Joel C Janetski
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3736632 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Joel C Janetski |
| NOMBRES | Joel C |
| APELLIDO | Janetski |
| FIRMA | JANETSKI J C |
| AFILIACIONES | Brigham Young University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6051-9865 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 251 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
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…
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories
Holocene vegetation and climate change on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah, USA
Pollen, plant macrofossils, and sedimentary analyses from archaeological deposits at North Creek Shelter (NCS) on the Colorado Plateau provide data on vegetation and climate change during the Holocene. From 11,300–10,200 cal yr BP, NCS was embedded in a mixed conifer forest of cool-adapted species (e.g., Abies , Pseudotsuga menziesii , and Pinus ponderosa ) with an Artemisia understory. During this interval, NCS pollen corresponds to modern polle…
Reevaluation of Basketmaker II origins
Late Archaic to Early Puebloan Occupation on the Arizona Strip, Northwestern Arizona
The Arizona Strip, a sparsely populated region in the northwest corner of Arizona, is poorly known archaeologically, especially for the Pre-Puebloan periods. Recorded Archaic sites on the Strip tend to date after 4,000 years ago, although few sites of that age have been investigated and reported in the extreme western area. Modest tests at Rock Canyon Shelter on the Uinkaret Plateau yielded insights into late Archaic use of the region, while Zea …
The Geometric Kebaran occupation and lithic assemblage of Wadi Mataha, Southern Jordan
Curation practices and extraction methods in relation to starch grain yields from ground stone artifacts
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…
Archaeological Fingerprinting and Fremont Figurines
After the anonymous 2011 return of a long-missing Pilling Fremont figurine, a multi-disciplinary research team conducted “fingerprint” analyses in an effort to match it to 10 mates with intact provenance. The Pilling figurines, crafted 1,000 years ago and cached in a remote sandstone niche in eastern Utah, are the most significant find of Fremont portable art ever documented because they occurred in situ and are unparalleled in detail and complet…
The stable and radio-isotope chemistry of southeastern Utah Basketmaker II burials
Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest
A re-assessment of Basketmaker II cave 7
Early Holocene Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Remains from Southern Utah
Archaeological studies have demonstrated the increasingly important role of turkeys in the lives of ancient Puebloan peoples of the American Southwest. The origin of domesticated turkeys, however, remains an unanswered question especially given the absence of turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) in early and middle Holocene contexts prior to the arrival of maize agriculture. This paper reports turkey remains from very early Holocene deposits in North C…
The Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic Transition on the Colorado Plateau
Recent literature on Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic strategies in the arid west of North America has characterized the shift from the earlier to later period as constituting an adaptive discontinuity. The empirical bases for this conclusion are shifts in mobility, subsistence, and technology. Paleoarchaic peoples are described as highly mobile, focused on a diversity of animal resources, including birds and small game, and using more exotic tools…
Variability in symbolic behaviour in the southern Levant at the end of the Pleistocene
This paper presents evidence for a high degree of variability in symbolic representation at the multi-component, Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer encampment at Wadi Mataha in the Petra Basin of southern Jordan. Twelve sandstone, siltstone, basalt and flint objects were recovered from Geometric Kebaran and Early and Late Natufian occupations of the site during excavations in 1999 and 2001 and subsequently examined using both optical and scanning el…
The Onset of Small Seed Processing on the Colorado Plateau
Small seeds played an important dietary role during the Archaic period in the arid west of North America. The timing of the onset of intensive small seed use is of interest as it suggests a broadening of diets by early peoples and has implications for climatic change. Here we review both direct and indirect evidences of small seed use at critical sites in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. This information combined with new data from North Cre…
The Stable- and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Western Basketmaker Burials
The timing and degree of reliance on maize agriculture in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest has been a central issue in studies that examine the origins of Puebloan society. Both diffusionist (various, but see Wills 1995) and migrationist (Berry and Berry 1986; Matson 1991) models have been proposed to explain the processes responsible for the movement of maize (Zea mays) north into the Four Corners region. This paper reports bone…
Bryce Canyon National Park
F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant
The discovery of a Middle Epipaleolithic adult skeleton (F-81) at the site of Wadi Mataha in southern Jordan provides new insights into human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant. This paper analyzes the skeletal morphology of Wadi Mataha F-81 in the context of other Epipaleolithic remains from Jordan and Israel to assess the current evidence for morphological variability throughout this period. The F-81 skeleton shares morphological f…
Distinctive Bone Disks from Utah Valley
The discovery of distinctive bone disks in central Utah similar to and contemporary with specimens from the Four Corners area argues for cultural connections between these regions during the Basketmaker period. Archaeologists have long debated the cultural processes that might explain the onset of farming north of the Virgin-Colorado Rivers in Utah. Although there is no dispute that maize farming derived from the Southwest, the question of whethe…
Trade in Fremont society
Hidden Dimensions
Coles Prehistoric Wetland Sites in Sweden / Lars Larsson Wetland Archaeological Sites in Aotearoa (New Zealand) Prehistory / Cathryn Barr Wetlands-Associated Sites on the Russian Far East: A Review of Environment, Chronology, and Paleoeconomy / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Wetlands and Hunter-Gatherer Land Use in North America / George P. Nicholas Part 2: Wet-Site Perspectives, Past and Present The Importance of the Biskupin Wet Site for Twentieth-Century …
Fremont Hunting and Resource Intensification in the Eastern Great Basin
The Ute of Utah Lake
The Ute of Utah Lake
Fremont Hunting and Resource Intensification in the Eastern Great Basin
The stable and radio-isotope chemistry of southeastern Utah Basketmaker II burials
The Stable- and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Western Basketmaker Burials
The timing and degree of reliance on maize agriculture in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest has been a central issue in studies that examine the origins of Puebloan society. Both diffusionist (various, but see Wills 1995) and migrationist (Berry and Berry 1986; Matson 1991) models have been proposed to explain the processes responsible for the movement of maize (Zea mays) north into the Four Corners region. This paper reports bone…
Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest
F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant
The discovery of a Middle Epipaleolithic adult skeleton (F-81) at the site of Wadi Mataha in southern Jordan provides new insights into human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant. This paper analyzes the skeletal morphology of Wadi Mataha F-81 in the context of other Epipaleolithic remains from Jordan and Israel to assess the current evidence for morphological variability throughout this period. The F-81 skeleton shares morphological f…
The Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic Transition on the Colorado Plateau
Recent literature on Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic strategies in the arid west of North America has characterized the shift from the earlier to later period as constituting an adaptive discontinuity. The empirical bases for this conclusion are shifts in mobility, subsistence, and technology. Paleoarchaic peoples are described as highly mobile, focused on a diversity of animal resources, including birds and small game, and using more exotic tools…
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…
Reevaluation of Basketmaker II origins
Curation practices and extraction methods in relation to starch grain yields from ground stone artifacts
Variability in symbolic behaviour in the southern Levant at the end of the Pleistocene
This paper presents evidence for a high degree of variability in symbolic representation at the multi-component, Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer encampment at Wadi Mataha in the Petra Basin of southern Jordan. Twelve sandstone, siltstone, basalt and flint objects were recovered from Geometric Kebaran and Early and Late Natufian occupations of the site during excavations in 1999 and 2001 and subsequently examined using both optical and scanning el…
The Onset of Small Seed Processing on the Colorado Plateau
Small seeds played an important dietary role during the Archaic period in the arid west of North America. The timing of the onset of intensive small seed use is of interest as it suggests a broadening of diets by early peoples and has implications for climatic change. Here we review both direct and indirect evidences of small seed use at critical sites in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. This information combined with new data from North Cre…
A re-assessment of Basketmaker II cave 7
Utah Lake
Research Article| January 01 1990 Utah Lake: Its Role in the Prehistory of Utah Valley JOEL C. JANETSKI JOEL C. JANETSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utah Historical Quarterly (1990) 58 (1): 5–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/45061899 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JOEL C. JANETSKI; Utah Lake: Its Role in the Prehistory of Utah Valley. Utah Historical Quar…
Holes in Our Moccasins, Holes in Our Stories
Late Archaic to Early Puebloan Occupation on the Arizona Strip, Northwestern Arizona
The Arizona Strip, a sparsely populated region in the northwest corner of Arizona, is poorly known archaeologically, especially for the Pre-Puebloan periods. Recorded Archaic sites on the Strip tend to date after 4,000 years ago, although few sites of that age have been investigated and reported in the extreme western area. Modest tests at Rock Canyon Shelter on the Uinkaret Plateau yielded insights into late Archaic use of the region, while Zea …
Archaeological Fingerprinting and Fremont Figurines
After the anonymous 2011 return of a long-missing Pilling Fremont figurine, a multi-disciplinary research team conducted “fingerprint” analyses in an effort to match it to 10 mates with intact provenance. The Pilling figurines, crafted 1,000 years ago and cached in a remote sandstone niche in eastern Utah, are the most significant find of Fremont portable art ever documented because they occurred in situ and are unparalleled in detail and complet…
Early Holocene Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Remains from Southern Utah
Archaeological studies have demonstrated the increasingly important role of turkeys in the lives of ancient Puebloan peoples of the American Southwest. The origin of domesticated turkeys, however, remains an unanswered question especially given the absence of turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) in early and middle Holocene contexts prior to the arrival of maize agriculture. This paper reports turkey remains from very early Holocene deposits in North C…
The Ute of Utah Lake
Pahaska Tepee
Journal Article Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel, a History, 1901–1946 Get access Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel, a History, 1901–1946. By Kensel W. Hudson. (Cody, WY: Buffalo Bill Historical Center, 1987. viii + 120 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $6.95, paper.) Joel C. Janetski Joel C. Janetski Brigham Young University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Utah Lake
Research Article| January 01 1990 Utah Lake: Its Role in the Prehistory of Utah Valley JOEL C. JANETSKI JOEL C. JANETSKI Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utah Historical Quarterly (1990) 58 (1): 5–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/45061899 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation JOEL C. JANETSKI; Utah Lake: Its Role in the Prehistory of Utah Valley. Utah Historical Quar…
The Ute of Utah Lake
The Ute of Utah Lake
Fremont Hunting and Resource Intensification in the Eastern Great Basin
Hidden Dimensions
Coles Prehistoric Wetland Sites in Sweden / Lars Larsson Wetland Archaeological Sites in Aotearoa (New Zealand) Prehistory / Cathryn Barr Wetlands-Associated Sites on the Russian Far East: A Review of Environment, Chronology, and Paleoeconomy / Yaroslav V. Kuzmin Wetlands and Hunter-Gatherer Land Use in North America / George P. Nicholas Part 2: Wet-Site Perspectives, Past and Present The Importance of the Biskupin Wet Site for Twentieth-Century …
Trade in Fremont society
Distinctive Bone Disks from Utah Valley
The discovery of distinctive bone disks in central Utah similar to and contemporary with specimens from the Four Corners area argues for cultural connections between these regions during the Basketmaker period. Archaeologists have long debated the cultural processes that might explain the onset of farming north of the Virgin-Colorado Rivers in Utah. Although there is no dispute that maize farming derived from the Southwest, the question of whethe…
F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant
The discovery of a Middle Epipaleolithic adult skeleton (F-81) at the site of Wadi Mataha in southern Jordan provides new insights into human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant. This paper analyzes the skeletal morphology of Wadi Mataha F-81 in the context of other Epipaleolithic remains from Jordan and Israel to assess the current evidence for morphological variability throughout this period. The F-81 skeleton shares morphological f…
Bryce Canyon National Park
The Stable- and Radio-Isotope Chemistry of Western Basketmaker Burials
The timing and degree of reliance on maize agriculture in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest has been a central issue in studies that examine the origins of Puebloan society. Both diffusionist (various, but see Wills 1995) and migrationist (Berry and Berry 1986; Matson 1991) models have been proposed to explain the processes responsible for the movement of maize (Zea mays) north into the Four Corners region. This paper reports bone…
The Onset of Small Seed Processing on the Colorado Plateau
Small seeds played an important dietary role during the Archaic period in the arid west of North America. The timing of the onset of intensive small seed use is of interest as it suggests a broadening of diets by early peoples and has implications for climatic change. Here we review both direct and indirect evidences of small seed use at critical sites in the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. This information combined with new data from North Cre…
Variability in symbolic behaviour in the southern Levant at the end of the Pleistocene
This paper presents evidence for a high degree of variability in symbolic representation at the multi-component, Epipalaeolithic hunter-gatherer encampment at Wadi Mataha in the Petra Basin of southern Jordan. Twelve sandstone, siltstone, basalt and flint objects were recovered from Geometric Kebaran and Early and Late Natufian occupations of the site during excavations in 1999 and 2001 and subsequently examined using both optical and scanning el…
A re-assessment of Basketmaker II cave 7
Early Holocene Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) Remains from Southern Utah
Archaeological studies have demonstrated the increasingly important role of turkeys in the lives of ancient Puebloan peoples of the American Southwest. The origin of domesticated turkeys, however, remains an unanswered question especially given the absence of turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) in early and middle Holocene contexts prior to the arrival of maize agriculture. This paper reports turkey remains from very early Holocene deposits in North C…
The Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic Transition on the Colorado Plateau
Recent literature on Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic strategies in the arid west of North America has characterized the shift from the earlier to later period as constituting an adaptive discontinuity. The empirical bases for this conclusion are shifts in mobility, subsistence, and technology. Paleoarchaic peoples are described as highly mobile, focused on a diversity of animal resources, including birds and small game, and using more exotic tools…
Archaeological Fingerprinting and Fremont Figurines
After the anonymous 2011 return of a long-missing Pilling Fremont figurine, a multi-disciplinary research team conducted “fingerprint” analyses in an effort to match it to 10 mates with intact provenance. The Pilling figurines, crafted 1,000 years ago and cached in a remote sandstone niche in eastern Utah, are the most significant find of Fremont portable art ever documented because they occurred in situ and are unparalleled in detail and complet…
The stable and radio-isotope chemistry of southeastern Utah Basketmaker II burials
Archaeology in the Great Basin and Southwest
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…
Curation practices and extraction methods in relation to starch grain yields from ground stone artifacts
The Geometric Kebaran occupation and lithic assemblage of Wadi Mataha, Southern Jordan
Late Archaic to Early Puebloan Occupation on the Arizona Strip, Northwestern Arizona
The Arizona Strip, a sparsely populated region in the northwest corner of Arizona, is poorly known archaeologically, especially for the Pre-Puebloan periods. Recorded Archaic sites on the Strip tend to date after 4,000 years ago, although few sites of that age have been investigated and reported in the extreme western area. Modest tests at Rock Canyon Shelter on the Uinkaret Plateau yielded insights into late Archaic use of the region, while Zea …
Reevaluation of Basketmaker II origins
Holocene vegetation and climate change on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah, USA
Pollen, plant macrofossils, and sedimentary analyses from archaeological deposits at North Creek Shelter (NCS) on the Colorado Plateau provide data on vegetation and climate change during the Holocene. From 11,300–10,200 cal yr BP, NCS was embedded in a mixed conifer forest of cool-adapted species (e.g., Abies , Pseudotsuga menziesii , and Pinus ponderosa ) with an Artemisia understory. During this interval, NCS pollen corresponds to modern polle…
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