Site Structure of the Orbit Inn
An Application of Ethnoarchaeology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2575479 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Steven R Simm (0000-0002-0624-1425, Utah State University, corresponding author), Steven R Simms, Kathleen M Heath (University of Utah) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 797-813 |
| Publication date | 1990-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/281251 |
| OpenAlex | W2327265845 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 44 |
| References cited | 16 |
One goal of ethnoarchaeology is to strengthen archaeological inferences about the past. A fifteenth-century hunter-gatherer, open site in Utah is used to examine ethnoarchaeological contributions toward determining the use of space, duration of occupation, assemblage composition, and site function. Comparisons between macrorefuse and microrefuse patterning suggest that (1) the distribution of macrorefuse can help identify locations of ephemeral structures and household activity areas; (2) the distribution of microrefuse in this intermittently occupied open site is useful for assessing assemblage composition; (3) determining the characteristics of macro- and microrefuse improves hypotheses about duration of occupation; and (4) interpretation of plant remains can be improved by considering site-formation processes. The study points to the need for a closer linkage between ethnoarchaeology and the archaeology of the past
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology) · Biology · Ephemeral key · Ethnoarchaeology · Geography · Linkage (software) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Ethical and environmental considerations for the application of Artificial Intelligence in archaeological research
Sampling Matters
Describing and comparing archaeological spatial structures
Modernizing Spatial Micro-Refuse Analysis
Beyond the identification of formation processes
Artifact size and spatial process
Quantifying microartifacts using a personal computer
It is the little things that count
Microartifacts
Soils, Sediments, and Geoarchaeology
Activity locales at Ohalo II, a 23,000-year-old submerged fisher-hunter-gatherers’ camp in the sea of Galilee, Israel, reconstructed through experimental archaeology and contextual taphonomy of broken bladelets
An ethnoarchaeological study of chemical residues in the floors and soils of Q'eqchi' Maya houses at Las Pozas, Guatemala
Studying Variability in the Archaeological Record
Martu ethnoarchaeology
Depositional histories of faunal remains from the Neolithic cultic site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel
Do faunal remains reflect socioeconomic status? An ethnoarchaeological study among Central African farmers in the northern Congo Basin
Microartefacts' weight estimation by Genetic Algorithm minimization
From Activity Areas to Occupational Histories
Doing Great Basin archaeology recently
Ethnoarchaeology needs a general theory of behavior
Identification and assessment of secondary refuse aggregates
Geological processes and site structure
Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility
The First Claim for Cannibalism in the Southwest
An Ethnoarchaeological Study on Anthropic Markers from a Shell-midden in Tierra del Fuego (Southern Argentina)
Macrodebitage Writ Small? Studying Stoneknapping with Experimental Archaeology, Dynamic Image Analysis, and Statistics
Studying lithic microdebitage with a dynamic image particle analyzer
Using Dynamic Image Analysis as a Method for Discerning Microdebitage from Natural Soils in Archaeological Soil Samples
Aboriginal plant use in the central Rocky Mountains
The High-Resolution Archaeology of Shared Courtyards at Old Dongola (14th–16th Century a.d., Sudan)
Floor Assemblages from Burned Structures at Aguateca, Guatemala
Scaling Up, Scaling Down
Lithic Deposits as Waste Management
Ceramic Ethnoarchaeology in Huáncito, Michoacán, Mexico
Tracking the emergence of an organized use of space
What do spatial data from Sibhudu tell us about life in the Middle Stone Age
Measuring spatial structure in time-averaged deposits insights from Roc de Marsal, France
Indoor/Outdoor Flint Knapping and Minute Debitage Remains
Identifying Pre-Dorset structural features on southern Baffin Island
A High Resolution Chronology for Steward's Promontory Culture Collections, Promontory Point, Utah
Site Structure and Activity Organization at a Late Paleoindian Base Camp in Western Nebraska
A Folsom Structure in the Colorado Mountains
Identifying Site Structure in the Archaeological Record
Microrefuse and Site Structure
Formation processes of the archaeological record
Where the garbage goes
Theoretical issues in the interpretation of microartifacts
The archaeological structure of a bedouin camp
Archaeological Approaches to the Present
Microdebitage analysis
Ethnoarchaeology among the Efe pygmies, Zaire
Identification of Cultural Site Formation Processes through Microdebitage Analysis
Microrefuse and Site Structure
Alyawara Site Structure and Its Archaeological Implications
Ancient Town and City Sites
Discard Location
Toward the Identification of Formation Processes
Dimensional Analysis of Behavior and Site Structure
On the 'Making' of an Assemblage of Stone Tools
| Unique citing works | 44 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 1990 - 2026 (37) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 43 |