Integrating geochemistry and micromorphology to interpret feature use at Dust Cave, a Paleo-Indian through middle-archaic site in Northwest Alabama

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara K. Homsey ◽  
Rosemary C. Capo
Keyword(s):  
Middle Archaic ◽  
Dust Cave

DUST CAVE REVISITED: A BAYESIAN REANALYSIS OF THE RADIOCARBON RECORD

2017 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 168-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
David K. Thulman
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Bayesian Statistics ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Middle Archaic ◽  
Dust Cave ◽  
Cultural Components

The Dust Cave cultural chronology and radiocarbon sequence is one of the most important in southeastern North America. In their initial interpretation, the excavators were unable to separate the dates of the early and later strata in ways that facilitate their use for defining the associated cultural components. Here the sequence is reevaluated using Bayesian statistics, one additional date, and assessment of potential outliers. The results produce a useable sequence of non-overlapping cultural components (within the uncertainties of radiocarbon dating) that will improve our understanding the Paleoindian and Early and Middle Archaic cultural chronology in the Southeast.

EARLY AND MIDDLE ARCHAIC COMPLEXES

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-81
Keyword(s):  
Middle Archaic

Geoarchaeology and Bayesian Statistical Modeling of Radiocarbon Dates from 40CH171, a Multicomponent Shell-Bearing Site in Cheatham County, Tennessee

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-90
Author(s):  
D. Shane Miller ◽  
Thaddeus G. Bissett ◽  
Tanya M. Peres ◽  
David G. Anderson ◽  
Stephen B. Carmody ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Site Formation ◽  
State University ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Middle Tennessee State University ◽  
Blue Creek ◽  
Middle Archaic ◽  
Cumberland River ◽  
A Site ◽  
The University

Using multiple lines of evidence from 40CH171, including opportunistic sampling, geoarchaeology analysis, and Bayesian radiocarbon modeling, this chapter constructs a site formation process narrative based on fieldwork conducted from 2009 to 2010 by the University of Tennessee, Middle Tennessee State University, and the Tennessee Division of Archaeology. This chapter argues that the shell-bearing strata were deposited relatively close to an active channel of the Cumberland River and/or Blue Creek during the Middle Holocene (ca. 7170–6500 cal BP). This was followed by an abrupt shift to sandier sediments, indicating that deposition after the termination of the shell-bearing deposits at the Middle Archaic/Late Archaic boundary took place in the context of decreasing distance from the site to the Cumberland River and Blue Creek.

Paleoindian Zooarchaeology in Florida

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Rochelle A. Marrinan
Keyword(s):  
Dust Cave ◽  
Ground Sloth

This chapter deals with acquiring food, specifically the animal portion of the diet, in the Paleoindian Period. The authors discuss the historical roots of the sub-field in detail. Locations noted in the chapter include Florida’s Alexon Bison site, the Page-Ladson sites, and Alabama’s Dust Cave. For instance, the zooarchaeological reanalysis of the Jefferson’s ground sloth (Ohio), excavated at the same time as the Old Vero site (Florida), shows clear evidence of butchering.

Maintaining Relations with Deer

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher R. Moore ◽  
Richard W. Jefferies
Keyword(s):  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Southern Illinois ◽  
Green River ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
West Central ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Middle Archaic ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines the way deer were entangled in the everyday lives of Middle Archaic peoples. The authors first delve into hunter-gatherer ethnography, principally from northern hunting societies, and argue that hunting cultures are rarely extractive at their core. Rather, human-animal relations in hunting societies are better conceived as a meshwork of entanglements and mutual obligations. They also draw on the Middle Archaic archaeological record, focusing on the Black Earth site in southern Illinois and several Green River Archaic sites in west central Kentucky, to argue that white-tailed deer were extremely important to Middle Archaic hunters, not only as sources of food but also as social and spiritual creatures.

Correction: Watson Brake, a Middle Archaic Mound Complex in Northeast Louisiana

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (1) ◽  
pp. 208-208
Keyword(s):  
Middle Archaic

A Middle Archaic Burial from East Central Kansas

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 717-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Hoard ◽  
William E. Banks ◽  
Rolfe D. Mandel ◽  
Michael Finnegan ◽  
Jennifer E. Epperson
Keyword(s):  
Soil Horizon ◽  
Central Plains ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
East Central ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
The North ◽  
Wear Analysis ◽  
Use Wear ◽  
Middle Archaic

In late 2001, investigators excavated a solitary Middle Archaic burial from the Plains-Prairie border in east-central Kansas. The burial was contained in a dissected colluvial apron at the foot of the valley wall, in a soil horizon that began accumulating around 9000 B.P. Burial goods include deer bone, a drill, and a side-notched projectile point/knife, the morphology of which is consistent with side-notched Middle Archaic points of the North American Central Plains and Midwest. Use-wear analysis shows that the stone tools were used before being placed with the burial and were not manufactured specifically as burial goods. A radiocarbon assay of the deer bone in direct association with the burial yielded a radiocarbon age of 6160 ± 35 B.P. This is one of only a few burials older than 5,000 years in the region. Comparison of this burial to other coeval regional burials shows similarities in burial practices.

Interpretation of Prepared Clay Surfaces at Dust Cave, Alabama

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lara Homsey ◽  
Sarah Sherwood
Keyword(s):  
Dust Cave

The Palace site and the appearance of house basins in the Middle Archaic

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (239) ◽  
pp. 250-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
William E. Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Middle Archaic
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