{"title":"The Eagle Station impact site","authors":"K. Tankersley, Stephanie A. Meyers","doi":"10.1177/01976931231195111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231195111","url":null,"abstract":"The Eagle Station impact site is located along Eagle Creek in Carrol County, Kentucky. Pallasites (23 cm to ≤ 3 mm), a rare form of stony meteorites, occur in a late Archaic cultural period stratum with heat-altered flaked-stone artifacts, carbonized plant remains, and fire-cracked rocks. A calibrated AMS radiocarbon age of 3824 BP to 3593 BP (1875 BCE to 1644 BCE) on the pallasite-bearing stratum demonstrates that the impact event occurred during the late Holocene. The habitation site was abandoned after the impact event and the site was buried within 200 years by alluvium. The Eagle Station impact site increases our understanding of the frequency of late Holocene cosmic events and their possible influence on ancient cultures.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"25 1","pages":"103 - 114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73425459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: New Methods and Theories for Analyzing Mississippian Imagery by Bretton T Giles and Shawn P Lambert","authors":"Dawn M. Rutecki","doi":"10.1177/01976931231160198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231160198","url":null,"abstract":"This book provides a series of case studies that address multiple parts of Mississippian imagery analysis in the Southeast region of the United States. The editors begin with an introduction (Chapter 1) that highlights key aspects of historical trajectories within scholarly analysis, while distinguishing iconography from related fi elds and emphasizing critical discussions that have changed how iconographic analyses are methodo-logically and theoretically grounded. Organizationally, the volume is subsequently divided into three sections of interrelated aspects of iconography – design and style (Chapters 2-4), interpretation (Chapters 5-6)","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"64 1","pages":"176 - 179"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90377889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: Diversity in Open-Air Site Structure Across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary by Kristen A Carlson and Leland C Bement","authors":"E. Knell","doi":"10.1177/01976931231156949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931231156949","url":null,"abstract":"The eight chapters that comprise Diversity in Open-Air","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"602 1","pages":"115 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77360494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Tankersley, N. Dunning, D. Lentz, C. Carr, Liwi Grazioso, T. Hamilton, Kathryn Reese-Taylor
{"title":"Interpreting δ13C Values Obtained on SOM from Ancient Maya Reservoirs and Depressions","authors":"K. Tankersley, N. Dunning, D. Lentz, C. Carr, Liwi Grazioso, T. Hamilton, Kathryn Reese-Taylor","doi":"10.1177/01976931221146570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221146570","url":null,"abstract":"Elemental analyzer (EA) Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry was used to measure ∂13C values on soil organic matter from reservoirs and depressions at the ancient Maya urban centers of Tikal, Guatemala and Yaxnohcah, Mexico. Variation in δ13C values on soil organic matter were > −2.0‰, which suggests enrichment from C4 plants including maize, other tropical grasses (Poaceae), and tropical sedges (Cyperaceae), CAM plants (Clusia sp.), and cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). Cyanobacteria were likely a major contributor to the 13C enrichment of soil organic matter in Maya reservoirs and depressions, which has obfuscated our understanding of ancient Maya maize production. It is possible that the Maya used cyanobacteria as a fertilizer, which enriched agricultural field soil organic matter.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"11 1","pages":"123 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88375347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The meaning of imprecision: A reconsideration of marked colonoware in South Carolina","authors":"Christopher T Espenshade","doi":"10.1177/01976931221139315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221139315","url":null,"abstract":"A review of marked Colonoware recovered in South Carolina shows a very low level of precision. This lack of concern with aesthetics runs contrary to expectations for potters intent on placing important religious symbols, cosmograms, on their pots. This imprecision runs contrary to the high degree of precision evidenced in other Gullah-Geechee folk arts and crafts. It is suggested that many of the known, marked Colonoware vessels were incised or inscribed simply to identify the potter, the eventual owner, or the participant in a vessel-centered ritual.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"52 1","pages":"3 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90747565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The manufacture process of war clubs: Replicating indigenous technological systems of conflict from the Lower Colorado Basin","authors":"J. Curran","doi":"10.1177/01976931221133409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221133409","url":null,"abstract":"This study provides a multi-disciplinary framework operationalizing the study of weaponry through experimental archaeology. In this scenario, I focus on war clubs, a type of Indigenous weapon commonly found across North America. The goal of this study is to understand how these weapons were engineered for violent conflict. My methodology utilizes archival research, museum study, and experimental archaeology analyses to elaborate on features of design, manufacture, use, and tactics of war club technologies. To operationalize this framework, I focus on a case study of conflict technology in the Lower Colorado River Basin from 1540–1857. Despite war clubs being prolific and an integral part of the technological systems of conflict in this region, this is the initial in-depth material analysis of this weapon type. From this study we can begin to infer how and why weapons systems were chosen, designed, created, and used through the experiential and embodied process of making.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"1 1","pages":"21 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89223704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Tankersley, Stephanie A. Meyers, Shahad Mohammed Albalushi, Shaima Saif Salim Alhabsi, Paris Shea Bowers, Isabella L Burton, Austin Clay Matthew Loukinas, Samantha Leigh Ward, Sean Chaney
{"title":"The Eads earthwork: Implications for Hopewell ceremonialism","authors":"K. Tankersley, Stephanie A. Meyers, Shahad Mohammed Albalushi, Shaima Saif Salim Alhabsi, Paris Shea Bowers, Isabella L Burton, Austin Clay Matthew Loukinas, Samantha Leigh Ward, Sean Chaney","doi":"10.1177/01976931221128608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221128608","url":null,"abstract":"Eads (33Ct750) is a recently discovered Hopewell hilltop earthwork, which encloses ∼10 ha above the Bares Run-O’Bannon Creek-Little Miami River confluence area. Eads falls within the interquartile size range of other Ohio Hopewell earthworks. Like the nearby Foster's enclosure, Eads is a sub-meter earthwork with a single pronounced east-to-west berm, > 70.0 m in length and > 5.0 m in height. The peak of promontory aligns with the center of the Goodnough-Brock mound (33Ct751) at a compass direction of 300o, the summer solstice sunset azimuth for the Middle Woodland cultural period. The archeoastronomy alignment and artifacts recovered from a pedestrian survey and test excavations suggest that the Eads hilltop earthwork was designed, built, and used for ceremonial purposes.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"11 1","pages":"43 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78299124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phyllis S. Johnson, Markus Eberl, Rebecca Estrada Aguila, Charreau S. Bell, Jesse Spencer-Smith
{"title":"Using tiny artifacts to answer big questions: Machine learning, microdebitage, and household spaces at Tamarindito","authors":"Phyllis S. Johnson, Markus Eberl, Rebecca Estrada Aguila, Charreau S. Bell, Jesse Spencer-Smith","doi":"10.1177/01976931221121177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221121177","url":null,"abstract":"The spatial analysis of microdebitage (measuring less than 6.3 mm) can identify areas where stone tools were knapped at archaeological sites. These tiny artifacts tend to become embedded in the locations where they were first deposited and are less vulnerable to post-depositional movement, making microdebitage an important artifact class for identifying primary areas of stone tool production. Traditional microdebitage analysis, however, can take multiple hours spread over several days to complete. Because of this, microdebitage analysis is typically completed in very small areas of sites due to the intensive time and labor commitment required. Recently, however, my colleagues and I have developed a novel, interdisciplinary method that combines dynamic image analysis and machine learning to analyze microdebitage taken from soil samples at archaeological sites. Analyses of experimental microdebitage demonstrated that microdebitage could be accurately and efficiently identified within archaeological soil samples using this method. In the present study, we apply these methods to soil samples taken from the Maya Capital of Tamarindito in Guatemala to verify whether these methods remain accurate when applied to archaeological contexts.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"32 1","pages":"328 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78627235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review: People in a Sea of Grass: Archaeology’s Changing Perspective on Indigenous Plains Communities by Matthew E. Hill and Lauren W. Ritterbush","authors":"R. Hoard","doi":"10.1177/01976931221118597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221118597","url":null,"abstract":"More than just an overview of the archaeology of the Central Great Plains, People in a Sea of Grass provides summaries of the state of knowledge in the region while also presenting new data and ways of thinking that expand our knowledge of the past The editors and all of the authors are steeped in the archaeology of the Central Plains, and their expertise is apparent. The volume correctly honors the contributions of Dr Donna C. Roper, who organized a symposium at the 2008 Plains Anthropological Conference that examined Waldo R. Wedel’s contributions to the archaeology of the Great Plains and the direction archaeology in the region has taken since then. The symposium led to the beginnings of an edited volume, but Donna passed in 2015, before the project had traction.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"57 1","pages":"348 - 351"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90339184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Markus Eberl, Phyllis S. Johnson, Rebecca Estrada Aguila
{"title":"Studying lithic microdebitage with a dynamic image particle analyzer","authors":"Markus Eberl, Phyllis S. Johnson, Rebecca Estrada Aguila","doi":"10.1177/01976931221109301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01976931221109301","url":null,"abstract":"Lithic microdebitage has great archaeological potential to elucidate ancient stone tool production. So far, archaeologists have collected soil samples, separated them into size fractions, and analyzed them manually under a microscope to identify microdebitage. This time- and labor-intensive process has limited the number of samples and introduced intra- and inter-observer errors. Here, we discuss lithic microdebitage analysis with a dynamic image particle analyzer. This machine takes videos of soil particles as they fall from a chute. Software tracks them and measures their dimensions. Since sieving is no longer necessary, microdebitage analysis proceeds more quickly and processes samples within a few minutes. The standardized output allows the objective analysis of lithic microdebitage. We compare the angularity of c. 120,000 particles in an archaeological soil sample with experimental microdebitage. While the distributions show intriguing overlaps, we conclude that the most angular archaeological particles are not microdebitage but reflect a software glitch.","PeriodicalId":43677,"journal":{"name":"NORTH AMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGIST","volume":"29 1","pages":"312 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87627681","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}