Jesse A M Ballenger
Biographic Data
| ID | 135710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jesse A M Ballenger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jesse A M |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballenger |
| SIGNATURE | BALLENGER J A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Non-agricultural Recurrence, Mobility, Adaptation, and Groundwater Variations on the Lower Bajada , Sonoran Desert, USA
The construction of a solar-power-array on Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, prompted the archaeological investigation of one of the most completely excavated Archaic period sites in the Sonoran Desert. Beginning with the Middle Archaic period and continuing to the early Historic period, people visited this location to gather and process wild plants, particularly mesquite. Despite the long occupational history, the plant-processing tools and techniqu…
The Earliest People in the Southwest
Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in …
Terminal Pleistocene Paleoindian Ecology and Demography
Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
Studies of hunter-gatherer sociopolitical organization consistently exclude terrestrial big-game hunters-pedestrian bison hunters, in particular-from discussions of emerging complexity. To an important extent, this exclusion stems both from the ethology of bison and its consequences for mobile hunters and from the character of their archaeological record, which lacks conventional indicators of organizational complexity such as high-status burials…
Temporal frequency distributions of alluvium in the American Southwest
Evidence for Younger Dryas global climate oscillation and human response in the American Southwest
Biface Reduction and the Measurement of Dalton Curation
Stone tools were reduced during use, with implications both for classification and curation rates. Ballenger's 'expended utility' (EU) is a continuous reduction measure devised for Dalton bifaces, described by its mean but also its distribution among specimens. We validate EU as a reduction measure by reference to experimental and contextual controls. We compare EU between the 'special context' Dalton assemblages Sloan and Hawkins in Arkansas and…
Late Paleoindian Land Use In The Oklahoma Panhandle
Late to terminal Paleoindian populations are well represented in surface collections from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Themost prominent complexes are Plainview and Frederick-Allen. These groups ‘ remains from Goff Creek and the Nall site arecompared in terms of raw material use, tool maintenance, and breakage patterns. This information is presented within a framework of early Holocene land use and changing environmental conditions in the region. Plai…
The Southern Plains Craft Lithic Cache
A cache recovered from the Pease River area in northern Texas illustrates the potential and limitations of cache analyses geared towards finding “the individual in prehistory.” Reassembly of the implements into their original core groups demonstrates a single flintknapper’s range of variability. Examination of metric attributes and use wear separates the different behaviors that are reflected in the cached implements. Comparison to the Gibson lit…
Biface Reduction and the Measurement of Dalton Curation
Stone tools were reduced during use, with implications both for classification and curation rates. Ballenger's 'expended utility' (EU) is a continuous reduction measure devised for Dalton bifaces, described by its mean but also its distribution among specimens. We validate EU as a reduction measure by reference to experimental and contextual controls. We compare EU between the 'special context' Dalton assemblages Sloan and Hawkins in Arkansas and…
Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
Studies of hunter-gatherer sociopolitical organization consistently exclude terrestrial big-game hunters-pedestrian bison hunters, in particular-from discussions of emerging complexity. To an important extent, this exclusion stems both from the ethology of bison and its consequences for mobile hunters and from the character of their archaeological record, which lacks conventional indicators of organizational complexity such as high-status burials…
Evidence for Younger Dryas global climate oscillation and human response in the American Southwest
Temporal frequency distributions of alluvium in the American Southwest
Late Paleoindian Land Use In The Oklahoma Panhandle
Late to terminal Paleoindian populations are well represented in surface collections from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Themost prominent complexes are Plainview and Frederick-Allen. These groups ‘ remains from Goff Creek and the Nall site arecompared in terms of raw material use, tool maintenance, and breakage patterns. This information is presented within a framework of early Holocene land use and changing environmental conditions in the region. Plai…
The Southern Plains Craft Lithic Cache
A cache recovered from the Pease River area in northern Texas illustrates the potential and limitations of cache analyses geared towards finding “the individual in prehistory.” Reassembly of the implements into their original core groups demonstrates a single flintknapper’s range of variability. Examination of metric attributes and use wear separates the different behaviors that are reflected in the cached implements. Comparison to the Gibson lit…
The Southern Plains Craft Lithic Cache
A cache recovered from the Pease River area in northern Texas illustrates the potential and limitations of cache analyses geared towards finding “the individual in prehistory.” Reassembly of the implements into their original core groups demonstrates a single flintknapper’s range of variability. Examination of metric attributes and use wear separates the different behaviors that are reflected in the cached implements. Comparison to the Gibson lit…
Late Paleoindian Land Use In The Oklahoma Panhandle
Late to terminal Paleoindian populations are well represented in surface collections from the Oklahoma Panhandle. Themost prominent complexes are Plainview and Frederick-Allen. These groups ‘ remains from Goff Creek and the Nall site arecompared in terms of raw material use, tool maintenance, and breakage patterns. This information is presented within a framework of early Holocene land use and changing environmental conditions in the region. Plai…
Biface Reduction and the Measurement of Dalton Curation
Stone tools were reduced during use, with implications both for classification and curation rates. Ballenger's 'expended utility' (EU) is a continuous reduction measure devised for Dalton bifaces, described by its mean but also its distribution among specimens. We validate EU as a reduction measure by reference to experimental and contextual controls. We compare EU between the 'special context' Dalton assemblages Sloan and Hawkins in Arkansas and…
Temporal frequency distributions of alluvium in the American Southwest
Evidence for Younger Dryas global climate oscillation and human response in the American Southwest
Landscape Engineering and Organizational Complexity among Late Prehistoric Bison Hunters of the Northwestern Plains
Studies of hunter-gatherer sociopolitical organization consistently exclude terrestrial big-game hunters-pedestrian bison hunters, in particular-from discussions of emerging complexity. To an important extent, this exclusion stems both from the ethology of bison and its consequences for mobile hunters and from the character of their archaeological record, which lacks conventional indicators of organizational complexity such as high-status burials…
Terminal Pleistocene Paleoindian Ecology and Demography
The Earliest People in the Southwest
Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in …
Non-agricultural Recurrence, Mobility, Adaptation, and Groundwater Variations on the Lower Bajada , Sonoran Desert, USA
The construction of a solar-power-array on Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, prompted the archaeological investigation of one of the most completely excavated Archaic period sites in the Sonoran Desert. Beginning with the Middle Archaic period and continuing to the early Historic period, people visited this location to gather and process wild plants, particularly mesquite. Despite the long occupational history, the plant-processing tools and techniqu…
Archaeology (9 works) · Geography (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Geology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Geology (4 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (4 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (3 works) · Archaeological record (2 works)