ISSN:
0065-9452
Language:
English
Pages:
216 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 103
Keywords:
USA Nevada
;
Archäologie
;
Prähistorie, NA
Abstract:
Unique among Great Basin archaeological studies, this volume presents the results of a massive excavation program directed at five open-air sites. These sites are clustered adjacent to several springs of uncertain reliability, bound to the north by the lifeless expanse of the Black Rock playa, and to the south by dune fields, alluvial fans, and barren hills marginal by even Great Basin standards.Within this forbidding landscape, Native peoples somehow eked out a living at various times during the Holocene, tied to the vicissitudes of climate change. Full-blown residential activity springs to life during wet periods, only to be eclipsed by the next drought cycle. This dynamic archaeological record provides not only insight into the adaptive responses associated with environmental instability, but also commentary on a host of other research themes, including the rise of residential stability and logistical hunting, toolstone use and conveyance, shifts in domestic and habitation patterns, resource intensification, as well as a surprising reorganization of settlement strategy during the final period of prehistoric occupation. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Abstract -- Introduction -- Environmental Context. Modern Climate. Modern Fauna and Flora. Environments of the Latest Pleistocene and Holocene -- Cultural Context. Prehistoric Context. Ethnographic Context. Field and Laboratory Methods. Laboratory and Analytical Methods -- Chronological Controls. Projectile Points. Shell Beads. Glass, Stone, and Bone Beads. Radiocarbon. Building Spatio-temporal Components -- 26HU1830 Site Report -- 26HU1876 Site Report -- 26HU2871 Site Report -- 26HU3118 Site Report -- 26HU5621 Site Report -- Summary and Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References
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