The terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene record in the northwestern Great Basin: what we know, what we don't know, and how we may be wrong

GM Smith, P Barker - PaleoAmerica, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Great Basin has traditionally not featured prominently in discussions of how
and when the New World was colonized; however, in recent years work at Oregon's Paisley …

The “fishing link”: Salmonids and the initial peopling of the Americas

MQ Sutton - PaleoAmerica, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Archaeological evidence of the use of anadromous salmonids is widespread across
northeastern Asia, Beringia, and well into the northwestern portion of North America. Here it …

Climate, environment, and humans in North America's Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900–11,600 calendar years ago

T Goebel, B Hockett, KD Adams, D Rhode… - Quaternary International, 2011 - Elsevier
Global climate change associated with the onset of the Younger Dryas chronozone affected
different regions of the northern hemisphere in different ways. In the Great Basin of western …

Late Pleistocene and early Holocene lake‐level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada: Implications for the distribution of archaeological sites

KD Adams, T Goebel, K Graf, GM Smith… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Great Basin of the western US contains a rich record of Late Pleistocene and
Holocene lake‐level fluctuations as well as an extensive record of human occupation during …

Late glacial through Early Holocene environments inferred using pollen from coprolites and sediments recovered from Paisley Caves, Oregon

CV Saban, EM Herring, DL Jenkins… - Quaternary Research, 2023 - cambridge.org
The Paisley Cave archeological site in the Northern Great Basin has provided a rich
archaeological record from 13,000 to 6000 cal yr BP, including abundant mammalian …

Chipped-Stone Crescents from the Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene of Far Western North America and the Transverse Projectile Point Hypothesis

DS Amick - Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 2024 - Springer
Crescents are a distinctive component of several terminal Pleistocene–early Holocene (TP–
EH) toolkits in the Far West, including the concave-based projectile point techno-complex …

Basketry, cordage, and perishable artifact manufacture at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter: Diachronic technological variation

MM Coe - Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2021 - Elsevier
As a technologically-complex material class, perishable artifacts have the potential to
address a multitude of socio-economic activities and behaviors; however, their application to …

Typha as a wetland food resource: evidence from the Tianluoshan site, Lower Yangtze Region, China

Y Zhang, B van Geel, WD Gosling, G Sun, L Qin… - Vegetation History and …, 2020 - Springer
Wetlands have been attractive environments for early communities worldwide. In China,
wetlands offered natural ecological settings for the start of rice cultivation in the Lower …

Language, culture, and identity

SR Schecter - The Routledge handbook of language and …, 2014 - api.taylorfrancis.com
This chapter focuses on the historical evolution and critical debates associated with
research in the area of language, culture, and identity, with special attention paid to the …

Late Pleistocene subsistence in the Great Basin: Younger Dryas-aged faunal remains from the botanical lens, Paisley Cave 2, Oregon

B Hockett, ME Adams, PM Lubinski, VL Butler… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Knowledge of Younger Dryas (ca. 12,900 to 11,600 cal. BP) settlement and subsistence
patterns in the Great Basin of western North America has become increasingly detailed over …