Douglas H Macdonald
Biographic Data
| ID | 102804 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas H Macdonald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas H |
| FAMILY NAME | Macdonald |
| SIGNATURE | MACDONALD D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Montana |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8482-6840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Sacred Traditions and “Art” in Hunter-Gatherer Contexts
Paleoindians of Yellowstone Lake: Interpreting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer land-use in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Over the last decade, numerous Paleoindian sites have been identified at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, North America’s largest, high-elevation natural lake. This study presents results of University of Montana research between 2009 and 2016 at 25 sites that provide information regarding human use of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene. Despite the recovery of Clovis evidence at Yellowstone Lake, Early Paleoin…
Cougar Creek: Quantitative Assessment of Obsidian Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
With more than 15 sources of obsidian and other lithic materials, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho is one of the richest toolstone regions in northwestern North America. This article introduces a quantitative assessment technique to compare attributes of seven Yellowstone obsidians used by Native Americans over at least 11,000 years. The proposed assessment technique is replicable and adaptable to other regions. Th…
Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people have hunted bison and bighorn sheep, fished for cutthroat trout, and gathered bitterroot and camas bulbs here for at least 11,000 years, and twenty-six…
Understanding the Role of Yellowstone Lake in the Prehistory of Interior Northwestern North America
As North America's largest, high-elevation lake, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, played an important role in the lifeways of Great Plains, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountains Native Americans during prehistory. Various hypotheses suggest that the lake was important during the spring for fishing, during the winter for hunting, and/or during warm months for generalized foraging. Because the lake's islands contain archaeological sites, some also have propos…
Fishing Bridge Point (48YE381): A Stratified Prehistoric Site at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming
Excavations at the Fishing Bridge Point site (48YE381) at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming reveal stratified Early Archaic, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Late Prehistoric period occupations. Results of specialized studies such as lithics, X-ray fluorescence, protein residue, pollen, ethnobotanical, and sub-surface imaging contribute to existing information regarding prehistoric human use of high-elevation lake basins within the Greater Yellowstone E…
The Evolution of Folsom Fluting
The emergence and evolution of the Folsom point is analyzed in light of cultural transmission and dual inheritance theories. While the Folsom point was an outstanding techno-functional solution to Late Pleistocene bison hunting of the Great Plains of North America, archaeological data indicate that fluting was an unnecessary high-risk activity that served as much a socio-cultural role as a techno-functional one. In dual inheritance terms, the flu…
Decorrugation, edge detection, and modelling of total field magnetic observations from a historic town site, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Cinnabar, Montana is a historic town site and railroad depot near the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park and was inhabited between 1883 and 1903. Remains of foundations and old photographs help determine the area of the town, but the south and east limits are unknown. We acquired total field magnetic intensity data to help determine the full extent of the town. Randomly distributed ferrous magnetic sources on the surface and typical noise…
With Mica We Mourn: Fort Ancient Mortuary Practices at Clark Rockshelter, Kentucky
Presentation des fouilles realisees en 2005-2006 a Clark Rockshelter dans le Kentucky et des pratiques funeraires qui y sont associees. A noter qu'une forte concentration de mica y a ete retrouvee ainsi que des restes botaniques, fauniques, des amas coquilliers accompagnant la sepulture secondaire de deux individus amerindiens (Fort Ancient): ces incinerations remaniees avec grande fragmentation des restes osseux restants suggerent une ritualisat…
Understanding Decision—Making Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Via the Study of Lithic Technological Organization
Differential use of lithic raw materials by prehistoric hunter-gatherers has become a common theme in lithic technological organization studies over the last forty years. These studies are largely oriented toward economic, technological, and subsistence decisions of prehistoric hunter-gatherers; however, there is great potential in lithic analysis to study the role of social, political, and other non-techno-economic forces in shaping human decisi…
The Role of Lithic Raw Material Availability and Quality in Determining Tool Kit Size, Tool Function, and Degree of Retouch: A Case Study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia
Analysis of lithic artifact data from Skink Rockshelter (44NI445) in central West Virginia indicates that stone quality and availability were important in determining how Native Americans differentially utilized tools at the site. In turn, tool function influenced lithic raw material selection. Although local Kanawha chert was clearly preferred for projectile point and biface manufacture, nonlocal Upper Mercer chert was preferred for flake tool u…
Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation
The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology, or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary pro…
Grief and Burial in the American Southwest: The Role of Evolutionary Theory in the Interpretation of Mortuary Remains
Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the main determinants of burial-good variation. Marxist theorists suggest that mortuary ritual mediates social tension between an egalitarian mindset and an existing social inequality. Evolutionary theory provides…
Modeling Folsom Mobility, Mating Strategies, And Technological Organization In The Northern Plains
Lithic and contemporary forager data facilitate the understanding of northern Plains Folsom mobility, technological organization, and mating strategies. Northern Plains Folsom foragers emphasized local and regional travel, with only occ sional direct acquisition of stone in exotic locales. The infrequency of such movements is reflected in the low percentages of exotic stone in northern Plains Folsom sites. Intercultural and intraculturalforager m…
Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility
Guided by life-history theory, we examine the contexts in which reproductive interests (e.g., attracting and keeping a spouse) shape forager mobility. Using quantitative intercultural and intra-cultural mating distance data, we report significant correlations between mating distance and population density not only among foragers but also among farmers. Further, in all of the cultures for which we could find data males on average traveled consider…
Subsistence, Sex, and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture
Mobility and Raw Material Use at the Hunting Camp Spring Site (35WA96), Blue Mountains, Oregon
Analysis of lithic artifacts from the Hunting Camp Spring site (35WA96) in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon provides insight into the technological organization of late prehistoric populations in the southern Columbia Plateau. Results of debitage and tool analyses suggest that raw material quality and availability, in terms of the stone's proximity to the site area and its relative local abundance, were the prime factors in the productio…
Closure to “Rockfill Dams: The Bersimis Sloping Core Dams”
Rockfill Dams: The Bersimis Sloping Core Dams
The Canadian Shield area of the province of Quebec offers some of the world's most favourable sites for development of hydro-electric power. These hydroelectric projects usually involve the construction of large dams. In the past many of the major dams were constructed of concrete, but now, because of modern development in dam construction and also for economic reasons, greater consideration is being given to earth and rockfill dams. The recently…
Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility
Guided by life-history theory, we examine the contexts in which reproductive interests (e.g., attracting and keeping a spouse) shape forager mobility. Using quantitative intercultural and intra-cultural mating distance data, we report significant correlations between mating distance and population density not only among foragers but also among farmers. Further, in all of the cultures for which we could find data males on average traveled consider…
Subsistence, Sex, and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture
Modeling Folsom Mobility, Mating Strategies, And Technological Organization In The Northern Plains
Lithic and contemporary forager data facilitate the understanding of northern Plains Folsom mobility, technological organization, and mating strategies. Northern Plains Folsom foragers emphasized local and regional travel, with only occ sional direct acquisition of stone in exotic locales. The infrequency of such movements is reflected in the low percentages of exotic stone in northern Plains Folsom sites. Intercultural and intraculturalforager m…
Grief and Burial in the American Southwest: The Role of Evolutionary Theory in the Interpretation of Mortuary Remains
Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the main determinants of burial-good variation. Marxist theorists suggest that mortuary ritual mediates social tension between an egalitarian mindset and an existing social inequality. Evolutionary theory provides…
The Evolution of Folsom Fluting
The emergence and evolution of the Folsom point is analyzed in light of cultural transmission and dual inheritance theories. While the Folsom point was an outstanding techno-functional solution to Late Pleistocene bison hunting of the Great Plains of North America, archaeological data indicate that fluting was an unnecessary high-risk activity that served as much a socio-cultural role as a techno-functional one. In dual inheritance terms, the flu…
Understanding Decision—Making Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Via the Study of Lithic Technological Organization
Differential use of lithic raw materials by prehistoric hunter-gatherers has become a common theme in lithic technological organization studies over the last forty years. These studies are largely oriented toward economic, technological, and subsistence decisions of prehistoric hunter-gatherers; however, there is great potential in lithic analysis to study the role of social, political, and other non-techno-economic forces in shaping human decisi…
Understanding the Role of Yellowstone Lake in the Prehistory of Interior Northwestern North America
As North America's largest, high-elevation lake, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, played an important role in the lifeways of Great Plains, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountains Native Americans during prehistory. Various hypotheses suggest that the lake was important during the spring for fishing, during the winter for hunting, and/or during warm months for generalized foraging. Because the lake's islands contain archaeological sites, some also have propos…
Mobility and Raw Material Use at the Hunting Camp Spring Site (35WA96), Blue Mountains, Oregon
Analysis of lithic artifacts from the Hunting Camp Spring site (35WA96) in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon provides insight into the technological organization of late prehistoric populations in the southern Columbia Plateau. Results of debitage and tool analyses suggest that raw material quality and availability, in terms of the stone's proximity to the site area and its relative local abundance, were the prime factors in the productio…
Fishing Bridge Point (48YE381): A Stratified Prehistoric Site at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming
Excavations at the Fishing Bridge Point site (48YE381) at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming reveal stratified Early Archaic, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Late Prehistoric period occupations. Results of specialized studies such as lithics, X-ray fluorescence, protein residue, pollen, ethnobotanical, and sub-surface imaging contribute to existing information regarding prehistoric human use of high-elevation lake basins within the Greater Yellowstone E…
Paleoindians of Yellowstone Lake: Interpreting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer land-use in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Over the last decade, numerous Paleoindian sites have been identified at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, North America’s largest, high-elevation natural lake. This study presents results of University of Montana research between 2009 and 2016 at 25 sites that provide information regarding human use of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene. Despite the recovery of Clovis evidence at Yellowstone Lake, Early Paleoin…
Cougar Creek: Quantitative Assessment of Obsidian Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
With more than 15 sources of obsidian and other lithic materials, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho is one of the richest toolstone regions in northwestern North America. This article introduces a quantitative assessment technique to compare attributes of seven Yellowstone obsidians used by Native Americans over at least 11,000 years. The proposed assessment technique is replicable and adaptable to other regions. Th…
Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people have hunted bison and bighorn sheep, fished for cutthroat trout, and gathered bitterroot and camas bulbs here for at least 11,000 years, and twenty-six…
Decorrugation, edge detection, and modelling of total field magnetic observations from a historic town site, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Cinnabar, Montana is a historic town site and railroad depot near the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park and was inhabited between 1883 and 1903. Remains of foundations and old photographs help determine the area of the town, but the south and east limits are unknown. We acquired total field magnetic intensity data to help determine the full extent of the town. Randomly distributed ferrous magnetic sources on the surface and typical noise…
Rockfill Dams: The Bersimis Sloping Core Dams
The Canadian Shield area of the province of Quebec offers some of the world's most favourable sites for development of hydro-electric power. These hydroelectric projects usually involve the construction of large dams. In the past many of the major dams were constructed of concrete, but now, because of modern development in dam construction and also for economic reasons, greater consideration is being given to earth and rockfill dams. The recently…
Closure to “Rockfill Dams: The Bersimis Sloping Core Dams”
Mobility and Raw Material Use at the Hunting Camp Spring Site (35WA96), Blue Mountains, Oregon
Analysis of lithic artifacts from the Hunting Camp Spring site (35WA96) in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon provides insight into the technological organization of late prehistoric populations in the southern Columbia Plateau. Results of debitage and tool analyses suggest that raw material quality and availability, in terms of the stone's proximity to the site area and its relative local abundance, were the prime factors in the productio…
Subsistence, Sex, and Cultural Transmission in Folsom Culture
Modeling Folsom Mobility, Mating Strategies, And Technological Organization In The Northern Plains
Lithic and contemporary forager data facilitate the understanding of northern Plains Folsom mobility, technological organization, and mating strategies. Northern Plains Folsom foragers emphasized local and regional travel, with only occ sional direct acquisition of stone in exotic locales. The infrequency of such movements is reflected in the low percentages of exotic stone in northern Plains Folsom sites. Intercultural and intraculturalforager m…
Reproductive Interests and Forager Mobility
Guided by life-history theory, we examine the contexts in which reproductive interests (e.g., attracting and keeping a spouse) shape forager mobility. Using quantitative intercultural and intra-cultural mating distance data, we report significant correlations between mating distance and population density not only among foragers but also among farmers. Further, in all of the cultures for which we could find data males on average traveled consider…
Grief and Burial in the American Southwest: The Role of Evolutionary Theory in the Interpretation of Mortuary Remains
Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the main determinants of burial-good variation. Marxist theorists suggest that mortuary ritual mediates social tension between an egalitarian mindset and an existing social inequality. Evolutionary theory provides…
The Role of Lithic Raw Material Availability and Quality in Determining Tool Kit Size, Tool Function, and Degree of Retouch: A Case Study from Skink Rockshelter (46NI445), West Virginia
Analysis of lithic artifact data from Skink Rockshelter (44NI445) in central West Virginia indicates that stone quality and availability were important in determining how Native Americans differentially utilized tools at the site. In turn, tool function influenced lithic raw material selection. Although local Kanawha chert was clearly preferred for projectile point and biface manufacture, nonlocal Upper Mercer chert was preferred for flake tool u…
Lithic Technology: Measures of Production, Use and Curation
The life history of stone tools is intimately linked to tool production, use and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology, or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints and evolutionary pro…
Decorrugation, edge detection, and modelling of total field magnetic observations from a historic town site, Yellowstone National Park, USA
Cinnabar, Montana is a historic town site and railroad depot near the northern edge of Yellowstone National Park and was inhabited between 1883 and 1903. Remains of foundations and old photographs help determine the area of the town, but the south and east limits are unknown. We acquired total field magnetic intensity data to help determine the full extent of the town. Randomly distributed ferrous magnetic sources on the surface and typical noise…
With Mica We Mourn: Fort Ancient Mortuary Practices at Clark Rockshelter, Kentucky
Presentation des fouilles realisees en 2005-2006 a Clark Rockshelter dans le Kentucky et des pratiques funeraires qui y sont associees. A noter qu'une forte concentration de mica y a ete retrouvee ainsi que des restes botaniques, fauniques, des amas coquilliers accompagnant la sepulture secondaire de deux individus amerindiens (Fort Ancient): ces incinerations remaniees avec grande fragmentation des restes osseux restants suggerent une ritualisat…
Understanding Decision—Making Among Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers Via the Study of Lithic Technological Organization
Differential use of lithic raw materials by prehistoric hunter-gatherers has become a common theme in lithic technological organization studies over the last forty years. These studies are largely oriented toward economic, technological, and subsistence decisions of prehistoric hunter-gatherers; however, there is great potential in lithic analysis to study the role of social, political, and other non-techno-economic forces in shaping human decisi…
The Evolution of Folsom Fluting
The emergence and evolution of the Folsom point is analyzed in light of cultural transmission and dual inheritance theories. While the Folsom point was an outstanding techno-functional solution to Late Pleistocene bison hunting of the Great Plains of North America, archaeological data indicate that fluting was an unnecessary high-risk activity that served as much a socio-cultural role as a techno-functional one. In dual inheritance terms, the flu…
Understanding the Role of Yellowstone Lake in the Prehistory of Interior Northwestern North America
As North America's largest, high-elevation lake, Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, played an important role in the lifeways of Great Plains, Great Basin, and Rocky Mountains Native Americans during prehistory. Various hypotheses suggest that the lake was important during the spring for fishing, during the winter for hunting, and/or during warm months for generalized foraging. Because the lake's islands contain archaeological sites, some also have propos…
Fishing Bridge Point (48YE381): A Stratified Prehistoric Site at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming
Excavations at the Fishing Bridge Point site (48YE381) at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming reveal stratified Early Archaic, Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, and Late Prehistoric period occupations. Results of specialized studies such as lithics, X-ray fluorescence, protein residue, pollen, ethnobotanical, and sub-surface imaging contribute to existing information regarding prehistoric human use of high-elevation lake basins within the Greater Yellowstone E…
Before Yellowstone: Native American Archaeology in the National Park
Since 1872, visitors have flocked to Yellowstone National Park to gaze in awe at its dramatic geysers, stunning mountains, and impressive wildlife. Yet more than a century of archaeological research shows that the wild landscape has a long history of human presence. In fact, Native American people have hunted bison and bighorn sheep, fished for cutthroat trout, and gathered bitterroot and camas bulbs here for at least 11,000 years, and twenty-six…
Paleoindians of Yellowstone Lake: Interpreting Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene hunter-gatherer land-use in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem
Over the last decade, numerous Paleoindian sites have been identified at Yellowstone Lake, Wyoming, North America’s largest, high-elevation natural lake. This study presents results of University of Montana research between 2009 and 2016 at 25 sites that provide information regarding human use of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene. Despite the recovery of Clovis evidence at Yellowstone Lake, Early Paleoin…
Cougar Creek: Quantitative Assessment of Obsidian Use in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
With more than 15 sources of obsidian and other lithic materials, the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho is one of the richest toolstone regions in northwestern North America. This article introduces a quantitative assessment technique to compare attributes of seven Yellowstone obsidians used by Native Americans over at least 11,000 years. The proposed assessment technique is replicable and adaptable to other regions. Th…
Sacred Traditions and “Art” in Hunter-Gatherer Contexts
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