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Prehistoric Obsidian Quarry Use And Technological Change In The Western Great Basin

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Author : Brian Anthony Ramos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000

Prehistoric Obsidian Quarry Use And Technological Change In The Western Great Basin written by Brian Anthony Ramos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Hydration rind dating categories.

Prehistoric obsidian quarries in the western Great Basin show peak levels of use ca. 3150-1350 B.P. immediately followed by sharp declines in overall volume and a shift away from biface production. The models developed to explain this pattern either view quarry use as part of a trans-Sierra Nevada luxury exchange network with central and southern California populations as primary consumers, or as utilitarian toolstone procurement responding to western Great Basin settlement patterns and mobility. Obsidian hydration dates obtained on artifacts systematically collected from the Truman/Queen source demonstrates a history of use similar to other sources, suggesting that regional changes in western Great Basin obsidian quarry use was not the result of trans-Sierra Nevada exchange because Truman/Queen obsidian is virtually absent west of the Sierra Nevada. The results of this study also indicate that models that emphasize mobility as the primary conditioner of lithic technology are also inadequate. First order determinants of technology are most likely subsistence related and based on the ability of a specific tool form to contribute to subsistence return rates by reducing resource handling time. Differential mobility likely contributes to technology in a lesser way, affecting decisions regarding degrees of processing, such as biface stage, primary and secondary reduction loci, but not ultimately tool form.

Prehistoric Obsidian Use On The Volcanic Tableland And Its Implications For Settlement Patterns And Technological Change In The Western Great Basin

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Author : Mark Alan Giambastiani
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004

Prehistoric Obsidian Use On The Volcanic Tableland And Its Implications For Settlement Patterns And Technological Change In The Western Great Basin written by Mark Alan Giambastiani and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Archaeology categories.

Perspectives On Prehistoric Trade And Exchange In California And The Great Basin

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Author : Richard E. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Release Date : 2012-03-13

Perspectives On Prehistoric Trade And Exchange In California And The Great Basin written by Richard E. Hughes and has been published by University of Utah Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-13 with History categories.

This volume investigates the circumstances and conditions under which trade/exchange, direct access, and/or mobility best account for material conveyance across varying distances at different times in the past.

Prehistoric Quarries And Terranes

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Author : Michael Joseph Shott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

Prehistoric Quarries And Terranes written by Michael Joseph Shott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Antiquities, Prehistoric categories.

"This project is Shott's report on the extensive analysis of a large sample of flake debris and products from the Modena and Tempiute obsidian quarries in eastern Nevada. Archaeologists dealing with the mass of quarry material will find useful information about analyses of reduction, flake assemblages and preform data that should be transferrable to other quarry sites globally. Shott sought to "1) devise and implement efficient but rigorous (i.e. probabilistic) sample designs for spatially extensive, abundant quarry deposits; and 2) to test a behavioral-ecology model of the staging of resource use, the field-processing model (FPM)." However, data collection and initial analysis also required additional analyses be undertaken to appropriately address research questions. As a result, this manuscript details a "diverse and comprehensive set of methods to a large, systematically acquired dataset." It supports the conclusion that the Modena quarry was used by small groups though time"--

Prehistoric Quarries And Terranes

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Author : Michael Joseph Shott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021

California Prehistory

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Author : Terry L. Jones
language : en
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Release Date : 2007

California Prehistory written by Terry L. Jones and has been published by Rowman Altamira this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.

Reader of original synthesizing articles for introductory courses on archaeology and native peoples of California.

Inyo National Forest N F Commercial Pack Station And Pack Stock Outfitter Guide Permit Issuance

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Inyo National Forest N F Commercial Pack Station And Pack Stock Outfitter Guide Permit Issuance written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with categories.

Late Prehistoric Territorial Expansion And Maintenance In The South Central Sierra Nevada California

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Author : Christopher Thomas Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

Late Prehistoric Territorial Expansion And Maintenance In The South Central Sierra Nevada California written by Christopher Thomas Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Mono Indians categories.

"While logistically organized and sedentary hunter-gatherers have been characterized as more efficient resource exploiters with adaptive advantages over simpler, mobile foragers, the mobile Western Mono successfully migrated to the western slope of the south-central Sierra Nevada, California, outcompeting and displacing more sedentary groups some 600 years ago. They did so during a shift from benign, warm, and dry to marginal, cold, and wet environmental conditions. Assuming that settlement and subsistence behaviors are adaptive mechanisms that confer advantages (and disadvantages) to groups competing to occupy territory, this research focuses on reconstructing Western Mono settlement, transport, and storage behaviors in light of patchy montane resource distributions resulting from late Holocene climate change. This theoretical approach directs analysis towards reconstructing competitive hunter-gatherer subsistence behaviors during a period where when resources were particularly patchy with regard to time, space, and elevation. Such behaviors were those that best averaged temporal and spatial variability in resource availability. For the Mono, these behaviors were seasonal residential mobility and acorn transport and caching. Residential mobility effectively averaged resource base variability by bringing consumers to resources during peak environmental productivity. Transport of acorn to winter hamlets and high elevations was important to this strategy, bringing resources to consumers in winter and reducing uncertainty when entering resource-poor environments in summer. Dispersed and expedient acorn caching offset the temporal variability of resource availability. Acorn caches are distributed in efficient and risk-reducing logistical foraging radii that effectively provisioned lowland winter settlements. Caches not only sustained winter populations, but also facilitated spring and summer moves by providing reliable food stores near highland spring and summer camps. Combined, Mono transport, mobility, and storage effectively averaged pronounced spatial and temporal variance in the environment's production of key resources during the late Holocene neoglacial, behaviors ultimately leading to their successful migration and territorial maintenance. These findings ultimately imply that when hunter-gatherers compete; to occupy territory, behaviors thought of as simple, such as residential mobility and expedient technology, can confer competitive advantages to their practitioners and that the success or failure of competing behaviors is intrinsically linked to the ecological contexts in which they occur."--Abstract

Obsidian Studies In The Great Basin

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Author : Richard Edward Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

Obsidian Studies In The Great Basin written by Richard Edward Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.

Obsidian Projectile Point Conveyance Patterns In The Lower Humboldt Valley Nevada

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Author : Richard Edward Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022

Obsidian Projectile Point Conveyance Patterns In The Lower Humboldt Valley Nevada written by Richard Edward Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Archaeological dating categories.

Despite their ubiquity, surface occurrences of obsidian artifacts at archaeological sites throughout western North America have traditionally been viewed as unworthy of serious attention because of the difficulty in dating them. In the past 40 years, the time sensitivity of certain Great Basin projectile point types has been established, which brings the importance of surface collections more center stage. With the coming of age and refinement of geochemical methods, obsidian artifacts from these surface sites can now be analyzed using nondestructive instrumental methods and matched to their geological eruptive origin on the basis of congruence in trace and rare earth element chemistry. Many of these surface assemblages in the Great Basin contain considerable numbers of obsidian projectile points that, when matched to their chemical source of origin, open up entirely new ways to investigate change and continuity in past land use and social relations. The present study was conducted in the lower Humboldt Valley of western Nevada, where large numbers of obsidian projectile points have been collected by professional archaeologists over the past century and housed in academic institutions and museums. In this study, more than 900 obsidian projectile points and bifaces were analyzed from 24 sites and localities within the lower Humboldt Valley using energy-dispersive X-ray fluorescence (EDXRF) to bring data to bear on the question of whether changes in obsidian source use occurred there over the past 5000 years (as determined by time-sensitive projectile points). Significant changes were identified in the direction and distance-to-source of arrow points vs. dart points, and in the source and direction of Humboldt series points and of Humboldt Basal-notched bifaces, which implicate directional shifts through time in social relations among peoples using--and during some periods living at sites in--the lower Humboldt Valley. These results provide independent data to evaluate current views about land use, artifact conveyance, social relations, and technological change in the western Great Basin and beyond--

Prehistoric Obsidian Quarry Use And Technological Change In The Western Great Basin

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