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A Quantitative Analysis of Promontory Cave 1: An Archaeological Study on Population Size, Occupation Span, Artifact Use-life, and Accumulation
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Promontory Cave 1 on Great Salt Lake, Utah exhibits an incredible level of preservation rarely seen at archaeological sites. The high proportion of perishable materials provides a unique opportunity to study cultural remains that are usually lost to taphonomic processes. Extensive radiocarbon...
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Fall 2020
Recent analyses of the Promontory caves assemblages by Ives and colleagues (Billinger and Ives 2015; Hallson 2017; Ives 2014, 2020; Ives et al. 2014; Johansson 2013; Lakevold 2017, in press; Reilly 2015; Rhode, in press; Yanicki 2019, in press; Yanicki and Ives 2017) have renewed interest in...
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Breathing New Life into Old Records: Analysis of the Muhlbach and Stelzer sites on the Northern Plains
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In the early to mid-1960s, two important excavations of major Besant archaeological sites were carried out on the northern Plains. In Alberta, Ruth Gruhn uncovered the Muhlbach site beneath a farmer’s yard, revealing a large bison kill site with a lithic assemblage dominated by Knife River Flint...
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Examining the First Uses of Pottery by Northern Great Plains Peoples During the Time of Besant and Sonota
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Highly successful pedestrian era communal bison hunters of the Besant and Sonota archaeological phases were the first to use pottery on the northern Great Plains. While the Besant phase is widely distributed across this region, the Sonota phase is confined to North and South Dakota. The Sonota...
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Spring 2019
In the mid-13th century AD, small bands of people affiliated with the archaeologically known Promontory Culture and Fremont Complex resided in close geographic proximity on the west side of Promontory Point, Utah. The timing of this co-residence corresponds with significant changes that were...
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Fall 2017
Promontory Cave 1, located on the north shore of Great Salt Lake in northern Utah, has yielded many extraordinary archaeological artifacts that are amazingly well-preserved. Promontory phase deposits in Cave 1 are extremely thick, and rich with perishables and other material culture. Bison bones,...
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The Late Holocene White River Ash East Eruption and Pre-contact Culture Change in Northwest North America
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The White River Ash East eruption of A.D. 846-848 blanketed portions of Subarctic Yukon and Northwest Territories, Canada in volcanic ash. This dissertation examines impacts of the eruption on pre-contact hunter-gatherer social relationships. The main bodies of data on which interpretations are...
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Fall 2015
This dissertation synthesizes theoretical developments in linguistics and anthropology in order to tackle questions in lexical semantics and Athapaskan historical linguistics. This dissertation aims at contributing both to theoretical development of diachronic lexical semantics and to provide...