Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary

Kristen A. Carlson, Leland C. Bement, Kristen A. Carlson, Leland C. Bement

• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781646422258
• eBook ISBN: 9781646422265
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Archaeological research on the late Pleistocene and early Holocene periods has tended to focus on rock shelters, caves, large game kills, and occasionally butchery sites. Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary examines a diverse range of open-air sites—bounded both naturally and culturally—in Siberia and Germany and throughout North America.
 
Open-air sites are difficult for researchers to locate and, because of depositional processes, often more difficult to interpret; they contain many superimposed events but often show evidence of only the most recent. Working to overcome the limitations of data and poor preservation, using decades of prior research and new analytical tools, and diverging from a one-size-fits-all mode of interpretation, the contributors to this volume offer fresh insight into the formation and taphonomy of open-air sites.
 
Contributors: Douglas B. Bamforth, Ian Buvit, Brian J. Carter, Robin Cordero, Robert Dello-Russo, George C. Frison, Kelly E. Graf, Bruce B. Huckell, Michael A. Jochim, Joshua D. Kapp, Robert L. Kelly, Aleksander V. Konstantinov, Banks Leonard, Madeline E. Mackie, Christopher W. Merriman, Matthew J. O'Brien, Spencer Pelton, Neil N. Puckett, Beth Shapiro, Todd A. Surovell, Karisa Terry, Steve Teteak, Robert Yohe
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Functional and Organizational Variation among Paleolithic and Mesolithic Sites in Southwestern Germany
• 3. Organization of Living Space at Late Pleistocene Campsites of the Studenoe Site, Transbaikal Region, Siberia
• 4. Understanding Space at Owl Ridge, Central Alaska: Identifying Activities and Camp Use
• 5. Spatial Analysis of a Clovis Hearth-Centered Activity Area at the La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming
• 6. Analytical and Interpretive Challenges Posed by Late Paleoindian Activity Areas at the Water Canyon Site, West-Central New Mexico
• 7. Boca Negra Wash: Investigating Activity Organization at a Shallowly Buried Folsom Camp in the Middle Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico
• 8. The Late Paleoindian Occupation at the Bull Creek Site: Comparing and Contrasting Seasonal Site Structure and Resource Procurement Strategies
• 9. Where Are the Activity Areas?: An Example at the Allen Site
• Index
• List of Contributors