Edward J Knell
Biographic Data
| ID | 179105 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward J Knell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward J |
| FAMILY NAME | Knell |
| SIGNATURE | KNELL E J |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Fullerton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9142-8421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Paleoindian land use at pluvial Lake Mojave
This study creates and preliminarily tests a biotic resource structure and optimal foraging theory inspired land use model for Silver Lake, one of two playa lakes that once formed pluvial Lake Mojave in California’s central Mojave Desert. The land use model predicts that when Silver Lake was a high-rank resource patch, Paleoindians optimally decreased inter-basin mobility as part of a wetland stable strategy (WSS); conversely, when Silver Lake wa…
Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential
The iconic Paleoindian projectile points of the northern portion of the North American Great Plains—Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin, Plainview (Goshen), Hell Gap, Alberta, Scottsbluff, and Eden—span nearly 4,000 radiocarbon years. Here, we apply recent findings from experimental archaeology to a database of 343 Paleoindian points to better understand how well these point types potentially functioned relative to each other in terms of penetration. Giv…
Assessing the Validity of Mojave Desert Lake Mohave and Silver Lake Projectile-Point Types
This study uses univariate and multivariate statistical analyses to assess whether Lake Mohave and Silver Lake projectile points from the Mojave Desert of western North America are statistically discrete, recognizable, and valid types. Univariate analyses run on 400 Lake Mohave and Silver Lake points reveal significant differences in six linear and three angle measures, though overlapping measurements pose difficulties for differentiating the typ…
Allometry of unifacial flake tools from Mojave Desert terminal pleistocene/early holocene sites
This study evaluates the allometry of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene age unifacial flake tools in the northcentral Mojave Desert of California to reveal linkages between landscape knowledge, tool design, and land use. Analyses of 438 unifacial flake tools (all types) show at the population scale that Mojave Desert Paleoindians, like other post-Clovis Paleoindians across North America, possessed good knowledge of the landscape and designed fl…
New Radiocarbon Dates from the Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at the Lamb Spring Site, Douglas County, Colorado
Extant collections, such as those from the Lamb Spring site near Denver, Colorado, provide the opportunity to fine-tune existing chronologies through the application of new techniques. Here we present three newly obtained, high precision AMS radiocarbon dates – 9425 ± 20, 9445 ± 25, and 9470 ± 25 radiocarbon years BP (averaging 9443 radiocarbon years BP) – on bison killed by the site’s Cody complex inhabitants. These new dates are older than the …
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
I must admit that when I first saw “Stones, Bones, and Profiles”, the title immediately caught my attention, but I ultimately decided that the title, while catchy, was not explicit enough to indica
The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at Lamb Spring, Colorado
The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at the Lamb Spring site in Douglas County, Colorado, was reanalyzed to better document it and facilitate comparisons to other Cody kill sites. Cody hunters killed at least 27 bison near an active spring vent between the late fall/early winter and the middle of spring. Besides the nearly 2,000 recovered bison bones are seven heavily resharpened Eden points and fragments, a Cody knife fragment, and two sm…
Evidence for insolation and Pacific forcing of late glacial through Holocene climate in the Central Mojave Desert (Silver Lake, CA)
Silver Lake is the modern terminal playa of the Mojave River in southern California (USA). As a result, it is well located to record both influences from the winter precipitation dominated San Bernardino Mountains – the source of the Mojave River – and from the late summer to early fall North American monsoon at Silver Lake. Here, we present various physical, chemical and biological data from a new radiocarbon-dated, 8.2 m sediment core taken fro…
Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene lithic technological organization around Lake Mojave, California
The surface lithic scatters at two areas around Soda Lake were intensively surveyed and 3133 artifacts were analyzed in the field using four main variables to infer how Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene foragers organized lithic technology around pluvial Lake Mojave, California. Results indicate that early stage bifaces and flake tool blanks were created at a fine-grained volcanic (felsite) quarry/workshop complex in the Soda Mountains survey a…
The three lives of a uniface
Minimum Analytical Nodules and Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Lithic Technological Organization at Hell Gap, Wyoming
This paper uses minimum analytical nodule analysis (MANA) as a tool to evaluate local-scale patterns of lithic technological organization in the Late Paleoindian Cody complex Locality I and Locality V components at the Hell Gap site, Wyoming. The spatially proximate and temporally overlapping loci provide an opportunity to assess how these Paleoindians organized lithic technology while using a core area focused land-use strategy. The technologica…
Linking Bones and Stones
Using lithic and faunal data from 33 Cody complex (10,000–8600 14 C years B.P.) components from the northern Great Plains, this study explores how Paleoindian land use and foraging strategies varied in relation to resource structure at the regional scale. The analysis of regional-scale faunal and lithic data was undertaken to demonstrate how disparate but related datasets must be considered together to develop a more complete understanding of hun…
Blood Protein Residues on Lithic Artifacts from Two Archaeological Sites in the De Long Mountains, Northwestern Alaska
Immunological analysis of blood residues was performed on 25 lithic artifacts from two archaeological sites (DEL-166 and DEL-168) in the De Long Mountains of northwestern Alaska. Blood residues occur on five artifact types: retouched flakes; end scrapers; flake burins; bifaces; and wedge-shaped microblade cores. Fourteen (56%) of the 25 analyzed artifacts react positively to six animal antisera and to human blood. Besides human blood, identified …
The three lives of a uniface
Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential
The iconic Paleoindian projectile points of the northern portion of the North American Great Plains—Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin, Plainview (Goshen), Hell Gap, Alberta, Scottsbluff, and Eden—span nearly 4,000 radiocarbon years. Here, we apply recent findings from experimental archaeology to a database of 343 Paleoindian points to better understand how well these point types potentially functioned relative to each other in terms of penetration. Giv…
Minimum Analytical Nodules and Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Lithic Technological Organization at Hell Gap, Wyoming
This paper uses minimum analytical nodule analysis (MANA) as a tool to evaluate local-scale patterns of lithic technological organization in the Late Paleoindian Cody complex Locality I and Locality V components at the Hell Gap site, Wyoming. The spatially proximate and temporally overlapping loci provide an opportunity to assess how these Paleoindians organized lithic technology while using a core area focused land-use strategy. The technologica…
Linking Bones and Stones
Using lithic and faunal data from 33 Cody complex (10,000–8600 14 C years B.P.) components from the northern Great Plains, this study explores how Paleoindian land use and foraging strategies varied in relation to resource structure at the regional scale. The analysis of regional-scale faunal and lithic data was undertaken to demonstrate how disparate but related datasets must be considered together to develop a more complete understanding of hun…
Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene lithic technological organization around Lake Mojave, California
The surface lithic scatters at two areas around Soda Lake were intensively surveyed and 3133 artifacts were analyzed in the field using four main variables to infer how Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene foragers organized lithic technology around pluvial Lake Mojave, California. Results indicate that early stage bifaces and flake tool blanks were created at a fine-grained volcanic (felsite) quarry/workshop complex in the Soda Mountains survey a…
Allometry of unifacial flake tools from Mojave Desert terminal pleistocene/early holocene sites
This study evaluates the allometry of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene age unifacial flake tools in the northcentral Mojave Desert of California to reveal linkages between landscape knowledge, tool design, and land use. Analyses of 438 unifacial flake tools (all types) show at the population scale that Mojave Desert Paleoindians, like other post-Clovis Paleoindians across North America, possessed good knowledge of the landscape and designed fl…
Blood Protein Residues on Lithic Artifacts from Two Archaeological Sites in the De Long Mountains, Northwestern Alaska
Immunological analysis of blood residues was performed on 25 lithic artifacts from two archaeological sites (DEL-166 and DEL-168) in the De Long Mountains of northwestern Alaska. Blood residues occur on five artifact types: retouched flakes; end scrapers; flake burins; bifaces; and wedge-shaped microblade cores. Fourteen (56%) of the 25 analyzed artifacts react positively to six animal antisera and to human blood. Besides human blood, identified …
Minimum Analytical Nodules and Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Lithic Technological Organization at Hell Gap, Wyoming
This paper uses minimum analytical nodule analysis (MANA) as a tool to evaluate local-scale patterns of lithic technological organization in the Late Paleoindian Cody complex Locality I and Locality V components at the Hell Gap site, Wyoming. The spatially proximate and temporally overlapping loci provide an opportunity to assess how these Paleoindians organized lithic technology while using a core area focused land-use strategy. The technologica…
Linking Bones and Stones
Using lithic and faunal data from 33 Cody complex (10,000–8600 14 C years B.P.) components from the northern Great Plains, this study explores how Paleoindian land use and foraging strategies varied in relation to resource structure at the regional scale. The analysis of regional-scale faunal and lithic data was undertaken to demonstrate how disparate but related datasets must be considered together to develop a more complete understanding of hun…
Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene lithic technological organization around Lake Mojave, California
The surface lithic scatters at two areas around Soda Lake were intensively surveyed and 3133 artifacts were analyzed in the field using four main variables to infer how Terminal Pleistocene–Early Holocene foragers organized lithic technology around pluvial Lake Mojave, California. Results indicate that early stage bifaces and flake tool blanks were created at a fine-grained volcanic (felsite) quarry/workshop complex in the Soda Mountains survey a…
The three lives of a uniface
Evidence for insolation and Pacific forcing of late glacial through Holocene climate in the Central Mojave Desert (Silver Lake, CA)
Silver Lake is the modern terminal playa of the Mojave River in southern California (USA). As a result, it is well located to record both influences from the winter precipitation dominated San Bernardino Mountains – the source of the Mojave River – and from the late summer to early fall North American monsoon at Silver Lake. Here, we present various physical, chemical and biological data from a new radiocarbon-dated, 8.2 m sediment core taken fro…
Stones, Bones, and Profiles
I must admit that when I first saw “Stones, Bones, and Profiles”, the title immediately caught my attention, but I ultimately decided that the title, while catchy, was not explicit enough to indica
The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at Lamb Spring, Colorado
The Late Paleoindian Cody complex component at the Lamb Spring site in Douglas County, Colorado, was reanalyzed to better document it and facilitate comparisons to other Cody kill sites. Cody hunters killed at least 27 bison near an active spring vent between the late fall/early winter and the middle of spring. Besides the nearly 2,000 recovered bison bones are seven heavily resharpened Eden points and fragments, a Cody knife fragment, and two sm…
New Radiocarbon Dates from the Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at the Lamb Spring Site, Douglas County, Colorado
Extant collections, such as those from the Lamb Spring site near Denver, Colorado, provide the opportunity to fine-tune existing chronologies through the application of new techniques. Here we present three newly obtained, high precision AMS radiocarbon dates – 9425 ± 20, 9445 ± 25, and 9470 ± 25 radiocarbon years BP (averaging 9443 radiocarbon years BP) – on bison killed by the site’s Cody complex inhabitants. These new dates are older than the …
Assessing the Validity of Mojave Desert Lake Mohave and Silver Lake Projectile-Point Types
This study uses univariate and multivariate statistical analyses to assess whether Lake Mohave and Silver Lake projectile points from the Mojave Desert of western North America are statistically discrete, recognizable, and valid types. Univariate analyses run on 400 Lake Mohave and Silver Lake points reveal significant differences in six linear and three angle measures, though overlapping measurements pose difficulties for differentiating the typ…
Allometry of unifacial flake tools from Mojave Desert terminal pleistocene/early holocene sites
This study evaluates the allometry of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene age unifacial flake tools in the northcentral Mojave Desert of California to reveal linkages between landscape knowledge, tool design, and land use. Analyses of 438 unifacial flake tools (all types) show at the population scale that Mojave Desert Paleoindians, like other post-Clovis Paleoindians across North America, possessed good knowledge of the landscape and designed fl…
Plains Paleoindian Projectile Point Penetration Potential
The iconic Paleoindian projectile points of the northern portion of the North American Great Plains—Clovis, Folsom, Agate Basin, Plainview (Goshen), Hell Gap, Alberta, Scottsbluff, and Eden—span nearly 4,000 radiocarbon years. Here, we apply recent findings from experimental archaeology to a database of 343 Paleoindian points to better understand how well these point types potentially functioned relative to each other in terms of penetration. Giv…
Paleoindian land use at pluvial Lake Mojave
This study creates and preliminarily tests a biotic resource structure and optimal foraging theory inspired land use model for Silver Lake, one of two playa lakes that once formed pluvial Lake Mojave in California’s central Mojave Desert. The land use model predicts that when Silver Lake was a high-rank resource patch, Paleoindians optimally decreased inter-basin mobility as part of a wetland stable strategy (WSS); conversely, when Silver Lake wa…
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · Geology (8 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (7 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (5 works) · Holocene (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (3 works)