The Carter/Kerr-McGee Paleoindian Site: Cultural Resource Management and Archaeological Research

1984 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
George C. Frison
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Powder River Basin ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Archaeological Survey ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Large Animals

A decade of intensive archaeological survey of the Powder River Basin in Wyoming has revealed one stratified Paleoindian site along with several thousand sites of later age. This site is only a remnant of a much larger one. It has four cultural levels that include Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin-Hell Gap, and Alberta-Cody respectively, with intervening sterile deposits. The site location and the taphonomics of the bone bed in the Alberta-Cody level suggest that the site was associated with the procurement of large animals. Interdisciplinary investigation of the site indicates that past geologic activity is largely responsible for the scarcity of Paleoindian sites in the basin. The history and basic philosophy of cultural resource management in this area are reviewed. Currently, land ownership is divided between federal and state agencies and private operators, such that the surface may be privately owned while the subsurface is federally owned. The argument is made for a future cultural resource management program for the Powder River Basin that is strongly oriented toward research in contrast to the present policy of inventory and avoidance of archaeological sites.

scholarly journals The Ear Spool Site (41TT653): A mid-15th to early 17th Century A.D. Caddo site in the Sulphur River Basin, Titus County, Texas

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
River Basin ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
East Texas ◽  
White Oak ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Residential Structures ◽  
Small Tributary

The Ear Spool site (41TT653) is a rather unique ancestral Caddo Settlement in the East Texas Pineywoods. More specifically, it is situated along a small tributary to East Piney Creek, itself a northward flowing tributart to White Oak Creek in the Sulphyr River Basin. What makes the site unique is its diverse architectural charter as seen in the archaeological evidence of four buildings in two different Late Caddo period, Titus phase occupations, separated by as much as 2-3 generations, from the mid- 15th to early 17th century A.D. In, particular, it is the construction of two specialized structures in the earlier Caddo occupation in shallow pits that is most notable, along with evidence of marker posts in two different intra-site contexts. Both of these structures were deliberately destroyed by burning and burial with sediments. The later structures were larger circular residential structures, one of which was deliberately burned down, but not covered with any sediments. Galan and Perttula and Sherman has discussed the archaeological investigations of the Ear Spool site in detail, characterizing the site's archaeological features and findings. However, these publications are very limited in distribution, basically being limited to Cultural Resource Management archaeologist working in Texas, but I believe that the findings from the Ear Spool site warrant broader consideration because of its distinctive and dual scared and secular nature.

Stock raising and winter sheep camps in south-central Wyoming (1880–1957): An ethnoarchaeological example

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-77
Author(s):  
Mark E Miller
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Sheep Industry ◽  
Site Type ◽  
South Central ◽  
Topographic Attributes ◽  
Testable Model

Winter sheep camp locations on one ranch in south-central Wyoming are strongly influenced by particular landscape and topographic attributes. A patterned distribution of camps is suggested from both archaeological and ethnohistoric evidence. Sheep camps are one of the most ubiquitous archaeological sites in the region and offer valuable insights into the transhumant settlement pattern of the nineteenth and early twentieth century sheep industry. Our knowledge of this site type owes much to the growth of Cultural Resource Management over the last 40 years. The present study incorporates both participant interviews and Cultural Resource Management archaeology to offer a testable model for site location and content on sheep range in Carbon County, Wyoming.

Significance and Other Frustrations in the CRM Process

1987 ◽  
Vol 52 (4) ◽  
pp. 820-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
William B. Butler
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Research Design ◽  
Predictive Modeling ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
Federal Agencies ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Management Process ◽  
National Register ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Collection Strategies

National Register of Historic Places criterion (d) for significance is based solely on the theoretical and substantive knowledge of the discipline. Archaeologists continue to misuse and abuse the term and do not understand its meaning in terms of the cultural resource management process. In so doing, archaeologists often place federal agencies and state historic preservation offices in a quandary as to proper management decisions. Misuse of the concept of significance in the formulation of a research design may seriously jeopardize or curtail making important contributions to the discipline. In addition, the failure to understand the concept of significance may not provide the basis for rational decisions concerning data redundancy, collection strategies, predictive modeling, and mitigation. Problems are compounded when archaeologists employed by federal and state agencies do not understand significance and the cultural resource management process.

Assembling Archaeology

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Cobb ◽  
Karina Croucher
Keyword(s):  
Resource Management ◽  
Undergraduate Student ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Cultural Resource Management ◽  
First Century ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
Material Turn ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Perspective

This book provides a radical rethinking of the relationships between teaching, researching, digging, and practicing as an archaeologist in the twenty-first century. The issues addressed here are global and are applicable wherever archaeology is taught, practiced, and researched. In short, this book is applicable to everyone from academia to cultural resource management (CRM), from heritage professional to undergraduate student. At its heart, it addresses the undervaluation of teaching, demonstrating that this affects the fundamentals of contemporary archaeological practice, and is particularly connected to the lack of diversity in disciplinary demographics. It proposes a solution which is grounded in a theoretical rethinking of our teaching, training, and practice. Drawing upon the insights from archaeology’s current material turn, and particularly Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of assemblages, this volume turns the discipline of archaeology into the subject of investigation, considering the relationships between teaching, practice, and research. It offers a new perspective which prompts a rethinking of our expectations and values with regard to teaching, training, and doing archaeology, and ultimately argues that we are all constantly becoming archaeologists.

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