Mark F Seeman
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 164039 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark F Seeman |
| NOMBRES | Mark F |
| APELLIDO | Seeman |
| FIRMA | SEEMAN M F |
| AFILIACIONES | Kent State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7833-4578 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 157 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Elemental Analysis of Copper from the Mound City Group
The sourcing of exotic raw materials provides a window into the social networks of ancient peoples. Here we source copper from four archaeological contexts at the Mound City Group, a UNESCO World Heritage site and major Hopewell ceremonial site in south-central Ohio, USA. Results of laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry indicate the use of copper at Mound City from both the Great Lakes Copper District and the southern Appala…
Building the Ohio Hopewell Chronology
Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from 'a disarray of radiocarbon results' (Lynott 2015:60). Here, we establish a comprehensive dataset of 425 14C dates from Ohio Hopewell sites and apply formal chronometric hygiene criteria to all dates. We then iteratively assess the temporal placement and span of the six most important Ohio Hopewell sites-the Hopewell Mound Group, Liberty, Mound City, Seip, Tre…
Purpose at Welling
Diez-Martin and colleagues (2021) experimentally reduce four bifaces and argue that the resultant flakes are smaller and less uniform than those found at the Welling site (33Co2). Welling is an early Paleoindian (Clovis) site excavated by Olaf Prufer over 50 years ago. Based on the experiment, the authors conclude that the site was a 'collector-like' base camp and that our previous interpretation must be incorrect. Here, we argue that Diez-Martin…
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Versatility
Hunter-gatherer societies held sway in midwestern North America for at least 11,000 years. Those at the end of this period were more complex and less mobile, and they supported larger populations than those at the beginning, but there are relatively few general conceptions as to when and how this took place. Here we examine the fit of gradual, one-way social change as it relates to the size and shape of lithic supply zones for Upper Mercer and Fl…
Copper as an essential and exotic Hopewell metal
An empirical evaluation of copper procurement and distribution
Use and Multifactorial Reconciliation of Uniface Reduction Measures
How much stone tools are reduced and their form changed from first use to discard bears upon issues such as typological integrity, curation rate, and effects of occupation span. But degree of reduction depends partly upon the measures used to gauge it. Most studies involve single indices that gauge reduction in different ways or at different scales, so results are difficult to compare between studies. In this pilot study, we compare four allometr…
Dental Attrition at the Indian Knoll (15oh2) and Black Earth (11sa87) Sites
This study investigates comparatively the prospect that excessive dental wear in certain Late Archaic populations in eastern North America was caused by extensive shellfish consumption and the associated ingestion of grit. Specifically, the amount and rate of dental wear at Indian Knoll, a large shell midden site in western Kentucky, are compared to those at the Black Earth site, a contemporary occupation in southern Illinois with no evidence of …
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Curation and recycling
This We Know
Working With Wilmsen
This study is an investigation of tool design and the organization of work. Here we further test Wilmsen's (1970) conclusion that early Paleoindian tools-specifically, hafted end scrapers-were redesigned to facilitate the processing of a broader range of resources as colonizing populations moved into the forested environments of eastern North America from the west. We use a large sample from the Nobles Pond site, morphometic variables, and high-p…
Evaluating protein residues on Gainey phase Paleoindian stone tools
A Quantitative Analysis of Skill and Efficiency
We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. The Turner Workshop provides perhaps the largest sample of Ohio Hopewell (ca. A.D. 50–350) blades and blade-cores recovered from a single site to date. We focus on describing the production process at Turner and comparing our results with those from other Ohio Hopewell and nonHopewell blade production sites. Special attention will be focuse…
The Temporal and Social Implications of Ohio Hopewell Copper Ear Spool Design
In a recent synthesis of style theory, Carr (1995) proposed a model based on attribute hierarchies, which reveal social patterns. The present study applies Carr's model of style to a large sample of bicymbal copper ear spools, a diagnostic 'Hopewell' artifact class of the Middle Woodland period (ca. 150 B.C.-A.D. 400) in eastern North America. After ear spool attributes are defined and ranked for their visibility, a seriation of the ear spools is…
Cultural Variability in Context
Intercluster Lithic Patterning at Nobles Pond
This study examines the relation between raw-material procurement and subsistence behavior among foraging societies. 'Embedded procurement' of raw materials may characterize many or most modern foraging societies (Binford 1979). Past societies, however, present economic configurations different than those of any contemporary society. The Early Paleoindian societies of North America present extreme examples in this regard, and were characterized b…
Cultural Variability in Context
Woodland Archaeology in the Mid-Ohio Valley - Setting Parameters for Ohio Main Stem/Tributary Comparisons, Robert F. Maslowski and Mark F. Seeman Woodland Settlement Patterns in the Kentucky/West Virginia Border Region, Charles M. Niquette Woodland Settlement Patterns in the Southern Hocking River Valley, Southeastern Ohio, Elliott M. Abrams Village Origins in Central Ohio - The Results and Implications of Recent Middle and Late Woodland Research…
Ohio Hopewell Trophy-Skull Artifacts as Evidence for Competition in Middle Woodland Societies Circa 50 B.C.. A.D. 350
During the Middle Woodland period in eastern North America, modified human skulls are interjected into a broader pattern of "trophy"-artifact manufacture. Interpretations of these human trophies have resulted in a polarity of opinion-that they are the remains of (1) revered ancestors, or (2) defeated enemies. Both previous investigations of the problem support exclusively the "revered-ancestor" interpretation. Results of the present study, which …
Determining the Cultural Affiliation of Terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian Hunting Stations
Discriminant analysis, a multivariate statistical technique is used to clarify terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian settlement patterns in the lower Ohio Valley. Initially, the ability of this technique to recognize variation among stylistically similar populations of Yankeetown, Angel, and Caborn-Welborn triangular arrow points is tested with favorable results. These results are then used to determine the cultural affiliation of small hunting st…
Intercluster Lithic Patterning at Nobles Pond
This study examines the relation between raw-material procurement and subsistence behavior among foraging societies. 'Embedded procurement' of raw materials may characterize many or most modern foraging societies (Binford 1979). Past societies, however, present economic configurations different than those of any contemporary society. The Early Paleoindian societies of North America present extreme examples in this regard, and were characterized b…
Use and Multifactorial Reconciliation of Uniface Reduction Measures
How much stone tools are reduced and their form changed from first use to discard bears upon issues such as typological integrity, curation rate, and effects of occupation span. But degree of reduction depends partly upon the measures used to gauge it. Most studies involve single indices that gauge reduction in different ways or at different scales, so results are difficult to compare between studies. In this pilot study, we compare four allometr…
An empirical evaluation of copper procurement and distribution
Working With Wilmsen
This study is an investigation of tool design and the organization of work. Here we further test Wilmsen's (1970) conclusion that early Paleoindian tools-specifically, hafted end scrapers-were redesigned to facilitate the processing of a broader range of resources as colonizing populations moved into the forested environments of eastern North America from the west. We use a large sample from the Nobles Pond site, morphometic variables, and high-p…
Evaluating protein residues on Gainey phase Paleoindian stone tools
The Temporal and Social Implications of Ohio Hopewell Copper Ear Spool Design
In a recent synthesis of style theory, Carr (1995) proposed a model based on attribute hierarchies, which reveal social patterns. The present study applies Carr's model of style to a large sample of bicymbal copper ear spools, a diagnostic 'Hopewell' artifact class of the Middle Woodland period (ca. 150 B.C.-A.D. 400) in eastern North America. After ear spool attributes are defined and ranked for their visibility, a seriation of the ear spools is…
Curation and recycling
A Quantitative Analysis of Skill and Efficiency
We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. The Turner Workshop provides perhaps the largest sample of Ohio Hopewell (ca. A.D. 50–350) blades and blade-cores recovered from a single site to date. We focus on describing the production process at Turner and comparing our results with those from other Ohio Hopewell and nonHopewell blade production sites. Special attention will be focuse…
Copper as an essential and exotic Hopewell metal
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Versatility
Hunter-gatherer societies held sway in midwestern North America for at least 11,000 years. Those at the end of this period were more complex and less mobile, and they supported larger populations than those at the beginning, but there are relatively few general conceptions as to when and how this took place. Here we examine the fit of gradual, one-way social change as it relates to the size and shape of lithic supply zones for Upper Mercer and Fl…
Determining the Cultural Affiliation of Terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian Hunting Stations
Discriminant analysis, a multivariate statistical technique is used to clarify terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian settlement patterns in the lower Ohio Valley. Initially, the ability of this technique to recognize variation among stylistically similar populations of Yankeetown, Angel, and Caborn-Welborn triangular arrow points is tested with favorable results. These results are then used to determine the cultural affiliation of small hunting st…
Building the Ohio Hopewell Chronology
Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from 'a disarray of radiocarbon results' (Lynott 2015:60). Here, we establish a comprehensive dataset of 425 14C dates from Ohio Hopewell sites and apply formal chronometric hygiene criteria to all dates. We then iteratively assess the temporal placement and span of the six most important Ohio Hopewell sites-the Hopewell Mound Group, Liberty, Mound City, Seip, Tre…
Purpose at Welling
Diez-Martin and colleagues (2021) experimentally reduce four bifaces and argue that the resultant flakes are smaller and less uniform than those found at the Welling site (33Co2). Welling is an early Paleoindian (Clovis) site excavated by Olaf Prufer over 50 years ago. Based on the experiment, the authors conclude that the site was a 'collector-like' base camp and that our previous interpretation must be incorrect. Here, we argue that Diez-Martin…
Dental Attrition at the Indian Knoll (15oh2) and Black Earth (11sa87) Sites
This study investigates comparatively the prospect that excessive dental wear in certain Late Archaic populations in eastern North America was caused by extensive shellfish consumption and the associated ingestion of grit. Specifically, the amount and rate of dental wear at Indian Knoll, a large shell midden site in western Kentucky, are compared to those at the Black Earth site, a contemporary occupation in southern Illinois with no evidence of …
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Cultural Variability in Context
Determining the Cultural Affiliation of Terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian Hunting Stations
Discriminant analysis, a multivariate statistical technique is used to clarify terminal Late Woodland-Mississippian settlement patterns in the lower Ohio Valley. Initially, the ability of this technique to recognize variation among stylistically similar populations of Yankeetown, Angel, and Caborn-Welborn triangular arrow points is tested with favorable results. These results are then used to determine the cultural affiliation of small hunting st…
Ohio Hopewell Trophy-Skull Artifacts as Evidence for Competition in Middle Woodland Societies Circa 50 B.C.. A.D. 350
During the Middle Woodland period in eastern North America, modified human skulls are interjected into a broader pattern of "trophy"-artifact manufacture. Interpretations of these human trophies have resulted in a polarity of opinion-that they are the remains of (1) revered ancestors, or (2) defeated enemies. Both previous investigations of the problem support exclusively the "revered-ancestor" interpretation. Results of the present study, which …
Cultural Variability in Context
Woodland Archaeology in the Mid-Ohio Valley - Setting Parameters for Ohio Main Stem/Tributary Comparisons, Robert F. Maslowski and Mark F. Seeman Woodland Settlement Patterns in the Kentucky/West Virginia Border Region, Charles M. Niquette Woodland Settlement Patterns in the Southern Hocking River Valley, Southeastern Ohio, Elliott M. Abrams Village Origins in Central Ohio - The Results and Implications of Recent Middle and Late Woodland Research…
Cultural Variability in Context
Intercluster Lithic Patterning at Nobles Pond
This study examines the relation between raw-material procurement and subsistence behavior among foraging societies. 'Embedded procurement' of raw materials may characterize many or most modern foraging societies (Binford 1979). Past societies, however, present economic configurations different than those of any contemporary society. The Early Paleoindian societies of North America present extreme examples in this regard, and were characterized b…
The Temporal and Social Implications of Ohio Hopewell Copper Ear Spool Design
In a recent synthesis of style theory, Carr (1995) proposed a model based on attribute hierarchies, which reveal social patterns. The present study applies Carr's model of style to a large sample of bicymbal copper ear spools, a diagnostic 'Hopewell' artifact class of the Middle Woodland period (ca. 150 B.C.-A.D. 400) in eastern North America. After ear spool attributes are defined and ranked for their visibility, a seriation of the ear spools is…
A Quantitative Analysis of Skill and Efficiency
We describe and analyze blade production at a small site near the Turner Earthworks, Hamilton County, Ohio. The Turner Workshop provides perhaps the largest sample of Ohio Hopewell (ca. A.D. 50–350) blades and blade-cores recovered from a single site to date. We focus on describing the production process at Turner and comparing our results with those from other Ohio Hopewell and nonHopewell blade production sites. Special attention will be focuse…
Evaluating protein residues on Gainey phase Paleoindian stone tools
This We Know
Working With Wilmsen
This study is an investigation of tool design and the organization of work. Here we further test Wilmsen's (1970) conclusion that early Paleoindian tools-specifically, hafted end scrapers-were redesigned to facilitate the processing of a broader range of resources as colonizing populations moved into the forested environments of eastern North America from the west. We use a large sample from the Nobles Pond site, morphometic variables, and high-p…
Curation and recycling
Dental Attrition at the Indian Knoll (15oh2) and Black Earth (11sa87) Sites
This study investigates comparatively the prospect that excessive dental wear in certain Late Archaic populations in eastern North America was caused by extensive shellfish consumption and the associated ingestion of grit. Specifically, the amount and rate of dental wear at Indian Knoll, a large shell midden site in western Kentucky, are compared to those at the Black Earth site, a contemporary occupation in southern Illinois with no evidence of …
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Use and Multifactorial Reconciliation of Uniface Reduction Measures
How much stone tools are reduced and their form changed from first use to discard bears upon issues such as typological integrity, curation rate, and effects of occupation span. But degree of reduction depends partly upon the measures used to gauge it. Most studies involve single indices that gauge reduction in different ways or at different scales, so results are difficult to compare between studies. In this pilot study, we compare four allometr…
An empirical evaluation of copper procurement and distribution
Copper as an essential and exotic Hopewell metal
Hunter-Gatherer Mobility and Versatility
Hunter-gatherer societies held sway in midwestern North America for at least 11,000 years. Those at the end of this period were more complex and less mobile, and they supported larger populations than those at the beginning, but there are relatively few general conceptions as to when and how this took place. Here we examine the fit of gradual, one-way social change as it relates to the size and shape of lithic supply zones for Upper Mercer and Fl…
Purpose at Welling
Diez-Martin and colleagues (2021) experimentally reduce four bifaces and argue that the resultant flakes are smaller and less uniform than those found at the Welling site (33Co2). Welling is an early Paleoindian (Clovis) site excavated by Olaf Prufer over 50 years ago. Based on the experiment, the authors conclude that the site was a 'collector-like' base camp and that our previous interpretation must be incorrect. Here, we argue that Diez-Martin…
Building the Ohio Hopewell Chronology
Ohio Hopewell is an archaeological concept that is known worldwide but that suffers from 'a disarray of radiocarbon results' (Lynott 2015:60). Here, we establish a comprehensive dataset of 425 14C dates from Ohio Hopewell sites and apply formal chronometric hygiene criteria to all dates. We then iteratively assess the temporal placement and span of the six most important Ohio Hopewell sites-the Hopewell Mound Group, Liberty, Mound City, Seip, Tre…
An Elemental Analysis of Copper from the Mound City Group
The sourcing of exotic raw materials provides a window into the social networks of ancient peoples. Here we source copper from four archaeological contexts at the Mound City Group, a UNESCO World Heritage site and major Hopewell ceremonial site in south-central Ohio, USA. Results of laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry indicate the use of copper at Mound City from both the Great Lakes Copper District and the southern Appala…
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