George T Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 138794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George T Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | George T |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES G T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hamilton College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 592 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Clovis Record in the Far West
Cultural Transmission and the Interaction of Two Cultural Traditions in the Far West
What’s Not Clovis? An Examination of Fluted Points in the Far West
Within thirty years of the 1927 Folsom discovery, post-Clovis fluted point types were being described in all regions North America except the Far West, where “if it’s not Folsom, it’s Clovis” remained the norm. This was largely because of the existence of a different technology, the Western Stemmed Tradition, then believed to have derived from Clovis. Only in the last twenty years has there been any discussion of the possibility of a non-Clovis f…
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin
A Case of Extinction in PaleoindianArchaeology
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Empirical study of the effect of count time on the precision and accuracy of pXRF data
Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves
They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223 ) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dat…
Clovis and Western Stemmed again
Fiedel and Morrow challenge our argument that Clovis technology originated in the southern Plains or Southeast and from there was carried by populations migrating north. Upon entering the Intermountain West relatively late, they encountered a population utilizing a different technology (Western Stemmed), the latter having arrived independently from the Pacific coast. Fiedel and Morrow offer arguments in favor of Clovis-first in the Intermountain …
Reconsidering Paleoarchaic Mobility in the Central Great Basin
Analyzing technological patterns and source provenance of stone tools, Jones, Beck, Jones, and Hughes (2003) argue that Paleoarchuic groups of the central Great Basin moved within an extensive home range, perhaps reaching 400 km in its longest dimension. The Eastern Conveyance Zone, as they refer to this territory, was aligned with the predominantly north-south trending mountains and valleys of the province. To evaluate this model of mobility, ar…
PXRF
Clovis and Western Stemmed
The Intermountain West is rarely included in discussions of the North American Paleoindian record, largely because there is so little evidence for Clovis in that region. What has been ignored in these discussions is the presence of an early record in the region associated not with Clovis, but with a different technology, the main diagnostic of which is the large, contracting stemmed projectile point. Dates associated with this technology are comp…
Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin
Paleoarchaic (11.5-8.0 ka) occupants of the Great Basin encountered numerous lithic sources as they moved across foraging territories. Source provenance and lithic technologic analyses applied to the tools manufactured from these source materials elucidate several aspects of mobility, including the geographic scale of material conveyance and extent and possible routes of population movement. This research indicates that central Great Basin groups…
Rocks are heavy
Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change at the Sunshine Locality, North-Central Nevada, U.S.A.
Sedimentological, faunal, and archaeological investigations at the Sunshine Locality, Long Valley, Nevada reveal a history of human adaptation and environmental change at the last glacial–interglacial transition in North America's north-central Great Basin. The locality contains a suite of lacustrine, alluvial, and eolian deposits associated with fluvially reworked faunal remains and Paleoindian artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated stratigraphy indicates…
Source Provenance of Andesite Artefacts Using Non-Destructive XRF Analysis
The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
Explaining the Change from Biface to Flake Technology
On-Site Artifact Analysis as an Alternative to Collection
Artifact collection has become increasingly expensive, especially with respect to curation costs. Consequently, many government agencies as well as researchers have turned to an alternative, 'on-site' analysis approach in which many analytical procedures usually reserved for the laboratory are conducted in the field. Using data gathered at an andesite quarry in eastern Nevada, we evaluate such an approach in terms of feasibility, reliability of r…
Quantifying Archaeology
The Archaeology of Regions
Toolstone Selection and Lithic Technology in Early Great Basin Prehistory
Although research concerning late Pleistocene/early Holocene populations in the Great Basin of western North America has been ongoing for many years, little is known concerning the adaptive strategies practiced by these people, whose culture is widely known as the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition. Work has tended to focus on cultural and temporal similarities rather than on functional variability. In order to shift the focus of this research, ques…
Qualifying Diversity in Archaeology
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Bias and Archaeological Classification
Archaeologists increasingly have become aware of the effects of bias and have made strides to identify and correct for error introduced in such areas as sampling and recovery techniques. Much less attention has been paid to the significance of bias introduced during artifact analysis. The potential for analyst-induced error is discussed in terms of: (1) the explicitness of class definitions, (2) differences in perception among analysts, and (3) c…
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin
Paleoarchaic (11.5-8.0 ka) occupants of the Great Basin encountered numerous lithic sources as they moved across foraging territories. Source provenance and lithic technologic analyses applied to the tools manufactured from these source materials elucidate several aspects of mobility, including the geographic scale of material conveyance and extent and possible routes of population movement. This research indicates that central Great Basin groups…
Clovis and Western Stemmed
The Intermountain West is rarely included in discussions of the North American Paleoindian record, largely because there is so little evidence for Clovis in that region. What has been ignored in these discussions is the presence of an early record in the region associated not with Clovis, but with a different technology, the main diagnostic of which is the large, contracting stemmed projectile point. Dates associated with this technology are comp…
The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Toolstone Selection and Lithic Technology in Early Great Basin Prehistory
Although research concerning late Pleistocene/early Holocene populations in the Great Basin of western North America has been ongoing for many years, little is known concerning the adaptive strategies practiced by these people, whose culture is widely known as the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition. Work has tended to focus on cultural and temporal similarities rather than on functional variability. In order to shift the focus of this research, ques…
PXRF
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Reconsidering Paleoarchaic Mobility in the Central Great Basin
Analyzing technological patterns and source provenance of stone tools, Jones, Beck, Jones, and Hughes (2003) argue that Paleoarchuic groups of the central Great Basin moved within an extensive home range, perhaps reaching 400 km in its longest dimension. The Eastern Conveyance Zone, as they refer to this territory, was aligned with the predominantly north-south trending mountains and valleys of the province. To evaluate this model of mobility, ar…
Source Provenance of Andesite Artefacts Using Non-Destructive XRF Analysis
Bias and Archaeological Classification
Archaeologists increasingly have become aware of the effects of bias and have made strides to identify and correct for error introduced in such areas as sampling and recovery techniques. Much less attention has been paid to the significance of bias introduced during artifact analysis. The potential for analyst-induced error is discussed in terms of: (1) the explicitness of class definitions, (2) differences in perception among analysts, and (3) c…
Empirical study of the effect of count time on the precision and accuracy of pXRF data
On-Site Artifact Analysis as an Alternative to Collection
Artifact collection has become increasingly expensive, especially with respect to curation costs. Consequently, many government agencies as well as researchers have turned to an alternative, 'on-site' analysis approach in which many analytical procedures usually reserved for the laboratory are conducted in the field. Using data gathered at an andesite quarry in eastern Nevada, we evaluate such an approach in terms of feasibility, reliability of r…
Clovis and Western Stemmed again
Fiedel and Morrow challenge our argument that Clovis technology originated in the southern Plains or Southeast and from there was carried by populations migrating north. Upon entering the Intermountain West relatively late, they encountered a population utilizing a different technology (Western Stemmed), the latter having arrived independently from the Pacific coast. Fiedel and Morrow offer arguments in favor of Clovis-first in the Intermountain …
Elements of an inclusive evolutionary model for archaeology
Diversity, Organization, and Behavior in the Material Record
Bias and Archaeological Classification
Archaeologists increasingly have become aware of the effects of bias and have made strides to identify and correct for error introduced in such areas as sampling and recovery techniques. Much less attention has been paid to the significance of bias introduced during artifact analysis. The potential for analyst-induced error is discussed in terms of: (1) the explicitness of class definitions, (2) differences in perception among analysts, and (3) c…
Toolstone Selection and Lithic Technology in Early Great Basin Prehistory
Although research concerning late Pleistocene/early Holocene populations in the Great Basin of western North America has been ongoing for many years, little is known concerning the adaptive strategies practiced by these people, whose culture is widely known as the Western Pluvial Lakes Tradition. Work has tended to focus on cultural and temporal similarities rather than on functional variability. In order to shift the focus of this research, ques…
Qualifying Diversity in Archaeology
Quantifying Archaeology
The Archaeology of Regions
On-Site Artifact Analysis as an Alternative to Collection
Artifact collection has become increasingly expensive, especially with respect to curation costs. Consequently, many government agencies as well as researchers have turned to an alternative, 'on-site' analysis approach in which many analytical procedures usually reserved for the laboratory are conducted in the field. Using data gathered at an andesite quarry in eastern Nevada, we evaluate such an approach in terms of feasibility, reliability of r…
Explaining the Change from Biface to Flake Technology
Source Provenance of Andesite Artefacts Using Non-Destructive XRF Analysis
The Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene archaeology of the Great Basin
Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Change at the Sunshine Locality, North-Central Nevada, U.S.A.
Sedimentological, faunal, and archaeological investigations at the Sunshine Locality, Long Valley, Nevada reveal a history of human adaptation and environmental change at the last glacial–interglacial transition in North America's north-central Great Basin. The locality contains a suite of lacustrine, alluvial, and eolian deposits associated with fluvially reworked faunal remains and Paleoindian artifacts. Radiocarbon-dated stratigraphy indicates…
Rocks are heavy
Lithic Source Use and Paleoarchaic Foraging Territories in the Great Basin
Paleoarchaic (11.5-8.0 ka) occupants of the Great Basin encountered numerous lithic sources as they moved across foraging territories. Source provenance and lithic technologic analyses applied to the tools manufactured from these source materials elucidate several aspects of mobility, including the geographic scale of material conveyance and extent and possible routes of population movement. This research indicates that central Great Basin groups…
Clovis and Western Stemmed
The Intermountain West is rarely included in discussions of the North American Paleoindian record, largely because there is so little evidence for Clovis in that region. What has been ignored in these discussions is the presence of an early record in the region associated not with Clovis, but with a different technology, the main diagnostic of which is the large, contracting stemmed projectile point. Dates associated with this technology are comp…
PXRF
Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves
They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223 ) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dat…
Clovis and Western Stemmed again
Fiedel and Morrow challenge our argument that Clovis technology originated in the southern Plains or Southeast and from there was carried by populations migrating north. Upon entering the Intermountain West relatively late, they encountered a population utilizing a different technology (Western Stemmed), the latter having arrived independently from the Pacific coast. Fiedel and Morrow offer arguments in favor of Clovis-first in the Intermountain …
Reconsidering Paleoarchaic Mobility in the Central Great Basin
Analyzing technological patterns and source provenance of stone tools, Jones, Beck, Jones, and Hughes (2003) argue that Paleoarchuic groups of the central Great Basin moved within an extensive home range, perhaps reaching 400 km in its longest dimension. The Eastern Conveyance Zone, as they refer to this territory, was aligned with the predominantly north-south trending mountains and valleys of the province. To evaluate this model of mobility, ar…
A Case of Extinction in PaleoindianArchaeology
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Empirical study of the effect of count time on the precision and accuracy of pXRF data
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin
What’s Not Clovis? An Examination of Fluted Points in the Far West
Within thirty years of the 1927 Folsom discovery, post-Clovis fluted point types were being described in all regions North America except the Far West, where “if it’s not Folsom, it’s Clovis” remained the norm. This was largely because of the existence of a different technology, the Western Stemmed Tradition, then believed to have derived from Clovis. Only in the last twenty years has there been any discussion of the possibility of a non-Clovis f…
The Clovis Record in the Far West
Cultural Transmission and the Interaction of Two Cultural Traditions in the Far West
Archaeology (18 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Geography (16 works) · Geology (12 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (12 works) · History (10 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Structural basin (8 works) · Geology (7 works)