Kenneth L Kvamme
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 240300 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth L Kvamme |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth L |
| APELLIDO | Kvamme |
| FIRMA | KVAMME K L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9094-0156 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 302 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1978 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
A filter for characterizing the ridge-drainage continuum in digital elevation models
Geophysical correlation
Robust anomalies that point to the same buried features frequently occur in diverse data sets from multi‐method surveys [e.g. ground penetrating radar (GPR), magnetic gradiometry, electrical resistivity]. Relationships between such corresponding anomalies traditionally have been noted subjectively, through visual comparisons of mappings or overlays of geophysical results. These circumstances create a paradox because theory and correlational studi…
The nineteenth-century Mandan/Arikara village at Fort Clark
The nineteenth century earthlodge village at the Fort Clark State Historic Site (32ME2) in North Dakota was occupied by two different groups between 1822 and 1861. The village was initially constru
Magnetic investigations of nomadic group encampments at Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota
Extensive geophysical investigations were performed at Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota, in 2011 and 2012. One objective of this project was to investigate potential nomadic group camping locations associated with the Mandan-Arikara village and the Fort Clark trading post that are only briefly mentioned in historic accounts. We anticipated that over time nomadic group camp activities at Fort Clark would leave characteristic signatures…
Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology Parcak, Sarah H. Routledge, London, 2009. Pages
Geophysical contributions to the understanding of Northern Great Plains archaeology, USA
Geophysical surveys over the past dozen years have contributed significant new knowledge to the understanding of prehistoric and historic village sites in the Northern Great Plains, in what is now North and South Dakota, USA. These surveys have covered entire villages, or significant parts of villages, utilizing magnetic gradiometry, electrical resistance, electromagnetic induction, ground-penetrating radar (GPR), and thermal infrared methods. Th…
Data processing issues in large‐area GPR surveys
Ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) lags behind other archaeogeophysical methods in terms of speed, efficiency and ability to produce clean site‐wide composites owing to complex and time‐consuming data processing requirements. Two North American case studies illustrate problems that occur when survey is conducted over long and short periods of time. Some GPR defects have been blamed on differential solar heating of antennae and battery power levels bu…
Archaeological prospecting at the Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota, USA
A four‐year programme of remote sensing at the Double Ditch State Historic Site, a fortified earthlodge village in the Great Plains of North Dakota, USA, demonstrates the importance of combined prospecting methods for understanding the multidimensional nature of complex settlements. Aerial survey from a powered parachute acquired high‐resolution digital colour and thermal infrared imagery. The former distinguishes houses, borrow pits and ditches …
Integrating Multiple Geophysical Datasets
Integrated Remote Sensing and Excavation at Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota
A four-year program of remote sensing at the Double Ditch State Historic Site (32BL8) demonstrates the utility of combined prospecting methods for understanding complex settlements when combined with traditional excavation methods. Magnetic gradiometry revealed countless subterranean storage pits, hearths, and two previously unknown fortification systems that vastly increase the settlement's area and projected population to perhaps 2,000 individu…
Landscape Archaeology and Remote Sensing of a Spanish-Conquest Town
Robotic total station for microtopographic mapping
Past human activities in cultural landscapes are often expressed by subtle variations in surface topography that reflect buried archaeological features. When seen from the air under low sunlight angles, resultant ‘shadow marks’ form a cornerstone of site detection in aerial archaeology. Past attempts to quantify and map such variations across large archaeological landscapes have resorted to aerial photogrammetry, electronic total stations, air‐ a…
Integrating multidimensional geophysical data
Surveys that utilize multiple geophysical methods offer greater insights about the subsurface because each one generally yields different information. Common approaches to integrating or ‘fusing’ multidimensional geophysical data are investigated utilizing computer graphics, geographical information system (GIS), mathematical and statistical solutions. These approaches are synthesized into graphical, discrete and continuous domains. It is shown t…
Multidimensional prospecting in North American Great Plains village sites
Geophysical survey results are described for four prehistoric and historic fortified earthlodge settlements located in the Middle Missouri River basin of North and South Dakota, USA. One impetus for this work is the upcoming bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 that used the Missouri as its route of travel. Celebrated as an event that helped to open the American West to Euroamerican settlement, tourism at archaeological par…
St Annual Plains Anthropological Conference
St Annual Plains Anthropological Conference
Geophysical Surveys as Landscape Archaeology
Recent advances in technology and practice allow geophysical surveys in archaeology to produce maps of subsurface features over large areas and in potentially great detail. It is shown through a series of case studies from two regions in North America that archaeo-geophysical surveys can produce primary information suitable for the study of site content, structure and organization, for examining spatial patterns and relationships, and for directl…
The "Big House" At Whistling Elk Village (39HU242)
Magnetic gradiometry and electrical resistivity surveys carried out at the site of Whistling Elk (39HU242), a fortified earthlodge settlement of the Plains Village tradition, Initial Coalescent variant (ca AD 1300), unambiguously defined numerous features including fortification ditches, bastion loops, and houses. One anomaly group was particularly noteworthy because it suggested an unusually large house measuring approximately 100m2, 3-4 times l…
Current Practices in Archaeogeophysics
Recent directions and developments in geographical information systems
Recent Directions and Developments in Geographical Information Systems
Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems
Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking
(1997). Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking. Lithic Technology: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 122-138
A Wider View of the Relationship between Settlement Size and Population in the Peruvian Andes
Although the relationship between settled area and population size has been well studied in archaeology, anthropology, and geography, with numerous empirical data sets, an established methodological approach, and a body of theory, Schreiber and Kintigh's (1996) analysis of archaeological and historical data from the Peruvian Andes found 'only a weak correlation' between these variables. By employing double logarithmic data, the relationship is sh…
Alternative Procedures for Assessing Standardization in Ceramic Assemblages
Interest in the material correlates of economic specialization has led to numerous quantitative studies of standardization (or the lack of it) in craft production, particularly of ceramics. Most of this research has focused on measures of variation and conventional statistical procedures in the treatment of the empirical data, many of which are dependent on unrealistic assumptions (such as normal populations), yielding results that can be questio…
Southwestern Pottery Standardization
Archaeologists assume that products of specialists will be standardized and that standardized pottery reveals the presence of full-time potters. To test these assumptions, two populations of contemporary Philippine cooking pots are studied: those made on a household basis by the Kalinga, a “tribal” society, and those from Paradijon, a neighborhood of full-time potters. The data indicate that pots from Paradijon are much more standardized than tho…
An experiment in archaeological site location
Regional models portraying archaeological expectation or sensitivity based on knowledge of the current archaeological situation can be of great use to archaeologists in the Netherlands. If past work can be used to guide future efforts to the most archaeologically sensitive regions, benefits in efficiency, cost‐reduction, preservation, etc. can be realized. A GIS‐based approach to archaeological modeling is described that summarizes archaeological…
Integrating multidimensional geophysical data
Surveys that utilize multiple geophysical methods offer greater insights about the subsurface because each one generally yields different information. Common approaches to integrating or ‘fusing’ multidimensional geophysical data are investigated utilizing computer graphics, geographical information system (GIS), mathematical and statistical solutions. These approaches are synthesized into graphical, discrete and continuous domains. It is shown t…
Recent Directions and Developments in Geographical Information Systems
Geophysical Surveys as Landscape Archaeology
Recent advances in technology and practice allow geophysical surveys in archaeology to produce maps of subsurface features over large areas and in potentially great detail. It is shown through a series of case studies from two regions in North America that archaeo-geophysical surveys can produce primary information suitable for the study of site content, structure and organization, for examining spatial patterns and relationships, and for directl…
Archaeological prospecting at the Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota, USA
A four‐year programme of remote sensing at the Double Ditch State Historic Site, a fortified earthlodge village in the Great Plains of North Dakota, USA, demonstrates the importance of combined prospecting methods for understanding the multidimensional nature of complex settlements. Aerial survey from a powered parachute acquired high‐resolution digital colour and thermal infrared imagery. The former distinguishes houses, borrow pits and ditches …
Multidimensional prospecting in North American Great Plains village sites
Geophysical survey results are described for four prehistoric and historic fortified earthlodge settlements located in the Middle Missouri River basin of North and South Dakota, USA. One impetus for this work is the upcoming bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 that used the Missouri as its route of travel. Celebrated as an event that helped to open the American West to Euroamerican settlement, tourism at archaeological par…
Alternative Procedures for Assessing Standardization in Ceramic Assemblages
Interest in the material correlates of economic specialization has led to numerous quantitative studies of standardization (or the lack of it) in craft production, particularly of ceramics. Most of this research has focused on measures of variation and conventional statistical procedures in the treatment of the empirical data, many of which are dependent on unrealistic assumptions (such as normal populations), yielding results that can be questio…
Spatial Autocorrelation and the Classic Maya Collapse revisited
Recent directions and developments in geographical information systems
Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking
(1997). Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking. Lithic Technology: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 122-138
A Predictive Site Location Model on the High Plains
Models of archaeological site location that have a predictive capacity formed an integral part of the Pinon Canyon Archaeological Project, located in Las Animas County, southeastem Colorado. The models were developed through a focus on settlement theory and previous archaeological work, and through a combination of techniques and technologies including multivariate statistics, decision theory, principles of pattern recognition, image classificati…
Integrated Remote Sensing and Excavation at Double Ditch State Historic Site, North Dakota
A four-year program of remote sensing at the Double Ditch State Historic Site (32BL8) demonstrates the utility of combined prospecting methods for understanding complex settlements when combined with traditional excavation methods. Magnetic gradiometry revealed countless subterranean storage pits, hearths, and two previously unknown fortification systems that vastly increase the settlement's area and projected population to perhaps 2,000 individu…
Use of a Falling-Weight Tester for Assessing Ceramic Impact Strength
A falling-weight device was developed for testing ceramic impact strength. Tests carried out on a large sample of commercial tiles showed that the incremental height test, wherein drop height is raised gradually, is the most reliable. In order to assess the accuracy of the test, an additional experiment was performed on laboratory-made briquettes fired at 550, 650, 750, 850, and 950 °C. In contrast to the results of Bronitsky and Hamer's (1986) p…
Robotic total station for microtopographic mapping
Past human activities in cultural landscapes are often expressed by subtle variations in surface topography that reflect buried archaeological features. When seen from the air under low sunlight angles, resultant ‘shadow marks’ form a cornerstone of site detection in aerial archaeology. Past attempts to quantify and map such variations across large archaeological landscapes have resorted to aerial photogrammetry, electronic total stations, air‐ a…
One-Sample Tests in Regional Archaeological Analysis
Archaeologists commonly employ two-sample statistical tests in regional locational analyses that compare environmental measurements obtained at site locations against measurements taken at random locations from the background environment. One-sample tests that compare a site sample against a background standard are conceptually and statistically superior, but have been difficult to implement for continuous data types. This situation now is change…
The "Big House" At Whistling Elk Village (39HU242)
Magnetic gradiometry and electrical resistivity surveys carried out at the site of Whistling Elk (39HU242), a fortified earthlodge settlement of the Plains Village tradition, Initial Coalescent variant (ca AD 1300), unambiguously defined numerous features including fortification ditches, bastion loops, and houses. One anomaly group was particularly noteworthy because it suggested an unusually large house measuring approximately 100m2, 3-4 times l…
A New Technique for the Measurement of Artifact Angles
A new technique for the measurement of artifact angles is presented. A clay impression of an edge is made, the angle of the edge is then measured with a 6X comparator equipped with an angle measuring reticle. The technique is compared with other angle measuring techniques currently in use. Additional measurement capabilities of the comparator are also presented
Geophysical correlation
Robust anomalies that point to the same buried features frequently occur in diverse data sets from multi‐method surveys [e.g. ground penetrating radar (GPR), magnetic gradiometry, electrical resistivity]. Relationships between such corresponding anomalies traditionally have been noted subjectively, through visual comparisons of mappings or overlays of geophysical results. These circumstances create a paradox because theory and correlational studi…
Magnetic investigations of nomadic group encampments at Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota
Extensive geophysical investigations were performed at Fort Clark State Historic Site, North Dakota, in 2011 and 2012. One objective of this project was to investigate potential nomadic group camping locations associated with the Mandan-Arikara village and the Fort Clark trading post that are only briefly mentioned in historic accounts. We anticipated that over time nomadic group camp activities at Fort Clark would leave characteristic signatures…
Data processing issues in large‐area GPR surveys
Ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) lags behind other archaeogeophysical methods in terms of speed, efficiency and ability to produce clean site‐wide composites owing to complex and time‐consuming data processing requirements. Two North American case studies illustrate problems that occur when survey is conducted over long and short periods of time. Some GPR defects have been blamed on differential solar heating of antennae and battery power levels bu…
A Permutation Technique for the Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Artifacts into Classes
A permutation test for assessing intrasite patterning of artifact distributions in archaeological space is presented. This test requires none of the usual assumptions about the data; permits either exact locational or counts/grid data in one-, two-, or three-dimensional space; and provides an exact method for testing any hypothesis concerning the nonrandom allocation of artifacts into classes within a site
A Simple Graphic Approach And Poor Man'S Clustering Technique For Investigating Surface Lithic Scatter Types
To the archaeologist working in much of the Great Plains one of the most difficult problems rests in making sense out of the numerous lithic scatter sites which are commonly found. In the absence of significant features like bison bone beds, hearths, or tipi rings (often the case), it is difficult to define types or classes of sites in a justifiable manner based solely on amorphous collections of lithic debris and the occasional chipped stone too…
Improvements in the Permutation Test for the Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Artifacts into Classes
Refinements and extensions to the permutation test for assessing the intrasite patterning of artifact distributions in an archaeological space are presented. Specifically, a Pearson type III distribution is employed to approximate the sampling distribution of the test statistic, an improved weighting is introduced to increase the efficiency of the test, and a method is presented to permit the inclusion of unclassified artifacts in the spatial ana…
A filter for characterizing the ridge-drainage continuum in digital elevation models
A New Technique for the Measurement of Artifact Angles
A new technique for the measurement of artifact angles is presented. A clay impression of an edge is made, the angle of the edge is then measured with a 6X comparator equipped with an angle measuring reticle. The technique is compared with other angle measuring techniques currently in use. Additional measurement capabilities of the comparator are also presented
A Permutation Technique for the Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Artifacts into Classes
A permutation test for assessing intrasite patterning of artifact distributions in archaeological space is presented. This test requires none of the usual assumptions about the data; permits either exact locational or counts/grid data in one-, two-, or three-dimensional space; and provides an exact method for testing any hypothesis concerning the nonrandom allocation of artifacts into classes within a site
A Reexamination of Roper’S Trend-Surface Analysis of Central Plains Radiocarbon Dates
A reexamination of Roper's (1976) trend-surface analysis of Central Plains radiocarbon dates indicates that 1) a nonlinear trend in the data was not recognized, and 2) the dates of the trend-surface contours given in her map of the Central Plains are in error. A revised trend-surface model is presented which better describes the site data and more closely agrees with the Central Plains cultural sequence
Improvements in the Permutation Test for the Spatial Analysis of the Distribution of Artifacts into Classes
Refinements and extensions to the permutation test for assessing the intrasite patterning of artifact distributions in an archaeological space are presented. Specifically, a Pearson type III distribution is employed to approximate the sampling distribution of the test statistic, an improved weighting is introduced to increase the efficiency of the test, and a method is presented to permit the inclusion of unclassified artifacts in the spatial ana…
In Defense of Roper (1976)
A Simple Graphic Approach And Poor Man'S Clustering Technique For Investigating Surface Lithic Scatter Types
To the archaeologist working in much of the Great Plains one of the most difficult problems rests in making sense out of the numerous lithic scatter sites which are commonly found. In the absence of significant features like bison bone beds, hearths, or tipi rings (often the case), it is difficult to define types or classes of sites in a justifiable manner based solely on amorphous collections of lithic debris and the occasional chipped stone too…
Southwestern Pottery Standardization
Archaeologists assume that products of specialists will be standardized and that standardized pottery reveals the presence of full-time potters. To test these assumptions, two populations of contemporary Philippine cooking pots are studied: those made on a household basis by the Kalinga, a “tribal” society, and those from Paradijon, a neighborhood of full-time potters. The data indicate that pots from Paradijon are much more standardized than tho…
Use of a Falling-Weight Tester for Assessing Ceramic Impact Strength
A falling-weight device was developed for testing ceramic impact strength. Tests carried out on a large sample of commercial tiles showed that the incremental height test, wherein drop height is raised gradually, is the most reliable. In order to assess the accuracy of the test, an additional experiment was performed on laboratory-made briquettes fired at 550, 650, 750, 850, and 950 °C. In contrast to the results of Bronitsky and Hamer's (1986) p…
Spatial Autocorrelation and the Classic Maya Collapse revisited
One-Sample Tests in Regional Archaeological Analysis
Archaeologists commonly employ two-sample statistical tests in regional locational analyses that compare environmental measurements obtained at site locations against measurements taken at random locations from the background environment. One-sample tests that compare a site sample against a background standard are conceptually and statistically superior, but have been difficult to implement for continuous data types. This situation now is change…
Quantifying Diversity in Archaeology . Robert D. Leonard and George T. Jones
A Predictive Site Location Model on the High Plains
Models of archaeological site location that have a predictive capacity formed an integral part of the Pinon Canyon Archaeological Project, located in Las Animas County, southeastem Colorado. The models were developed through a focus on settlement theory and previous archaeological work, and through a combination of techniques and technologies including multivariate statistics, decision theory, principles of pattern recognition, image classificati…
An experiment in archaeological site location
Regional models portraying archaeological expectation or sensitivity based on knowledge of the current archaeological situation can be of great use to archaeologists in the Netherlands. If past work can be used to guide future efforts to the most archaeologically sensitive regions, benefits in efficiency, cost‐reduction, preservation, etc. can be realized. A GIS‐based approach to archaeological modeling is described that summarizes archaeological…
Alternative Procedures for Assessing Standardization in Ceramic Assemblages
Interest in the material correlates of economic specialization has led to numerous quantitative studies of standardization (or the lack of it) in craft production, particularly of ceramics. Most of this research has focused on measures of variation and conventional statistical procedures in the treatment of the empirical data, many of which are dependent on unrealistic assumptions (such as normal populations), yielding results that can be questio…
Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking
(1997). Patterns and Models of Debitage Dispersal in Percussion Flaking. Lithic Technology: Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 122-138
A Wider View of the Relationship between Settlement Size and Population in the Peruvian Andes
Although the relationship between settled area and population size has been well studied in archaeology, anthropology, and geography, with numerous empirical data sets, an established methodological approach, and a body of theory, Schreiber and Kintigh's (1996) analysis of archaeological and historical data from the Peruvian Andes found 'only a weak correlation' between these variables. By employing double logarithmic data, the relationship is sh…
Anthropology, space, and geographic information systems
Recent directions and developments in geographical information systems
Recent Directions and Developments in Geographical Information Systems
Current Practices in Archaeogeophysics
The "Big House" At Whistling Elk Village (39HU242)
Magnetic gradiometry and electrical resistivity surveys carried out at the site of Whistling Elk (39HU242), a fortified earthlodge settlement of the Plains Village tradition, Initial Coalescent variant (ca AD 1300), unambiguously defined numerous features including fortification ditches, bastion loops, and houses. One anomaly group was particularly noteworthy because it suggested an unusually large house measuring approximately 100m2, 3-4 times l…
Multidimensional prospecting in North American Great Plains village sites
Geophysical survey results are described for four prehistoric and historic fortified earthlodge settlements located in the Middle Missouri River basin of North and South Dakota, USA. One impetus for this work is the upcoming bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 that used the Missouri as its route of travel. Celebrated as an event that helped to open the American West to Euroamerican settlement, tourism at archaeological par…
St Annual Plains Anthropological Conference
St Annual Plains Anthropological Conference
Geophysical Surveys as Landscape Archaeology
Recent advances in technology and practice allow geophysical surveys in archaeology to produce maps of subsurface features over large areas and in potentially great detail. It is shown through a series of case studies from two regions in North America that archaeo-geophysical surveys can produce primary information suitable for the study of site content, structure and organization, for examining spatial patterns and relationships, and for directl…
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