, Neal Konstantin, Tom Cofer, Terry Hynes, Connie White, Erik Shofner, Henry Wilkinson, Rooney Floyd, Lori Smith, Lorene Fisher, Neill Wilkinson, Pat McGinnis, Bob Cole, Cynthia Curry, Elizabeth Allan, Hal Curry, Anita Lehew, Don and April Gordon, and Ann Judd. Thank you for the years of dedication, support, and friendship. We also thank Clariant Corp for their many accommodations from 1996–2013.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAshley M. SmallwoodAshley M. Smallwood (PhD Texas A&M University 2011) is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Louisville. Her research interests include the Paleoindian and Early Archaic records of the American Southeast, hunter-gatherer adaptations, and stone artifact analysis.Albert C. GoodyearAlbert C. Goodyear, III (PhD Arizona State University 1976) is a Research Affiliate for the South Carolina Institute for Archeology and Anthropology. His research interests include Paleoindian and other early prehistoric time periods, the Pleistocene-Holocene transition, lithic technology, and geoarchaeology with a special focus on soil science applications.D. Shane MillerD. Shane Miller (PhD Arizona 2014) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures at Mississippi State University and archaeologist whose main interests are the Ice Age colonization of the Americas and the origins of agriculture in eastern North America.Joan PlummerJoan Plummer is a volunteer and da","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"56 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135430090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Late Pleistocene Faunal Assemblages from Karst Cave Settings on Northern Vancouver Island, Canada","authors":"Duncan McLaren, Rebecca Wigen, Daryl Fedje, Angela Dyck, Christopher F.G. Hebda, Evan Morien, Mikkel Winther Pedersen, Eske Willerslev, Linda Y. Rutledge, McIntyre A. Barrera, Jim Stafford, David Wall, Bryn Letham","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2272120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2272120","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWe present the results of our investigations in karst caves on northern Vancouver Island. This work focuses on late Pleistocene faunal remains and potential archaeological deposits. Our analyses of faunal remains from these caves reveal that a variety of animals have inhabited the region since the Last Glacial Maximum. Pleistocene taxa recovered include black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus), black bear (Ursus americanus), mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus), Vancouver Island marmot (Marmota vancouverensis), wolf/dog (Canis spp.), weasel (Mustela), and frog (Anura). We also report on a previously undescribed diminutive red fox (Vulpes vulpes) which no longer inhabits Vancouver Island. We present the results of sedaDNA analysis of cave sediments which demonstrates promise in supporting the morphological identification of animal remains. The results of this study, combined with previous research, help to constrain the timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and when land became viable to support land mammals on northern Vancouver Island.KEYWORDS: Terminal Pleistocenefaunal communitiesVancouver Islandpaleontologyarchaeology AcknowledgementsMany people helped with various aspects of this project. The authors of this report are grateful to them all. Eric Peterson and Christina Munck of the Tula Foundation and Hakai Institute are thanked for funding this research. The authors also thank Harry Alfred, Spruce Rufus, Leroy Wadhams, Harry Brown, Geza Vamos, Brian Svanvik, Don Svanvik, and Rachel Dalton from the ‘Namgis First Nation; Mark Hunt, Mark Wallas, Tyrone Wallas, Isaac Williams, Sonny Wallas, James Redford, and Charles Sheard, from the Quatsino First Nation; archaeologists Jim Stafford, Alisha Gauvreau, John White, John Maxwell, Daryl Fedje, Quentin Mackie, Angela Dyck, Chris Hebda, Bryn Letham, Callum Abbott, Duncan McLaren, Kennedy Richard, Michael Richards, and Jude Isabella; botanist Richard Hebda; LiDAR specialists Derek Heathfield and the Hakai Geospatial Technology Team, SedaDNA Analysts Mikkel Pedersen, Eske Willerslev, Evan Morien, Chris Hebda, Alisha Gauvreau, and Matt Lemay; ancient mtDNA analysts Dongya Yang, Hua Zhang and the Ancient DNA facility at Simon Fraser University, and Linda Rutledge and Mac Barrera at the Hakai Ancient DNA lab on Quadra Island; radiocarbon analysts John Southon and The W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility; speleologists David Wall and Peter Curtis; karstologists Paul Griffiths and Carol Ramsey; faunal analysts Becky Wigen and Pacific Identifications; and Cathy Rzeplinkski, Jindra Belanger, Ute Muller, Chris Darimont, and April Nowell of the University of Victoria. Eske Willerslev thanks St. John’s College, Cambridge, for providing a stimulating environment of discussion and learning.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Ages presented in this paper are calendar years ago (before AD 1950). Ranges and medians derived from 14C ages","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"14 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135821649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Statistical Investigation of Landscape Adaptations across the Walker Lake Basin, Nevada","authors":"Neil N. Puckett","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2285563","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2285563","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"64 1","pages":"304 - 325"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lithic Technological Organization of the Suwannee Tradition: A View from the Ryan-Harley Site (8JE1004), Florida, USA","authors":"Morgan F. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2283670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2283670","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Suwannee points are an unfluted lanceolate style found on the Lower Southeastern Coastal Plain of North America. Suwannee points are undated but thought to represent a regional, post-Clovis group that lived during the Younger Dryas, with a hypothesized age range of ∼12,700-11,500 years ago based on contextual data. This paper presents analyses of the Suwannee component from Ryan-Harley, the only known discrete Suwannee assemblage. The site is interpreted as representing “gearing up” ahead of a mobility event. The toolkit and assemblage from Ryan-Harley demonstrate that Suwannee people practiced residential mobility and maintained an adaptable, versatile toolkit. However, some elements of the assemblage, like dependence on local tool stone, are more common in logistically organized groups. This mixture of provisioning strategies indicates that the Suwannee assemblage at Ryan-Harley may exhibit the start of a transition toward logistical organization which began after the end of the Younger Dryas in this region.","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"21 1","pages":"346 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Clovis Lifeways Set in Stone: The Contribution of Fluted-Point Morphological Variation","authors":"Heather L. Smith","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2268999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2268999","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past century, researchers have found variation in fluted-point shape and size to be patterned in the Americas. Many of these patterns can be organized by geographical, ecological, and behavioral variables, and have helped formulate our current understanding of some of the earliest cultures to live in the Western Hemisphere. This paper reviews how researchers have assessed patterns in Clovis point morphological variability over the last three decades and discusses types of data used to formulate and test hypotheses concerning how Clovis peoples moved or transmitted cultural information across the landscape, organized, manufactured, and used fluted-point technology, and related to later Paleoindian groups. It concludes by summarizing the contribution studies of Clovis-point form have made to our understanding of Clovis adaptation as part of a greater body evidence that includes genetics, faunal and botanical remains, toolstone characterization, assemblage structure, site formation processes, and paleoenvironmental data.","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"1 1","pages":"269 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Frost Action during the Younger Dryas Inferred from Soil Micromorphology at Connley Cave 5, Oregon","authors":"J. Holcomb, Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, L. Shillito, Dennis L. Jenkins","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2282316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2282316","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Younger Dryas chronozone is an abrupt climate event terminating the last glacial period ∼12,900–11,700 calendar years ago marked by rapid changes in regional human, floral, and faunal population dynamics across the globe. Working at Connley Cave 5 in the Fort Rock Basin, Oregon, we demonstrate that this cold event generated microscopic cryogenic features (frost action) which can be used to identify the presence of the Younger Dryas in the northern Great Basin, shed light on paleoenvironmental conditions, and inform archaeologists about site formation processes occurring across the Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene transition. These data inform us about cryoturbation at Connley Caves and have implications for Younger Dryas-aged archaeological sites preserved throughout the Great Basin.","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"47 1","pages":"289 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139324174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cueva Los Bancos, A New Archaeological Site with Early Occupations in the Southernmost Sector of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas of Argentina","authors":"Rafael Curtoni, Guillermo Heider, Augusto Oliván, María Clara Álvarez, Ivana Ozán, Julián Tobal, Mariángeles Borgo, Alfonsina Tripaldi","doi":"10.1080/20555563.2023.2254131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20555563.2023.2254131","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTWe present new chronological data for the southernmost sector of the Eastern Sierras Pampeanas system of central Argentina. Recent excavations at the Cueva Los Bancos site in Sierra del Morro hill provided a date of ca. 9400 calendar years ago. This is the earliest absolute chronology of this sector, considered an ecotone between mountains and plains. Data provided will allow us to include this site in the discussion of the initial peopling of the region.KEYWORDS: Early Holoceneinitial peoplingecotone landscapeSierras PampeanasSierra del Morro AcknowledgementsThe authors thank the Fernández family for allowing them to enter their property; to Walter Muñoz for guiding them through the landscape; and to Pipera, Dante, Agustín, Eimi, Sol, Valentín and Emilia for collaborating during fieldwork. Also thanks to Gustavo Politis and Laprei (Pretreatment Laboratory for isotopic samples) for managing radiocarbon analyses; to the authorities of the province of San Luis and San José del Morro locality for allowing us to investigate; and to INCUAPA-CONICET for supporting the research and laboratory studies.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the National Agency for Scientific and Technological Research under Grant PICT 2019-03515.Notes on contributorsRafael CurtoniRafael Curtoni is a researcher for the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET). He obtained his degree at the National University of Buenos Aires and his PhD from the National University of La Plata, Argentina. He also has a MA degree from Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He carries out anthropological and archaeological research in the provinces of La Pampa and San Luis from the perspective of landscape anthropology.Guillermo HeiderGuillermo Heider is a researcher for the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), and he obtained his degree and PhD from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. His research interests are lithic technology and human adaptation to arid and semiarid environments through time.Augusto OlivánAugusto Oliván, is a doctoral fellow of the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), and he obtained his degree at the National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He is researching the rock art of the province of San Luis from landscape archaeology and archaeoastronomy.María Clara ÁlvarezMaría Clara Álvarez is a researcher for the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), and she obtained her degree and PhD from the National University of the Centre of Buenos Aires province. Argentina. Her research focuses on the subsistence of human groups in the past, bone technology, and taphonomic studies.Ivana OzánIvana Ozán is a researcher for the Argentine National Research Council (CONICET), and she obtained her degree of Anthropology and PhD of Archaeology at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She work","PeriodicalId":37319,"journal":{"name":"PaleoAmerica","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134969929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}