John W Ives
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 158184 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | John W Ives |
| NOMBRES | John W |
| APELLIDO | Ives |
| FIRMA | IVES J W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7494-6363 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Long-distance jade exchange, linguistic boundaries, and migration in pre-contact western Canada
Nephrite (jade) was used for over 3000 years in western North America to make ground stone celts, some of which were transported over one thousand kilometers across boundaries of Indigenous languages and ecological regions. We employ archaeometric means to confirm nephrite identification and plot all known archaeological occurrences east of the Rocky Mountains. Nephrite celts are among the most widely dispersed artifacts in pre-contact Canada but…
Heat Before Breaking
Despite a growing recognition of the valuable information that detailed analyses of burned bone can provide in archaeological contexts, relatively few studies have investigated the relationship between the spatial distribution of burning marks and cooking behaviors. This study addresses this gap by applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to record thermal alterations on bone surfaces and to conduct a kernel density analysis of a 5500‐year‐o…
Pronghorn and Cultural Practices at Promontory Cave 1 in Utah
Promontory Cave 1 served as a culturally significant site in thirteenth century CE northern Utah, a region shaped by dynamic interactions between incoming Subarctic populations and established Great Basin groups. This study highlights the role of pronghorn, the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, in these social exchanges, suggesting that the species may have been central to communal gathering events held at the cave. Zooarchaeological…
Stemmed Points and the Ice-Free Corridor
Fluting or basal thinning of lanceolate points can be readily recognized, so that much reasoning about the initial occupation of the Ice-Free Corridor has centered on the fluted point phenomenon.Fewer comparisons have been made with stemmed points from the Plateau and Great Basin, which have considerable morphological variability and a time range that extends from 14,000 or more years ago to as recently as 8000 years ago.A broad time range is als…
Parsing Fluted Point Technological Variability in the South-Central Ice-Free Corridor
Southern portions of the Ice-Free Corridor likely became habitable not long after 14,000 cal yr BP, available to both stemmed and fluted projectile point makers. There has been little exploration of the technological pathways through which Corridor fluted points were manufactured and maintained, nor has much thought been devoted to fluted point findspots and their implications for discarded fluted point forms. Recent findings from the Brazeau Res…
A Stemmed Point Assemblage from the Peace River Country of Northwestern Alberta
The Poohkay (GlQl-3) artifacts, from a site situated near the forks of the Peace and Smoky Rivers of northwestern Alberta, reflect a lost tool kit or possible offering deposited on unusual terrain on the floor of former Glacial Lake Peace. The GlQl-3 points and preforms cannot currently be dated but share strong metric and morphological similarities with Haskett and Hell Gap points, although one specimen is indistinguishable from Sluiceway materi…
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Obsidian in Alberta and Human Dispersal into North America’s Ice-Free Corridor
We utilize pXRF to source the oldest obsidian artifacts in Alberta, Canada. The province lacks obsidian outcrops and hosts much of the late Pleistocene Ice-Free Corridor, the northern and southern ends of which are in proximity to obsidian outcrops in Yukon, Alaska, Idaho, and Wyoming. The early presence of these obsidians in Alberta informs models of human dispersion. Results point to an early establishment of relationships in the central Ice-Fr…
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear
The thirteenth-century human occupants of the Promontory caves, Utah, distinguished themselves from surrounding Fremont populations by being successful hunting specialists of bison in a region normally peripheral for that species. The hunters’ success is evident from the abundance of faunal remains excavated from the dry caves. The dry cave conditions also preserved hundreds of worn moccasins, which are of particular interest because of the Canad…
Power, security, and exchange
We synthesize environmental and cultural change following a volcanic eruption at A.D. 846–848 in Subarctic North America to demonstrate how social relationships shaped responses to natural disasters. Ethnohistoric accounts and archaeometric studies reveal differences in human adaptations in the Yukon and Mackenzie river basins that relate to exertions of power over contested resources versus affordances of security to intercept dispersed migratin…
Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants
The Promontory caves (Utah) and Franktown Cave (Colorado) contain high-fidelity records of short-term occupations by groups with material culture connections to the Subarctic/Northern Plains. This research uses Promontory and Franktown bison dung, hair, hide, and bone collagen to establish local baseline carbon isotopic variability and identify leather from a distant source. The ankle wrap of one Promontory Cave 1 moccasin had a δ13C value that i…
Confluences
We undertake an expanded analysis of the Western Canadian Fluted Points database. Given clear evidence of biotic habitability along the entire Corridor by 13,000 years ago, fluted point spatial clusters likely reflect both Clovis contemporaneous and later fluted point instances. Points were overwhelmingly fashioned on local toolstones, featuring a bimodal length distribution (larger, relatively unaltered fluted points versus reworked, smaller flu…
The movement of obsidian in Subarctic Canada
Identifying and sourcing pyrometamorphic artifacts
Kinship, Demography, and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization
Inferring demographic structure with moccasin size data from the P romontory C aves, U tah
The moccasin assemblage Julian Steward recovered from the Promontory caves in 1930–31 provides a novel example in which material culture can be used to understand the structure of an AD thirteenth century population. Several studies shed light on the relationship between shoe size, foot size, and stature. We develop an anthropometric model for understanding the composition of the Promontory Cave population by using moccasin size as a proxy for fo…
Radiocarbon and Protein Analyses Indicate an Early Holocene Age for the Osseous Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Grenfell bone rod resembles other instances of Clovis-era organic or osseous technology and has on a number of occasions been considered with other Clovis bone, antler, and ivory rods or beveled artifacts. It had been suspected of being constructed from proboscidean long bone. As an early discovery (made in 1883), the Grenfell artifact had somewhat obscure provenience details and a lengthy curatorial history. We describe accelerator mass spec…
A High Resolution Chronology for Steward's Promontory Culture Collections, Promontory Point, Utah
Despite the rich array of perishables Julian Steward (1937) recovered during his 1930s excavations, the Promontory Cave assemblages were dated in relative terms with just a handful of radiocarbon assays until recently. Yet Promontory Caves 1 and 2 are the type sites from which the Promontory Culture was defined, and these assemblages have a critical bearing on our conception of three significant issues in western North American prehistory: the te…
Late Side-Notched Projectile Points in the Northern Plains
The most commonly used classificatory scheme for Late Side-notched projectile points (LSPP) in the northern Plains divides specimens for the entire region into two types: the Prairie Side-notched (ca. 1250-650 B.P.) and the Plains Side-notched (ca. 650 B.P. to the Historic period). An attribute analysis of 2327 points from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan indicates that from ca. 1250 to 650 B.P. all specimens exhibited a similar range o…
A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community
The movement of obsidian in Subarctic Canada
A High Resolution Chronology for Steward's Promontory Culture Collections, Promontory Point, Utah
Despite the rich array of perishables Julian Steward (1937) recovered during his 1930s excavations, the Promontory Cave assemblages were dated in relative terms with just a handful of radiocarbon assays until recently. Yet Promontory Caves 1 and 2 are the type sites from which the Promontory Culture was defined, and these assemblages have a critical bearing on our conception of three significant issues in western North American prehistory: the te…
Late Side-Notched Projectile Points in the Northern Plains
The most commonly used classificatory scheme for Late Side-notched projectile points (LSPP) in the northern Plains divides specimens for the entire region into two types: the Prairie Side-notched (ca. 1250-650 B.P.) and the Plains Side-notched (ca. 650 B.P. to the Historic period). An attribute analysis of 2327 points from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan indicates that from ca. 1250 to 650 B.P. all specimens exhibited a similar range o…
Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants
The Promontory caves (Utah) and Franktown Cave (Colorado) contain high-fidelity records of short-term occupations by groups with material culture connections to the Subarctic/Northern Plains. This research uses Promontory and Franktown bison dung, hair, hide, and bone collagen to establish local baseline carbon isotopic variability and identify leather from a distant source. The ankle wrap of one Promontory Cave 1 moccasin had a δ13C value that i…
Identifying and sourcing pyrometamorphic artifacts
Inferring demographic structure with moccasin size data from the P romontory C aves, U tah
The moccasin assemblage Julian Steward recovered from the Promontory caves in 1930–31 provides a novel example in which material culture can be used to understand the structure of an AD thirteenth century population. Several studies shed light on the relationship between shoe size, foot size, and stature. We develop an anthropometric model for understanding the composition of the Promontory Cave population by using moccasin size as a proxy for fo…
Power, security, and exchange
We synthesize environmental and cultural change following a volcanic eruption at A.D. 846–848 in Subarctic North America to demonstrate how social relationships shaped responses to natural disasters. Ethnohistoric accounts and archaeometric studies reveal differences in human adaptations in the Yukon and Mackenzie river basins that relate to exertions of power over contested resources versus affordances of security to intercept dispersed migratin…
Radiocarbon and Protein Analyses Indicate an Early Holocene Age for the Osseous Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Grenfell bone rod resembles other instances of Clovis-era organic or osseous technology and has on a number of occasions been considered with other Clovis bone, antler, and ivory rods or beveled artifacts. It had been suspected of being constructed from proboscidean long bone. As an early discovery (made in 1883), the Grenfell artifact had somewhat obscure provenience details and a lengthy curatorial history. We describe accelerator mass spec…
A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Obsidian in Alberta and Human Dispersal into North America’s Ice-Free Corridor
We utilize pXRF to source the oldest obsidian artifacts in Alberta, Canada. The province lacks obsidian outcrops and hosts much of the late Pleistocene Ice-Free Corridor, the northern and southern ends of which are in proximity to obsidian outcrops in Yukon, Alaska, Idaho, and Wyoming. The early presence of these obsidians in Alberta informs models of human dispersion. Results point to an early establishment of relationships in the central Ice-Fr…
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear
The thirteenth-century human occupants of the Promontory caves, Utah, distinguished themselves from surrounding Fremont populations by being successful hunting specialists of bison in a region normally peripheral for that species. The hunters’ success is evident from the abundance of faunal remains excavated from the dry caves. The dry cave conditions also preserved hundreds of worn moccasins, which are of particular interest because of the Canad…
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories
Kinship and the Drum Dance in a Northern Dene Community
A Theory of Northern Athapaskan Prehistory
Late Side-Notched Projectile Points in the Northern Plains
The most commonly used classificatory scheme for Late Side-notched projectile points (LSPP) in the northern Plains divides specimens for the entire region into two types: the Prairie Side-notched (ca. 1250-650 B.P.) and the Plains Side-notched (ca. 650 B.P. to the Historic period). An attribute analysis of 2327 points from southern Alberta and southern Saskatchewan indicates that from ca. 1250 to 650 B.P. all specimens exhibited a similar range o…
Radiocarbon and Protein Analyses Indicate an Early Holocene Age for the Osseous Rod from Grenfell, Saskatchewan, Canada
The Grenfell bone rod resembles other instances of Clovis-era organic or osseous technology and has on a number of occasions been considered with other Clovis bone, antler, and ivory rods or beveled artifacts. It had been suspected of being constructed from proboscidean long bone. As an early discovery (made in 1883), the Grenfell artifact had somewhat obscure provenience details and a lengthy curatorial history. We describe accelerator mass spec…
A High Resolution Chronology for Steward's Promontory Culture Collections, Promontory Point, Utah
Despite the rich array of perishables Julian Steward (1937) recovered during his 1930s excavations, the Promontory Cave assemblages were dated in relative terms with just a handful of radiocarbon assays until recently. Yet Promontory Caves 1 and 2 are the type sites from which the Promontory Culture was defined, and these assemblages have a critical bearing on our conception of three significant issues in western North American prehistory: the te…
Kinship, Demography, and Paleoindian Modes of Colonization
Inferring demographic structure with moccasin size data from the P romontory C aves, U tah
The moccasin assemblage Julian Steward recovered from the Promontory caves in 1930–31 provides a novel example in which material culture can be used to understand the structure of an AD thirteenth century population. Several studies shed light on the relationship between shoe size, foot size, and stature. We develop an anthropometric model for understanding the composition of the Promontory Cave population by using moccasin size as a proxy for fo…
Identifying and sourcing pyrometamorphic artifacts
Confluences
We undertake an expanded analysis of the Western Canadian Fluted Points database. Given clear evidence of biotic habitability along the entire Corridor by 13,000 years ago, fluted point spatial clusters likely reflect both Clovis contemporaneous and later fluted point instances. Points were overwhelmingly fashioned on local toolstones, featuring a bimodal length distribution (larger, relatively unaltered fluted points versus reworked, smaller flu…
The movement of obsidian in Subarctic Canada
Ancient DNA-based sex determination of bison hide moccasins indicates Promontory cave occupants selected female hides for footwear
The thirteenth-century human occupants of the Promontory caves, Utah, distinguished themselves from surrounding Fremont populations by being successful hunting specialists of bison in a region normally peripheral for that species. The hunters’ success is evident from the abundance of faunal remains excavated from the dry caves. The dry cave conditions also preserved hundreds of worn moccasins, which are of particular interest because of the Canad…
Power, security, and exchange
We synthesize environmental and cultural change following a volcanic eruption at A.D. 846–848 in Subarctic North America to demonstrate how social relationships shaped responses to natural disasters. Ethnohistoric accounts and archaeometric studies reveal differences in human adaptations in the Yukon and Mackenzie river basins that relate to exertions of power over contested resources versus affordances of security to intercept dispersed migratin…
Isotopic Evidence for Long-Distance Connections of the AD Thirteenth-Century Promontory Caves Occupants
The Promontory caves (Utah) and Franktown Cave (Colorado) contain high-fidelity records of short-term occupations by groups with material culture connections to the Subarctic/Northern Plains. This research uses Promontory and Franktown bison dung, hair, hide, and bone collagen to establish local baseline carbon isotopic variability and identify leather from a distant source. The ankle wrap of one Promontory Cave 1 moccasin had a δ13C value that i…
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Obsidian in Alberta and Human Dispersal into North America’s Ice-Free Corridor
We utilize pXRF to source the oldest obsidian artifacts in Alberta, Canada. The province lacks obsidian outcrops and hosts much of the late Pleistocene Ice-Free Corridor, the northern and southern ends of which are in proximity to obsidian outcrops in Yukon, Alaska, Idaho, and Wyoming. The early presence of these obsidians in Alberta informs models of human dispersion. Results point to an early establishment of relationships in the central Ice-Fr…
Stemmed Points and the Ice-Free Corridor
Fluting or basal thinning of lanceolate points can be readily recognized, so that much reasoning about the initial occupation of the Ice-Free Corridor has centered on the fluted point phenomenon.Fewer comparisons have been made with stemmed points from the Plateau and Great Basin, which have considerable morphological variability and a time range that extends from 14,000 or more years ago to as recently as 8000 years ago.A broad time range is als…
Parsing Fluted Point Technological Variability in the South-Central Ice-Free Corridor
Southern portions of the Ice-Free Corridor likely became habitable not long after 14,000 cal yr BP, available to both stemmed and fluted projectile point makers. There has been little exploration of the technological pathways through which Corridor fluted points were manufactured and maintained, nor has much thought been devoted to fluted point findspots and their implications for discarded fluted point forms. Recent findings from the Brazeau Res…
A Stemmed Point Assemblage from the Peace River Country of Northwestern Alberta
The Poohkay (GlQl-3) artifacts, from a site situated near the forks of the Peace and Smoky Rivers of northwestern Alberta, reflect a lost tool kit or possible offering deposited on unusual terrain on the floor of former Glacial Lake Peace. The GlQl-3 points and preforms cannot currently be dated but share strong metric and morphological similarities with Haskett and Hell Gap points, although one specimen is indistinguishable from Sluiceway materi…
Long-distance jade exchange, linguistic boundaries, and migration in pre-contact western Canada
Nephrite (jade) was used for over 3000 years in western North America to make ground stone celts, some of which were transported over one thousand kilometers across boundaries of Indigenous languages and ecological regions. We employ archaeometric means to confirm nephrite identification and plot all known archaeological occurrences east of the Rocky Mountains. Nephrite celts are among the most widely dispersed artifacts in pre-contact Canada but…
Heat Before Breaking
Despite a growing recognition of the valuable information that detailed analyses of burned bone can provide in archaeological contexts, relatively few studies have investigated the relationship between the spatial distribution of burning marks and cooking behaviors. This study addresses this gap by applying Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to record thermal alterations on bone surfaces and to conduct a kernel density analysis of a 5500‐year‐o…
Pronghorn and Cultural Practices at Promontory Cave 1 in Utah
Promontory Cave 1 served as a culturally significant site in thirteenth century CE northern Utah, a region shaped by dynamic interactions between incoming Subarctic populations and established Great Basin groups. This study highlights the role of pronghorn, the fastest land mammal in the Western Hemisphere, in these social exchanges, suggesting that the species may have been central to communal gathering events held at the cave. Zooarchaeological…
Archaeology (16 obras) · Geography (15 obras) · Geology (13 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (11 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 obras) · Paleontology (7 obras) · Geology (6 obras) · Promontory (6 obras) · Cave (5 obras) · History (5 obras)