![]() ![]() Morgan's research often targets prehistoric cultural adaptations of people living in marginal environments, most recently groups in the high mountain ranges of North America and Argentina as well as on the Chinese Loess Plateau and Mongolian Steppe.ĭavid Harvey, PhD student, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. His work focuses on the human paleoecology of worldwide prehistoric foraging groups and how such groups evolved into more sedentary hunter-gatherer and early agricultural societies. Notes on contributorsĬhristopher Morgan is an assistant professor. Funding for this study was provided by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1302054), the National Geographic Society Waitt Grants Program, a John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Faculty Research Award from Brigham Young University's Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, and Utah State University's Office of the Provost. Any errors or omissions, however, are of course our own. We also thank Plains Anthropologist editor Marcel Kornfeld and two anonymous reviewers whose close reading of the draft of this article resulted in a much clearer and more focused argument. Archaeometrics and Northwest Research Obsidian Studies Laboratory performed the OH analyses. Gratitude is also extended to Tory and Meredith Taylor and to Heath and Sarah Woltman (of Bear Basin Outfitters). Thanks also to all the field school students who worked on the site in 2010, 20: your efforts and perseverance through oftentimes less-than-ideal field conditions are truly what made this research possible. GIS-based assessments of the costs of procuring the obsidian found at HRV suggests, however, that though economic considerations certainly played a principal role in determining obsidian conveyance decisions, other factors such as social or cultural dynamics may have conditioned the preference for Yellowstone sources over eastern Idaho sources, ultimately suggesting that social boundaries played a role in generating the different toolstone conveyance zones seen in the region during the Late Prehistoric.įirst and foremost we thank Richard Adams and Ken Cannon for getting us involved with the site in the first place and Ashley Losey, Dayna Reale, Dallin Webb, Chris Davies, Matt Stirn, Bryon Schroeder and Molly Westby for all their volunteer help in the field. Source provenance determination made via X-ray fluorescence spectrometry indicates that most of the obsidian at the site originated in Jackson Hole and secondarily is from Yellowstone Plateau sources, suggesting a Late Prehistoric residentially-mobile, seasonal, and elevationally transhumant settlement system focused on the Jackson Hole area. Based on AMS, projectile point, and obsidian hydration data, the site's lodges appear to have been occupied on a sporadic basis mainly between 2,300 and 850 cal BP. Sampling 16 of 52 house features at High Rise Village (HRV 48FR5891), a large residential locus at 3,273 m (10,720 ft) elevation in Wyoming's Wind River Range produced 25 AMS dates, 23 diagnostic projectile points, 148 obsidian artifacts (mostly retouch debris) as well as abundant chert debitage, small quantities of faunal bone, and groundstone milling equipment.
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