Jack Rossen
Biographic Data
| ID | 107660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jack Rossen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jack |
| FAMILY NAME | Rossen |
| SIGNATURE | ROSSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ithaca College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0179-0756 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Archaeological and Geological Evidence at Monte Verde II, Chile, Supports a Human Occupation at ∼14,500 Years Ago
In recent articles, Surovell et al. (Citation2026a. “A Mid-Holocene Age for Monte Verde Challenges the Timeline of Human Colonization of South America.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288; Surovell, Todd A., César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M. Thompson, and Claudio Latorre. 2026b. “Reply to Waters et al.: Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Redeposition at Monte Verde.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288) and Méndez et al. (Citation2026.…
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA
Evidence of precontact agricultural practices demonstrating how and where crops were grown is often scant because of poor preservation and modern land use practices. As a result, relatively few sites have been identified that document farm fields or garden beds. We document remnants of a ridge and furrow agricultural system found at Angel Mounds, an important regional Mississippian site, in Indiana, USA. Researchers have identified many different…
Field School Archaeology, Activism, and Politics in the Cayuga Homeland of Central New York
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Activist Anthropology with the Haudenosaunee
As participants in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, we explore our experiences as allies and activist anthropologists in a collaborative venture that involved participants from Native nations, academia and local communities. The campaign included local, regional and international events aimed at re-enlivening a 400-year-old treaty espousing mutual respect and balance between Europeans and the Haudenosaunee. The highlight of the symbolic renew…
Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru
Chewing coca in South America began by at least 8000 cal BP: our authors found and identified coca leaves of that date in house floors in the Nanchoc Valley, Peru. There were also pieces of calcite - which is used by chewers to bring out the alkaloids from the leaves. Excavation and chemical analysis at a group of neighbouring sites suggests that specialists were beginning to extract and supply lime or calcite, and by association coca, as a commu…
Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America
The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the pres…
Localization and possible social aggregation in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on the north coast of Perú
Helping the Cayuga Return to Their Land
Bone Cutting, Placement, and Cannibalism: Middle Preceramic Mortuary Patterns of Nanchoc, Northern Peru
Mortuary practices of the Middle Preceramic period (ca. 8500-4000 B.P.) are discussed for the Nanchoc region of the upper Zaña Valley, northern Peru. Careful breaking, cutting, and placement of human bones from adult males during the Las Pircas Phase (8500-6000 B.P.) gave way to more haphazard breakage and discard during the subsequent Tierra Blanca Phase (6000-5000 B.P.). The evidence of cannibalism is considered. Bone breakage, cutting, and pos…
La colonización y el asentamiento del norte del Perú: Innovación, tecnología y adaptación en el valle de Zaña
Se presenta un análisis arqueológico y paleoambiental de los primeros pobladores prehistóricos en el valle de Zaña y las siguientes etapas de desarrollo técnico y económico hacia la vida sedentaria y eventualmente la formación de la base de la civilización andina en la zona desde el Periodo Precerámico Temprano (ca.10.000-7500 a.p) al Periodo Precerámico Medio (ca. 7500-5000 a.p.). Más específicamente, se discuten las culturas de Paiján, Nanchoc,…
The Flote-Tech Flotation Machine: Messiah or Mixed Blessing
In their review of the Flote-Tech machine-assisted flotation system, Hunter and Gassner (1998) depict the machine as nearly perfect and present it as a technical marvel. I attempt to present a more balanced view of the Flote-Tech machine, based on four years of direct experience. Rather than being a perfected machine for flotation recovery of archaeological plant remains, the Flote-Tech is a prototype with important design and use problems. It ca…
Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study
Cultigens in Prehistoric Eastern North America: Changing Paradigms [and Comments and Replies]
Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru
A decade of intermittent archaeological research in the upper Zaña Valley in northern Peru has documented an intensive Middle Preceramic period (ca. 6000-4200 B.C.) occupation in the tropical-forest and thorn-forest ecotone on the western Andean slopes. This research has revealed one stratified nonresidential site (the Cementerio de Nanchoc), characterized by dual earth mounds, and a complex of small, preceramic residential sites in the Nanchoc b…
The Controlled Carbonization and Archaeological Analysis of SE U. S. Wood Charcoals
The Controlled Carbonization and Archaeological Analysis of SE U.S. Wood Charcoals
The study of archaeological plant remains, archaeobotany, is becoming an increasingly important component of archaeological interpretation. Woodcharcoal analysis is an informative aspect of this specialization. The data bases for a wide range of archaeological research problems depend on this type of analysis. No studies, however, have assessed the taphonomy of different carbonized wood species, and no methodologies or general principles have eme…
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley: The Hurricane Branch Site (40JK27), Jackson County, Tennessee
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
Cultigens in Prehistoric Eastern North America: Changing Paradigms [and Comments and Replies]
Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru
Chewing coca in South America began by at least 8000 cal BP: our authors found and identified coca leaves of that date in house floors in the Nanchoc Valley, Peru. There were also pieces of calcite - which is used by chewers to bring out the alkaloids from the leaves. Excavation and chemical analysis at a group of neighbouring sites suggests that specialists were beginning to extract and supply lime or calcite, and by association coca, as a commu…
Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study
Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru
A decade of intermittent archaeological research in the upper Zaña Valley in northern Peru has documented an intensive Middle Preceramic period (ca. 6000-4200 B.C.) occupation in the tropical-forest and thorn-forest ecotone on the western Andean slopes. This research has revealed one stratified nonresidential site (the Cementerio de Nanchoc), characterized by dual earth mounds, and a complex of small, preceramic residential sites in the Nanchoc b…
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA
Evidence of precontact agricultural practices demonstrating how and where crops were grown is often scant because of poor preservation and modern land use practices. As a result, relatively few sites have been identified that document farm fields or garden beds. We document remnants of a ridge and furrow agricultural system found at Angel Mounds, an important regional Mississippian site, in Indiana, USA. Researchers have identified many different…
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Activist Anthropology with the Haudenosaunee
As participants in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, we explore our experiences as allies and activist anthropologists in a collaborative venture that involved participants from Native nations, academia and local communities. The campaign included local, regional and international events aimed at re-enlivening a 400-year-old treaty espousing mutual respect and balance between Europeans and the Haudenosaunee. The highlight of the symbolic renew…
Helping the Cayuga Return to Their Land
The Flote-Tech Flotation Machine: Messiah or Mixed Blessing
In their review of the Flote-Tech machine-assisted flotation system, Hunter and Gassner (1998) depict the machine as nearly perfect and present it as a technical marvel. I attempt to present a more balanced view of the Flote-Tech machine, based on four years of direct experience. Rather than being a perfected machine for flotation recovery of archaeological plant remains, the Flote-Tech is a prototype with important design and use problems. It ca…
The Controlled Carbonization and Archaeological Analysis of SE U.S. Wood Charcoals
The study of archaeological plant remains, archaeobotany, is becoming an increasingly important component of archaeological interpretation. Woodcharcoal analysis is an informative aspect of this specialization. The data bases for a wide range of archaeological research problems depend on this type of analysis. No studies, however, have assessed the taphonomy of different carbonized wood species, and no methodologies or general principles have eme…
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley: The Hurricane Branch Site (40JK27), Jackson County, Tennessee
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
Archaeological Investigations into the Prehistory of the Middle Cumberland River Valley: The Hurricane Branch Site (40JK27), Jackson County, Tennessee
The Hurricane Branch Site may be characterized as a multi-component site which has been sporadically visited by Archaic cultural groups, but most intensively occupied in the Middle Woodland and briefly in the late prehistoric period. At this site, the Archaic affiliations tend to be dominated by southerly influences. Woodland affiliations continue to be southerly in nature with strong influences from the McFarland/Owl Hollow complexes of the Uppe…
The Controlled Carbonization and Archaeological Analysis of SE U. S. Wood Charcoals
The Controlled Carbonization and Archaeological Analysis of SE U.S. Wood Charcoals
The study of archaeological plant remains, archaeobotany, is becoming an increasingly important component of archaeological interpretation. Woodcharcoal analysis is an informative aspect of this specialization. The data bases for a wide range of archaeological research problems depend on this type of analysis. No studies, however, have assessed the taphonomy of different carbonized wood species, and no methodologies or general principles have eme…
Middle Preceramic Public and Residential Sites on the Forested Slope of the Western Andes, Northern Peru
A decade of intermittent archaeological research in the upper Zaña Valley in northern Peru has documented an intensive Middle Preceramic period (ca. 6000-4200 B.C.) occupation in the tropical-forest and thorn-forest ecotone on the western Andean slopes. This research has revealed one stratified nonresidential site (the Cementerio de Nanchoc), characterized by dual earth mounds, and a complex of small, preceramic residential sites in the Nanchoc b…
Cultigens in Prehistoric Eastern North America: Changing Paradigms [and Comments and Replies]
Ancient Cultigens or Modern Intrusions: Evaluating Plant Remains in an Andean Case Study
La colonización y el asentamiento del norte del Perú: Innovación, tecnología y adaptación en el valle de Zaña
Se presenta un análisis arqueológico y paleoambiental de los primeros pobladores prehistóricos en el valle de Zaña y las siguientes etapas de desarrollo técnico y económico hacia la vida sedentaria y eventualmente la formación de la base de la civilización andina en la zona desde el Periodo Precerámico Temprano (ca.10.000-7500 a.p) al Periodo Precerámico Medio (ca. 7500-5000 a.p.). Más específicamente, se discuten las culturas de Paiján, Nanchoc,…
The Flote-Tech Flotation Machine: Messiah or Mixed Blessing
In their review of the Flote-Tech machine-assisted flotation system, Hunter and Gassner (1998) depict the machine as nearly perfect and present it as a technical marvel. I attempt to present a more balanced view of the Flote-Tech machine, based on four years of direct experience. Rather than being a perfected machine for flotation recovery of archaeological plant remains, the Flote-Tech is a prototype with important design and use problems. It ca…
Helping the Cayuga Return to Their Land
Bone Cutting, Placement, and Cannibalism: Middle Preceramic Mortuary Patterns of Nanchoc, Northern Peru
Mortuary practices of the Middle Preceramic period (ca. 8500-4000 B.P.) are discussed for the Nanchoc region of the upper Zaña Valley, northern Peru. Careful breaking, cutting, and placement of human bones from adult males during the Las Pircas Phase (8500-6000 B.P.) gave way to more haphazard breakage and discard during the subsequent Tierra Blanca Phase (6000-5000 B.P.). The evidence of cannibalism is considered. Bone breakage, cutting, and pos…
Localization and possible social aggregation in the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene on the north coast of Perú
Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America
The identification of human artifacts at the early archaeological site of Monte Verde in southern Chile has raised questions of when and how people reached the tip of South America without leaving much other evidence in the New World. Remains of nine species of marine algae were recovered from hearths and other features at Monte Verde II, an upper occupational layer, and were directly dated between 14,220 and 13,980 calendar years before the pres…
Early Holocene coca chewing in northern Peru
Chewing coca in South America began by at least 8000 cal BP: our authors found and identified coca leaves of that date in house floors in the Nanchoc Valley, Peru. There were also pieces of calcite - which is used by chewers to bring out the alkaloids from the leaves. Excavation and chemical analysis at a group of neighbouring sites suggests that specialists were beginning to extract and supply lime or calcite, and by association coca, as a commu…
Activist Anthropology with the Haudenosaunee
As participants in the Two Row Wampum Renewal Campaign, we explore our experiences as allies and activist anthropologists in a collaborative venture that involved participants from Native nations, academia and local communities. The campaign included local, regional and international events aimed at re-enlivening a 400-year-old treaty espousing mutual respect and balance between Europeans and the Haudenosaunee. The highlight of the symbolic renew…
Field School Archaeology, Activism, and Politics in the Cayuga Homeland of Central New York
Correcting Fiedel, Once Again: Monte Verde and the Peopling of South America
Corrections are made to Stuart Fiedel’s (2022) recent errors and misrepresentations related to the late Pleistocene sites of Monte Verde and Huaca Prieta and to South American Fishtail projectile points
Furrows Without Ridges: Evidence for an Agricultural Field at Angel Mounds (12Vg1), Southwestern Indiana, USA
Evidence of precontact agricultural practices demonstrating how and where crops were grown is often scant because of poor preservation and modern land use practices. As a result, relatively few sites have been identified that document farm fields or garden beds. We document remnants of a ridge and furrow agricultural system found at Angel Mounds, an important regional Mississippian site, in Indiana, USA. Researchers have identified many different…
Archaeological and Geological Evidence at Monte Verde II, Chile, Supports a Human Occupation at ∼14,500 Years Ago
In recent articles, Surovell et al. (Citation2026a. “A Mid-Holocene Age for Monte Verde Challenges the Timeline of Human Colonization of South America.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288; Surovell, Todd A., César Méndez, Juan-Luis García, Christopher Lüthgens, Jay M. Thompson, and Claudio Latorre. 2026b. “Reply to Waters et al.: Stratigraphy, Chronology, and Redeposition at Monte Verde.” Science 391 (6791): 1283–1288) and Méndez et al. (Citation2026.…
Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (13 works) · Geography (13 works) · Geology (7 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Biology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (4 works)