Sarah C Sherwood
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 126824 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sarah C Sherwood |
| NOMBRES | Sarah C |
| APELLIDO | Sherwood |
| FIRMA | SHERWOOD S C |
| AFILIACIONES | Sewanee: The University of the South |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 187 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1995 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Special issue
Emplacement and path dependence in the American Midsouth
New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry
A Road to Zacatecas
From 1565 to 1570, Spain established no fewer than three networks of presidios (fortified military settlements) across portions of its frontier territories in La Florida and New Spain. Juan Pardo's network of six forts, extending from the Atlantic coast over the Appalachian Mountains, was the least successful of these presidio systems, lasting only from late 1566 to early 1568. The failure of Pardo's defensive network has long been attributed to …
Mound builders and monument makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600
Mound builders and monument makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600." Southeastern Archaeology, 37(2), pp. 165–166
Look to the earth
Soapstone Vessel Chronology and Function in the Southern Appalachians of Eastern Tennessee
The function and chronology of soapstone vessels in the Eastern Woodlands has been a contentious issue that deserves discussion at a more regional and subregional scale. We provide an overview of the Apple Barn site (40BT90) soapstone vessel assemblage, one of the largest Late Archaic/ Early Woodland collections in the southern Appalachians. Results from residue analysis of pollen, starch, and phytoliths on four vessel fragments reveal the proces…
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA
Systematic field exploration in Tennessee has located a wealth of new rock art-some deep in caves, some in the open air. The authors show that these have a different repertoire and use of colour, and a different distribution in the landscape-the open sites up high and the caves down low. The landscape has been reorganised on cosmological terms by the pre-Columbian societies. This research offers an exemplary rationale for reading rock art beyond …
An Integrated Geoarchaeology of a Late Woodland Sand Mound
The Graveline Mound (22JA503) is a sand platform mound in Jackson County, Mississippi, built on a low, late Pleistocene terrace on the Mississippi Sound. The Late Woodland mound (A.D. 590-780) is composed of local soils, and its presence today is a testament to the ancient builders' knowledge of earthen construction materials and methods. Central to the study of the mound is an integrated geoarchaeological approach that uses stratigraphy and micr…
The DaVincis of dirt
Interpretation of Prepared Clay Surfaces at Dust Cave, Alabama
This paper presents the results of actualistic studies conducted in order to provide insight into prehistoric cooking and processing technologies and their resulting archaeological remains. Excellent preservation conditions at Dust Cave, a deeply stratified Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site in northwest Alabama, have preserved numerous anthropogenic deposits whose function is unknown, including intentionally prepared, burned clay surfaces. …
Soil fertility and slope processes in the Western Cumberland Escarpment of Kentucky
Forest Opening, Habitat Use, and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky
In the rugged uplands of eastern Kentucky, archaeological evidence of pre-maize plant cultivation is largely absent from stream bottom locations, being concentrated instead within upland rockshelters. Some researchers have hypothesized that the apparent failure of early food producers to exploit rich bottomland soils was an economically sound response to the shortcomings of local stream valley habitats. Instead, seed crop farmers favored hillside…
Deciphering human prehistory through the geoarcheological study of cave sediments
Throughout human history, caves and rockshelters have been favored habitation places. These unique environments preserve sediments derived from an assortment of geological and human processes that are typically absent or masked at open‐air sites. Cave sediments are parts of larger stratigraphic frameworks that can reflect environmental changes, shifting microenvironments, and the nature of human activity within these confined and sheltered spaces…
Chronology and Stratigraphy at Dust Cave, Alabama
Dust Cave (1Lu496) is a habitation site in a karstic vestibule in the middle Tennessee River Valley of Northern Alabama. The cave, periodically occupied over 7,000 years, contains well-preserved bone and botanical materials and exhibits microstratigraphy and intact occupation surfaces. The chronostratigraphic framework for Dust Cave is based on 43 14C dates, temporally diagnostic artifacts, and detailed geoarchaeological analysis. In a broad sens…
Microartifacts
Archaeological sediments and soils
Archaeological sediments and soils
The Context of Early Southeastern Prehistoric Cave Art
In the deep recesses of '3rd Unnamed Cave,' a karst cavern in Tennessee, evidence for an ancient association between dark zone cave art and chert mining has recently been documented. The art comprises petroglyphs on the ceiling of a chamber more than 1 km from the cave entrance. On the floor below the art, natural sediments were excavated prehistorically to obtain high-quality chert nodules. Radiocarbon age determinations place the mining during …
Quantifying microartifacts using a personal computer
Microartifact analysis is a worthwhile endeavor in archaeological research. A recurring problem, however, has been the time invested in sample quantification. In this paper we offer an interactive way to quantify microartifact samples using a computer program called MMCOUNT. When the technique is applied during the point counting process, the time required to acquire reliable proportions of material classes can be reduced to approximately 25 minu…
Artifact size and spatial process
Despite their evident utility in archaeological analysis, microartifacts (those artifacts smaller than 2 mm) have, as a class, been used only sparingly by archaeologists and then only as if they were larger artifacts. This article explores the variable information microartifacts contain, using a case study from the Loy Site, a Mississippian village in East Tennessee. We show that microartifacts provide different information from that obtained fro…
The DaVincis of dirt
Look to the earth
Artifact size and spatial process
Despite their evident utility in archaeological analysis, microartifacts (those artifacts smaller than 2 mm) have, as a class, been used only sparingly by archaeologists and then only as if they were larger artifacts. This article explores the variable information microartifacts contain, using a case study from the Loy Site, a Mississippian village in East Tennessee. We show that microartifacts provide different information from that obtained fro…
Chronology and Stratigraphy at Dust Cave, Alabama
Dust Cave (1Lu496) is a habitation site in a karstic vestibule in the middle Tennessee River Valley of Northern Alabama. The cave, periodically occupied over 7,000 years, contains well-preserved bone and botanical materials and exhibits microstratigraphy and intact occupation surfaces. The chronostratigraphic framework for Dust Cave is based on 43 14C dates, temporally diagnostic artifacts, and detailed geoarchaeological analysis. In a broad sens…
Forest Opening, Habitat Use, and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky
In the rugged uplands of eastern Kentucky, archaeological evidence of pre-maize plant cultivation is largely absent from stream bottom locations, being concentrated instead within upland rockshelters. Some researchers have hypothesized that the apparent failure of early food producers to exploit rich bottomland soils was an economically sound response to the shortcomings of local stream valley habitats. Instead, seed crop farmers favored hillside…
An Integrated Geoarchaeology of a Late Woodland Sand Mound
The Graveline Mound (22JA503) is a sand platform mound in Jackson County, Mississippi, built on a low, late Pleistocene terrace on the Mississippi Sound. The Late Woodland mound (A.D. 590-780) is composed of local soils, and its presence today is a testament to the ancient builders' knowledge of earthen construction materials and methods. Central to the study of the mound is an integrated geoarchaeological approach that uses stratigraphy and micr…
Soapstone Vessel Chronology and Function in the Southern Appalachians of Eastern Tennessee
The function and chronology of soapstone vessels in the Eastern Woodlands has been a contentious issue that deserves discussion at a more regional and subregional scale. We provide an overview of the Apple Barn site (40BT90) soapstone vessel assemblage, one of the largest Late Archaic/ Early Woodland collections in the southern Appalachians. Results from residue analysis of pollen, starch, and phytoliths on four vessel fragments reveal the proces…
Interpretation of Prepared Clay Surfaces at Dust Cave, Alabama
This paper presents the results of actualistic studies conducted in order to provide insight into prehistoric cooking and processing technologies and their resulting archaeological remains. Excellent preservation conditions at Dust Cave, a deeply stratified Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site in northwest Alabama, have preserved numerous anthropogenic deposits whose function is unknown, including intentionally prepared, burned clay surfaces. …
Soil fertility and slope processes in the Western Cumberland Escarpment of Kentucky
The Context of Early Southeastern Prehistoric Cave Art
In the deep recesses of '3rd Unnamed Cave,' a karst cavern in Tennessee, evidence for an ancient association between dark zone cave art and chert mining has recently been documented. The art comprises petroglyphs on the ceiling of a chamber more than 1 km from the cave entrance. On the floor below the art, natural sediments were excavated prehistorically to obtain high-quality chert nodules. Radiocarbon age determinations place the mining during …
Emplacement and path dependence in the American Midsouth
New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry
Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA
Systematic field exploration in Tennessee has located a wealth of new rock art-some deep in caves, some in the open air. The authors show that these have a different repertoire and use of colour, and a different distribution in the landscape-the open sites up high and the caves down low. The landscape has been reorganised on cosmological terms by the pre-Columbian societies. This research offers an exemplary rationale for reading rock art beyond …
Quantifying microartifacts using a personal computer
Microartifact analysis is a worthwhile endeavor in archaeological research. A recurring problem, however, has been the time invested in sample quantification. In this paper we offer an interactive way to quantify microartifact samples using a computer program called MMCOUNT. When the technique is applied during the point counting process, the time required to acquire reliable proportions of material classes can be reduced to approximately 25 minu…
A Road to Zacatecas
From 1565 to 1570, Spain established no fewer than three networks of presidios (fortified military settlements) across portions of its frontier territories in La Florida and New Spain. Juan Pardo's network of six forts, extending from the Atlantic coast over the Appalachian Mountains, was the least successful of these presidio systems, lasting only from late 1566 to early 1568. The failure of Pardo's defensive network has long been attributed to …
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
Quantifying microartifacts using a personal computer
Microartifact analysis is a worthwhile endeavor in archaeological research. A recurring problem, however, has been the time invested in sample quantification. In this paper we offer an interactive way to quantify microartifact samples using a computer program called MMCOUNT. When the technique is applied during the point counting process, the time required to acquire reliable proportions of material classes can be reduced to approximately 25 minu…
Artifact size and spatial process
Despite their evident utility in archaeological analysis, microartifacts (those artifacts smaller than 2 mm) have, as a class, been used only sparingly by archaeologists and then only as if they were larger artifacts. This article explores the variable information microartifacts contain, using a case study from the Loy Site, a Mississippian village in East Tennessee. We show that microartifacts provide different information from that obtained fro…
Archaeological sediments and soils
Archaeological sediments and soils
The Context of Early Southeastern Prehistoric Cave Art
In the deep recesses of '3rd Unnamed Cave,' a karst cavern in Tennessee, evidence for an ancient association between dark zone cave art and chert mining has recently been documented. The art comprises petroglyphs on the ceiling of a chamber more than 1 km from the cave entrance. On the floor below the art, natural sediments were excavated prehistorically to obtain high-quality chert nodules. Radiocarbon age determinations place the mining during …
Microartifacts
Chronology and Stratigraphy at Dust Cave, Alabama
Dust Cave (1Lu496) is a habitation site in a karstic vestibule in the middle Tennessee River Valley of Northern Alabama. The cave, periodically occupied over 7,000 years, contains well-preserved bone and botanical materials and exhibits microstratigraphy and intact occupation surfaces. The chronostratigraphic framework for Dust Cave is based on 43 14C dates, temporally diagnostic artifacts, and detailed geoarchaeological analysis. In a broad sens…
Deciphering human prehistory through the geoarcheological study of cave sediments
Throughout human history, caves and rockshelters have been favored habitation places. These unique environments preserve sediments derived from an assortment of geological and human processes that are typically absent or masked at open‐air sites. Cave sediments are parts of larger stratigraphic frameworks that can reflect environmental changes, shifting microenvironments, and the nature of human activity within these confined and sheltered spaces…
Soil fertility and slope processes in the Western Cumberland Escarpment of Kentucky
Forest Opening, Habitat Use, and Food Production on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky
In the rugged uplands of eastern Kentucky, archaeological evidence of pre-maize plant cultivation is largely absent from stream bottom locations, being concentrated instead within upland rockshelters. Some researchers have hypothesized that the apparent failure of early food producers to exploit rich bottomland soils was an economically sound response to the shortcomings of local stream valley habitats. Instead, seed crop farmers favored hillside…
Interpretation of Prepared Clay Surfaces at Dust Cave, Alabama
This paper presents the results of actualistic studies conducted in order to provide insight into prehistoric cooking and processing technologies and their resulting archaeological remains. Excellent preservation conditions at Dust Cave, a deeply stratified Paleoindian through Middle Archaic site in northwest Alabama, have preserved numerous anthropogenic deposits whose function is unknown, including intentionally prepared, burned clay surfaces. …
The DaVincis of dirt
Evidence for Holocene Aeolian Activity at the Close of the Middle Bronze Age in the Eastern Carpathian Basin
While extensive Pleistocene loess deposits have been identified across Eurasia, Holocene age loess (typically nonglaciogenic) is rarely recognized. We explore possible loess deposits in the Mureş River Valley of western Romania, providing a regional signal of increased aridity during the mid‐late Holocene. This proposed aridity may be responsible for the abandonment of Middle Bronze Age tell settlements along the major drainages of the eastern Ca…
Sacred landscapes of the south-eastern USA
Systematic field exploration in Tennessee has located a wealth of new rock art-some deep in caves, some in the open air. The authors show that these have a different repertoire and use of colour, and a different distribution in the landscape-the open sites up high and the caves down low. The landscape has been reorganised on cosmological terms by the pre-Columbian societies. This research offers an exemplary rationale for reading rock art beyond …
An Integrated Geoarchaeology of a Late Woodland Sand Mound
The Graveline Mound (22JA503) is a sand platform mound in Jackson County, Mississippi, built on a low, late Pleistocene terrace on the Mississippi Sound. The Late Woodland mound (A.D. 590-780) is composed of local soils, and its presence today is a testament to the ancient builders' knowledge of earthen construction materials and methods. Central to the study of the mound is an integrated geoarchaeological approach that uses stratigraphy and micr…
Soapstone Vessel Chronology and Function in the Southern Appalachians of Eastern Tennessee
The function and chronology of soapstone vessels in the Eastern Woodlands has been a contentious issue that deserves discussion at a more regional and subregional scale. We provide an overview of the Apple Barn site (40BT90) soapstone vessel assemblage, one of the largest Late Archaic/ Early Woodland collections in the southern Appalachians. Results from residue analysis of pollen, starch, and phytoliths on four vessel fragments reveal the proces…
Mound builders and monument makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600
Mound builders and monument makers of the Northern Great Lakes, 1200–1600." Southeastern Archaeology, 37(2), pp. 165–166
Look to the earth
A Road to Zacatecas
From 1565 to 1570, Spain established no fewer than three networks of presidios (fortified military settlements) across portions of its frontier territories in La Florida and New Spain. Juan Pardo's network of six forts, extending from the Atlantic coast over the Appalachian Mountains, was the least successful of these presidio systems, lasting only from late 1566 to early 1568. The failure of Pardo's defensive network has long been attributed to …
New excavations in Easter Island's statue quarry
Special issue
Emplacement and path dependence in the American Midsouth
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