Chronology of the Farmington Complex

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 334-341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric W. Ritter ◽  
Brian W. Hatoff ◽  
Louis A. Payen
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Central California ◽  
Explicit Definition ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene ◽  
Complex Locus ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Sierra Nevada Foothill

Recent geomorphic investigations in central California coupled with a re-evaluation of radiocarbon determinations from one Farmington complex locus provide a base for a more explicit definition of the age of this alleged Paleoindian manifestation. Flaked stone implements were apparently buried in gravels deposited during terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene times when channel filling occurred in the Sierra Nevada foothill drainages. The radiocarbon dates do not support the geologic interpretations. However, because of the charcoal"s stratigraphic context the dates are considered the product of later events.

New radiocarbon dates for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene settlements in West Turkana, northern Kenya

2017 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 208-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanuel Beyin ◽  
Mary E. Prendergast ◽  
Katherine M. Grillo ◽  
Hong Wang
Keyword(s):  
Early Holocene ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Northern Kenya ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

New Views on the Fremont: The Fremont and the Sevier: Defining Prehistoric Agriculturalists North of the Anasazi

1979 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 711-722 ◽  
Author(s):  
David B. Madsen
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Settlement Patterns ◽  
Colorado Plateau ◽  
Explicit Definition ◽  
Taxonomic Level ◽  
The North ◽  
Subsistence Economies ◽  
Definition Of

A satisfactory and explicit definition of the Fremont has not been produced in over 50 years of research—a failure which suggests that no comprehensive entity exists. Attempts to define a Fremont through the use of trait lists have failed, although such lists have provided the basis for three apparently conflicting theories of origin. Analyses of subsistence economies and settlement patterns suggest that no comprehensive entity exists and that all three origin theories may possibly be valid. A Sevier "culture," based on marsh collecting and supplemented by corn agriculture, can be defined in the eastern Great Basin. A Fremont "culture," based on corn agriculture and supplemented by hunting, can be defined on the Colorado Plateau. A third unnamed, but possibly Plains-related, culture may be defined to the north of these. These "cultures" are distinctive enough to be separated on the same taxonomic level as are the Anasazi and the Sinagua.

Near earthquakes in Central California*

1939 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 427-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Byerly
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Travel Time ◽  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Accurate Determination ◽  
Depth Of Focus ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
P Waves ◽  
Central California ◽  
The Waves

Summary Least-squares adjustments of observations of waves of the P groups at central and southern California stations are used to obtain the speeds of various waves. Only observations made to tenths of a second are used. It is assumed that the waves have a common velocity for all earthquakes. But the time intercepts of the travel-time curves are allowed to be different for different shocks. The speed of P̄ is found to be 5.61 km/sec.±0.05. The speed for S̄ (founded on fewer data) is 3.26 km/sec. ± 0.09. There are slight differences in the epicenters located by the use of P̄ and S̄ which may or may not be significant. It is suggested that P̄ and S̄ may be released from different foci. The speed of Pn, the wave in the top of the mantle, is 8.02 km/sec. ± 0.05. Intermediate P waves of speeds 6.72 km/sec. ± 0.02 and 7.24 km/sec. ± 0.04 are observed. Only the former has a time intercept which allows a consistent computation of structure when considered a layer wave. For the Berkeley earthquake of March 8, 1937, the accurate determination of depth of focus was possible. This enabled a determination of layering of the earth's crust. The result was about 9 km. of granite over 23 km. of a medium of speed 6.72 km/sec. Underneath these two layers is the mantle of speed 8.02 km/sec. The data from other shocks centering south of Berkeley would not fit this structure, but an assumption of the thickening of the granite southerly brought all into agreement. The earthquakes discussed show a lag of Pn as it passes under the Sierra Nevada. This has been observed before. A reconsideration of the Pn data of the Nevada earthquake of December 20, 1932, together with the data mentioned above, leads to the conclusion that the root of the mountain mass projects into the mantle beneath the surface layers by an amount between 6 and 41 km.

A Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Record and Fluted Point from Twain Harte, California

PaleoAmerica ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 260-275 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Moratto ◽  
Owen K. Davis ◽  
Shelly Davis-King ◽  
Jack Meyer ◽  
Jeffrey Rosenthal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Holocene ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

scholarly journals Earliest-known intentionally deformed human cranial fossil from Asia and the initiation of hereditary hierarchy in the early Holocene

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xijun Ni ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
Thomas A. Stidham ◽  
Yangheshan Yang ◽  
Qiang Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Northeastern China ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Population Increase ◽  
Complex Societies ◽  
Head Shape ◽  
Northeastern Asia ◽  
Radiocarbon Age ◽  
The World ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene

AbstractHereditary hierarchy is one of the major features of complex societies. Without a written record, prehistoric evidence for hereditary hierarchy is rare. Intentional cranial deformation (ICD) is a cross-generational cultural practice that embodies social identity and culture beliefs in adults through the behavior of altering infant head shape. Therefore, ICD is usually regarded as an archeological clue for the occurrence of hereditary hierarchy. With a calibrated radiocarbon age of 11245-11200 years BP, a fossil skull of an adult male displaying ICD discovered in Northeastern China is among the oldest-known ICD practices in the world. Along with the other earliest global occurrences of ICD, this discovery points to the early initiation of complex societies among the non-agricultural local societies in Northeastern Asia in the early Holocene. A population increase among previously more isolated terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene hunter-gatherer groups likely increased their interactions, possibly fueling the formation of the first complex societies.

Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae): the aspenicolens species group of the Californian clade

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4926 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-244
Author(s):  
ROBB BENNETT ◽  
CLAUDIA COPLEY ◽  
DARREN COPLEY
Keyword(s):  
Sierra Nevada ◽  
Species Group ◽  
Identification Key ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Kern County ◽  
East Central ◽  
Central California ◽  
Distribution Maps ◽  
Moist Forest ◽  
Species Groups

Species of North American Cybaeus L. Koch (Araneae: RTA clade: Cybaeidae) are common moist-forest spiders classified in Holarctic and Californian clades. Here, in the second paper in a planned series reviewing the six Californian clade species groups, we review the species of the aspenicolens group. We recognize five species in two subgroups: the aspenicolens subgroup (Cybaeus aspenicolens Chamberlin & Ivie, C. blasbes Chamberlin & Ivie, and C. coylei Bennett spec. nov.) and the fraxineus subgroup (C. fraxineus Bennett spec. nov. and C. thermydrinos Bennett). The species of the aspenicolens group have very restricted distributions on the western slopes of the central and southern Sierra Nevada mountain range from Tuolumne County south to northern Kern County in east central California, U.S.A. Descriptions, illustrations, distribution maps, and an identification key are provided for the five species as well as a discussion of conservation issues of relevance to the group. 

New excavations at the late Pleistocene site of Chinchihuapi I, Chile

2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom D. Dillehay ◽  
Carlos Ocampo ◽  
Jose Saavedra ◽  
Mario Pino ◽  
Linda Scott-Cummings ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Early Holocene ◽  
Occupied Site ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
South Central ◽  
Cool Temperate ◽  
Human Use ◽  
Monte Verde ◽  
Point Type

AbstractThis paper presents new excavation data on the Chinchihuapi I (CH-I) locality within the Monte Verde site complex, located along Chinchihuapi Creek in the cool, temperate Valdivian rain forest of south-central Chile. The 2017 and 2018 archaeological excavations carried out in this open-air locality reveal further that CH-I is an intermittently occupied site dating from the Early Holocene (~10,000 cal yr BP) to the late Pleistocene (at least ~14,500 cal yr BP) and probably earlier. A new series of radiocarbon dates refines the chronology of human use of the site during this period. In this paper, we describe the archaeological and stratigraphic contexts of the recent excavations and analyze the recovered artifact assemblages. A fragmented Monte Verde II point type on an exotic quartz newly recovered from excavations at CH-I indicates that this biface design existed in at least two areas of the wider site complex ~14,500 cal yr BP. In addition, associated with the early Holocene component at CH-I are later Paijan-like points recovered with lithic tools and debris and other materials. We discuss the geographic distribution of diagnostic artifacts from the site and their probable relationship to other early sites in South America.

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