Kenneth B Tankersley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 83939 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth B Tankersley |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth B |
| APELLIDO | Tankersley |
| FIRMA | TANKERSLEY K B |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2474-6283 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 299 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
The Eagle Station impact site
The Eagle Station impact site is located along Eagle Creek in Carrol County, Kentucky. Pallasites (23 cm to ≤ 3 mm), a rare form of stony meteorites, occur in a late Archaic cultural period stratum with heat-altered flaked-stone artifacts, carbonized plant remains, and fire-cracked rocks. A calibrated AMS radiocarbon age of 3824 BP to 3593 BP (1875 BCE to 1644 BCE) on the pallasite-bearing stratum demonstrates that the impact event occurred durin…
The Eads earthwork
Eads (33Ct750) is a recently discovered Hopewell hilltop earthwork, which encloses ∼10 ha above the Bares Run-O’Bannon Creek-Little Miami River confluence area. Eads falls within the interquartile size range of other Ohio Hopewell earthworks. Like the nearby Foster's enclosure, Eads is a sub-meter earthwork with a single pronounced east-to-west berm, > 70.0 m in length and > 5.0 m in height. The peak of promontory aligns with the center of the Go…
Interpreting δ 13 C Values Obtained on SOM from Ancient Maya Reservoirs and Depressions
Elemental analyzer (EA) Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry was used to measure ∂ 13 C values on soil organic matter from reservoirs and depressions at the ancient Maya urban centers of Tikal, Guatemala and Yaxnohcah, Mexico. Variation in δ 13 C values on soil organic matter were > −2.0‰, which suggests enrichment from C4 plants including maize, other tropical grasses (Poaceae), and tropical sedges (Cyperaceae), CAM plants (Clusia sp.), and cyanobact…
Geochronological aspects of terminal Late Fort Ancient sites in the Little Miami-Ohio Rivers confluence area and their archeological significance
A geochronological approach is used to examine the temporal and spatial parameters of terminal Late Fort Ancient (∼1450 –1750 CE) habitation sites in the Little Miami-Ohio Rivers confluence area. We use a Bayesian analysis of radiocarbon dates, microtephrochronology, a biostratigraphic indicator ( Bison bison), and ethnohistorical records to examine terminal Late Fort Ancient sites in this region. Circular, stockaded villages (≤ 5 ha), consisting…
A Close Look at the Big Picture
Early Paleoindians were the first people to inhabit the Midwestern United States and exploit its natural bounty, including its lithic resources. The traditional view of early Paleoindians has been that they were highly mobile hunter-gatherers, unrestricted by lithic resource availability. A series of fluted point collections and a set of analytical techniques provided the necessary data to evaluate patterns in Early Paleoindian lithic procurement…
Red Bird and Sequoyah
Red Bird was a Cherokee murdered at the Red Bird River Petroglyph site (15Cy51) and buried at the Red Bird River Rockshelter (15Cy52) during the late eighteenth century, where he left an important record of traditional petroglyphs. His legacy is key to understanding the origins of Sequoyah's Cherokee Syllabary and its relationship to rock art. Personal testimonies of Red Bird's descendants are supported by primary documents and archaeological evi…
The impact of maize (Zea mays) on the stable carbon isotope values of archaeological soil organic matter
Holocene faunal procurement and species response to climate change in the Ohio River valley
This paper examines the temporal distribution of 163 distinct species recovered from 21 well-dated Holocene age archaeological sites in the Ohio River valley to determine patterns of faunal resource procurement and their response to periods of climate change. Climate change proxies include bison, long-billed curlew, pine marten, porcupine, prairie vole, and swamp rabbit. While the rice rat may be a proxy of climate change, its initial appearance …
The impact of soil salinity on maize agriculture
This article uses experimental archaeology to provide empirical data on the impact of soil salinization on ancient maize agriculture. Hopi blue maize was experimentally grown in a drought-prone soil containing an extremely high level (50%) of evaporite mineral salts (CaCO 3 , CaSO 4 , and NaCl) in order to evaluate their effect on agricultural productivity. A control group of plants was grown in the absence of mineral salts. All of plants, which …
An introduction to archaeological approaches to Holocene economies
Geochronology and Paleoenvironmental Framework for the Oldest Archaeological Site (7800-7900 Cal Bp) in the West Indies, Banwari Trace, Trinidad
Banwari Trace, a well-stratified shell midden located in southeastern Trinidad, provides the oldest known archaeological evidence of human settlement in the West Indies and has been crucial to our understanding of the initial peopling of the greater Caribbean region. Detailed excavation profile descriptions, soil and faunal analyses, accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating, and stable carbon isotope …
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Pueblo population of Chaco Canyon during the Bonito Phase (AD 800–1130) employed agricultural strategies and water-management systems to enhance food cultivation in this unpredictable environment. Scepticism concerning the timing and effectiveness of this system, however, remains common. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments and LiDAR imaging, the authors located Bonito Phase canal features at the far west end of the can…
Volcanic minerals in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico and their archaeological significance
Geochemical, economic, and ethnographic approaches to the evaluation of soil, salinity, and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Micro-flotation removal of coal contaminants from archaeological radiocarbon samples from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, USA
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Catastrophic volcanism and its implication for agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
Stable carbon isotope values (δ13C) of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and their archaeological significance
Quaternary chronostratigraphy and stable isotope paleoecology of Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, USA
Big Bone Lick (BBL) in northern Kentucky, USA has been a critical geologic site in the historical development of North American Quaternary vertebrate paleontology since the 1700s. Sedimentology, geoarcheology, paleontology, accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating, and stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analyses were undertaken to develop a chronostratigraphy and history of erosion and deposition for …
Evidence for volcanic ash fall in the Maya Lowlands from a reservoir at Tikal, Guatemala
Further Evaluation of Fluoride Dating by Ion Selective Electrode Analysis
Fluoride dating by ion selective electrode (ISE) analysis is a viable relative dating technique for dense cortical bone from archaeological sites. The fluoride content of cortical bone and rate of absorption is directly related to the porosity and microstructure of the sample and post-depositional environmental variables including the CaF 2 content of the bedrock, soil, and changes in groundwater levels, flow rates, and chemical composition. Dens…
Was Newtown a Fort Ancient Progenitor
Petrography and powder x-ray diffraction show a technological continuity between Newtown and Fort Ancient pottery in the central Ohio River valley. Both Newtown and Fort Ancient pottery were manufactured from clays derived from Upper Ordovician shale and calcium carbonate temper. The initial use of calcium carbonate temper in the central Ohio River valley co-occurs with the appearance of maize in the Middle Woodland cultural period and may have b…
X-ray powder diffraction analysis of Late Holocene reservoir sediments
Riker-Todd
Riker-Todd was a Middle Woodland Hopewell Mound located on a glaciated upland in Union Township, Butler County, Ohio. Radiocarbon dating and anthropogenic stratigraphy indicate that there were at least three different mound building episodes between ca. 5 B.C. to A.D. 631. Stylistically distinctive artifacts and mtDNA from Riker-Todd Mound fall within the range of other Middle Woodland Hopewell sites in North America and most closely resemble tho…
Sources of Stable Isotope Variation in Archaeological Dog Remains
Assessment of the δ 15 N ratios and δ 13 C isotope values of archaeological dog and human bone collagen, ethnoarchaeological dog bone collagen, and ethnoarchaeological dog and human hair protein demonstrates that these tissues can be used to show subtle differences in diet between households at the same site. While δ 13 C isotope values for dog and human bone and hair protein can be used as evidence of C 4 photosynthetic plant foods, it is not ne…
Evidence of Early Paleoindian Bone Modification and Use at the Sheriden Cave Site (33WY252), Wyandot County, Ohio
The analysis of osseous (bone, antler, or ivory) beveled shafts or 'rods' has become an important focus in the study of early Paleoindian tool technology. Since 1995 two carved and beveled bone rods have been recovered from Sheriden Cave in northwest Ohio in depositional strata that are radiocarbon dated to between 11,060 and 10,400 radiocarbon years B.P. These strata also contained a small, reworked, Gainey-style fluted point; cut and burned ani…
Archaeology of the Pleistocene–holocene Transition in Eastern North America
The Age of the Paleoindian Assemblage at Sheriden Cave, Ohio
Direct dating of a Paleoindian bone point from Sheriden Cave, Ohio, yielded a radiocarbon age of 10,915 ± 30 14C yr B.P. (UCIAMS-38249). This date was derived on highly purified bone collagen. This bone point was found in association with another bone projectile point and a reworked, fluted Clovis projectile point. The artifacts from Sheriden Cave fall within the age range of other Clovis sites in North America, dating to the late Allerød, before…
Variation in the Early Paleoindian Economies of Late Pleistocene Eastern North America
The nature of Early Paleoindian economies in late Pleistocene eastern North America has been extensively debated by archaeologists. To better understand paleoeconomies we need to examine intraregional and interregional diversity in the production, consumption, distribution, and exchange of materials that sustained or reproduced early Paleoindian livelihoods. Coarse-grained comparisons drawn on the composition of flaked-stone tool assemblages from…
The Colonization of Eastern Siberia
They Have a Rock That Bleeds
Early Paleoindians mined specular and earthy hematite (henceforth known as Sunrise red ochre) at the Powars II site, Platte County, Wyoming. Sunrise red ochre has a distinctive mineralogy, chemical composition, and bioinclusions in comparison to other sources of red ochre. Artifactual red ochre from the pre-Folsom levels at the Hell Gap site comparesfavorablywith the physical, chemical, and biological properties of Sunrise red ochre. These new da…
Evidence for volcanic ash fall in the Maya Lowlands from a reservoir at Tikal, Guatemala
Seasonality of Stone Procurement
Early Paleoindian subsistence activities were not restricted to the procurement and processing of food. Likewise, studies of early Paleoindian subsistence cycles should not depend solely upon seasonality data from plant and animal remains. Geographic, geochronologic, geologic, and pedologic data obtained from the Emanon Pond site, an early Paleoindian workshop-habitation in northwestern New York state, are used to reconstruct the seasonality of s…
The Effects of Stone and Technology on Fluted-Point Morphometry
Previous morphometric studies have identified variation in fluted-point thickness data but have seldom considered its cultural or technological sources. New data from western and eastern North America suggest that variation in fluted-point thickness results from variability in lithic raw-material selectivity and bifacial-flaking techniques
Sources of Stable Isotope Variation in Archaeological Dog Remains
Assessment of the δ 15 N ratios and δ 13 C isotope values of archaeological dog and human bone collagen, ethnoarchaeological dog bone collagen, and ethnoarchaeological dog and human hair protein demonstrates that these tissues can be used to show subtle differences in diet between households at the same site. While δ 13 C isotope values for dog and human bone and hair protein can be used as evidence of C 4 photosynthetic plant foods, it is not ne…
Water uncertainty, ritual predictability and agricultural canals at Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
The Pueblo population of Chaco Canyon during the Bonito Phase (AD 800–1130) employed agricultural strategies and water-management systems to enhance food cultivation in this unpredictable environment. Scepticism concerning the timing and effectiveness of this system, however, remains common. Using optically stimulated luminescence dating of sediments and LiDAR imaging, the authors located Bonito Phase canal features at the far west end of the can…
Fluoride Dating of Mastodon Bone from an Early Paleoindian Spring Site
Clovis Mastic and its Hafting Implications
Early Paleoindian Land Use, Mobility, and Lithic Exploitation Patterns
This article documents 583 fluted projectile points from seventy-two Indiana counties. While fluted points occur in virtually all microtopographic settings, the highest frequency were recovered from riparian settings or overlooks of those areas. The largest concentrations of these artifacts are located on the terraces of major streams. More than half of the fluted points documented were found in the unglaciated portion of the state along the Ohio…
Bison Exploitation by Late Fort Ancient Peoples in the Central Ohio River Valley
Recent radiocarbon dating demonstrates that Bison bison was present in the central Ohio River Valley between AD 1450 and 1800. The association of this species with cultural material suggests that bison were exploited as a source of food and raw material by Fort Ancient peoples of the Madisonville phase. Bison sought access to the salt and sulphur spings at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, making this an important locale for bison exploitation
Recognition of Bituminous Coal Contaminants in Radiocarbon Samples
Bituminous coal, previously suspected as a contaminant in radiocarbon samples, has now been demonstrated to be a source of dating error in archaeological and geological samples. Standard laboratory procedures are inadequate to recognize or remove coal from samples, but techniques for identifying coal particles include paleo-botanical and reflectance analyses, and possibly accelerator dating
Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Geochronology and Paleoenvironmental Framework for the Oldest Archaeological Site (7800-7900 Cal Bp) in the West Indies, Banwari Trace, Trinidad
Banwari Trace, a well-stratified shell midden located in southeastern Trinidad, provides the oldest known archaeological evidence of human settlement in the West Indies and has been crucial to our understanding of the initial peopling of the greater Caribbean region. Detailed excavation profile descriptions, soil and faunal analyses, accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon and optically stimulated luminescence dating, and stable carbon isotope …
Catastrophic volcanism and its implication for agriculture in the Maya Lowlands
Stable carbon isotope values (δ13C) of purslane (Portulaca oleracea) and their archaeological significance
X-ray powder diffraction analysis of Late Holocene reservoir sediments
The Mariemont Earthwork
Mariemont is a hilltop Fort Ancient serpentine-shaped earthwork located in Hamilton County, Ohio. High-resolution magnetic susceptibility analysis, ground-truthed with radiocarbon dating, demonstrates that it was built during the Little Ice Age, a cold and dry climatic downturn. Detailed geological and geographic analyses show that the earthwork was a gravity-fed hydraulic structure, which channeled precipitation and surface runoff to the protohi…
Archaeological Geology of the Turner Site Complex, Hamilton County, Ohio
For more than 150 years, the age of the Turner site complex has been based on the seriation of artifacts and geometry of the earthworks. Seriation failed to provide meaningful relative dates because it was based on errors in the geographic and geologic data of the nineteenth century. Newly interpreted geography, geology, and direct AMS 14 C measurements indicate that the Hopewell village, Elevated Circle, and Graded Way predate the construction o…
Patterns of Culture Change in Eastern Siberia During the Pleistocene–holocene Transition
Geochemical, economic, and ethnographic approaches to the evaluation of soil, salinity, and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
Bison Exploitation by Late Fort Ancient Peoples in the Central Ohio River Valley
Recent radiocarbon dating demonstrates that Bison bison was present in the central Ohio River Valley between AD 1450 and 1800. The association of this species with cultural material suggests that bison were exploited as a source of food and raw material by Fort Ancient peoples of the Madisonville phase. Bison sought access to the salt and sulphur spings at Big Bone Lick, Kentucky, making this an important locale for bison exploitation
Recognition of Bituminous Coal Contaminants in Radiocarbon Samples
Bituminous coal, previously suspected as a contaminant in radiocarbon samples, has now been demonstrated to be a source of dating error in archaeological and geological samples. Standard laboratory procedures are inadequate to recognize or remove coal from samples, but techniques for identifying coal particles include paleo-botanical and reflectance analyses, and possibly accelerator dating
Early Paleoindian Land Use, Mobility, and Lithic Exploitation Patterns
This article documents 583 fluted projectile points from seventy-two Indiana counties. While fluted points occur in virtually all microtopographic settings, the highest frequency were recovered from riparian settings or overlooks of those areas. The largest concentrations of these artifacts are located on the terraces of major streams. More than half of the fluted points documented were found in the unglaciated portion of the state along the Ohio…
The Bostrom Site
Recent investigations at the Bostrom site in southwestern Illinois demonstrate that the site was occupied by at least three successive groups of Paleo-Indians: Clovis, Gainey, and Holcombe. Of the artifacts for which lithic raw materials were identified, Clovis tools are manufactured from stone that was procured up to 1500 km from the site. Gainey and Holcombe artifacts, on the other hand, are manufactured from stone whose source areas occur with…
The Archaeology of Mummy Valley, Salts Cave, Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky
In 1875, the desiccated remains of an Early Woodland boy were removed from Mummy Valley in Upper Salts Cave, Kentucky. Recent archaeological surveys in Salts Cave and forensic investigations of the mummy suggest that the boy was mortally wounded while mining cave minerals. Death resulted from an internal hemorrhage and apparently occurred in the cave. After death the boy was placed on the surface of a ledge in an area known as “Mumy” Hall
Clovis Mastic and its Hafting Implications
The Effects of Stone and Technology on Fluted-Point Morphometry
Previous morphometric studies have identified variation in fluted-point thickness data but have seldom considered its cultural or technological sources. New data from western and eastern North America suggest that variation in fluted-point thickness results from variability in lithic raw-material selectivity and bifacial-flaking techniques
Seasonality of Stone Procurement
Early Paleoindian subsistence activities were not restricted to the procurement and processing of food. Likewise, studies of early Paleoindian subsistence cycles should not depend solely upon seasonality data from plant and animal remains. Geographic, geochronologic, geologic, and pedologic data obtained from the Emanon Pond site, an early Paleoindian workshop-habitation in northwestern New York state, are used to reconstruct the seasonality of s…
They Have a Rock That Bleeds
Early Paleoindians mined specular and earthy hematite (henceforth known as Sunrise red ochre) at the Powars II site, Platte County, Wyoming. Sunrise red ochre has a distinctive mineralogy, chemical composition, and bioinclusions in comparison to other sources of red ochre. Artifactual red ochre from the pre-Folsom levels at the Hell Gap site comparesfavorablywith the physical, chemical, and biological properties of Sunrise red ochre. These new da…
Archaeological Paradigms, Provincialism, and Semantics
The Colonization of Eastern Siberia
Geoarchaeology of the Kilmer Site
Kilmer is a multicomponent Paleoindian site located in the Appalachian Uplands of New York State. It is situated on high and low late Pleistocene outwash terraces (T2 and T1). In mountainous areas, these landforms are susceptible to weathering and erosional processes. The paucity of sites in the Appalachian Uplands is likely the result of geologically active landscapes. The occurrence of Paleoindian sites in the mountainous terrain of eastern Nor…
Stone Age Spear and Arrow Points of the Midcontinental and Eastern United States
Sheriden
Sheriden Cave is a deeply buried, stratified, and radiocarbon dated (ca. 11,500 B.P.) late Pleistocene habitation site located in northwestern Wyandot County, Ohio, United States. Artifacts recovered from the cave include a side scraper manufactured from a bifacial thinning flake, a bifacial preform, chert debitage, a carved, incised, and beveled-based osseous point, and burned bone. Most of the toolstones are nonlocal cherts that outcrop between…
The Mill Iron Site . George C. Frison
Patterns of Culture Change in Eastern Siberia During the Pleistocene–holocene Transition
Fluoride Dating of Mastodon Bone from an Early Paleoindian Spring Site
Archaeology of the Pleistocene–holocene Transition in Eastern North America
Variation in the Early Paleoindian Economies of Late Pleistocene Eastern North America
The nature of Early Paleoindian economies in late Pleistocene eastern North America has been extensively debated by archaeologists. To better understand paleoeconomies we need to examine intraregional and interregional diversity in the production, consumption, distribution, and exchange of materials that sustained or reproduced early Paleoindian livelihoods. Coarse-grained comparisons drawn on the composition of flaked-stone tool assemblages from…
The View from Madisonville
Evidence of Early Paleoindian Bone Modification and Use at the Sheriden Cave Site (33WY252), Wyandot County, Ohio
The analysis of osseous (bone, antler, or ivory) beveled shafts or 'rods' has become an important focus in the study of early Paleoindian tool technology. Since 1995 two carved and beveled bone rods have been recovered from Sheriden Cave in northwest Ohio in depositional strata that are radiocarbon dated to between 11,060 and 10,400 radiocarbon years B.P. These strata also contained a small, reworked, Gainey-style fluted point; cut and burned ani…
Archaeological Geology of the Turner Site Complex, Hamilton County, Ohio
For more than 150 years, the age of the Turner site complex has been based on the seriation of artifacts and geometry of the earthworks. Seriation failed to provide meaningful relative dates because it was based on errors in the geographic and geologic data of the nineteenth century. Newly interpreted geography, geology, and direct AMS 14 C measurements indicate that the Hopewell village, Elevated Circle, and Graded Way predate the construction o…
The Mariemont Earthwork
Mariemont is a hilltop Fort Ancient serpentine-shaped earthwork located in Hamilton County, Ohio. High-resolution magnetic susceptibility analysis, ground-truthed with radiocarbon dating, demonstrates that it was built during the Little Ice Age, a cold and dry climatic downturn. Detailed geological and geographic analyses show that the earthwork was a gravity-fed hydraulic structure, which channeled precipitation and surface runoff to the protohi…
Making the Voyageur World
X-ray powder diffraction analysis of Late Holocene reservoir sediments
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