R Michael Stewart
Biographic Data
| ID | 216515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Michael Stewart |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Stewart |
| SIGNATURE | STEWART R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1301-6365 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Beyond the Three Sisters Additional Botanical Remains From Native American sites in the Upper Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
Botanical remains from dated Native American archeological contexts in the greater Upper Delaware Valley region are cataloged. This foundational chronology is necessary for future research related to paleoenvironments, human management of the environment, and the transition to a mixed farming, gathering and hunting subsistence economy. The chronologies of select botanicals and their relative importance for understanding Native American lifeways a…
Ancient Ponds, Marl Deposits, and Native American Archaeology in the Ridge and Valley Province of Maryland and Pennsylvania
Ponds of early to middle Holocene age are identified in the Ridge and Valley Province of Maryland and Pennsylvania through the occurrence of marl deposits associated with the floodplains of low order streams. A 2-sigma calibrated radiocarbon date indicates that marl formation began no later than 7812–7326 BC. The ponds and associated wetlands are one focus of native settlement movements in the region. Excavations and borings into marl, marl-relat…
Misadventure in Archaeology
Carolyn Dillian and Charles Bello have provided a very readable, informative, and often entertaining volume on the life and archaeological endeavors of Charles Conrad Abbott. Trained as a medical doctor but rarely practiced, Abbott eked out a living from the produce of a family farm, his writings on nature and archaeological subjects, and various appointments with museums. He was a notable figure, notorious in the view of some, in the nineteenth-…
Broadening perspectives on regional quarry-related studies
Any productive or technological activity takes place in a social context and is embedded in a history of native practices, perceptions, and use of multiple landscapes. This paper explores topics that supplement and build upon technological and cultural historical approaches to quarry research. Briefly considered are: quarries as common ground and loci of group interaction; a taskscape/landscape approach to quarry selection and history of use; col…
The King’s Jasper Quarry, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
The King’s Quarry site (36LH2), located in the Reading Prong region of eastern Pennsylvania, is one of six remaining jasper quarries mapped by the late James Hatch and reported in 1994. Several archaeological investigations were conducted there in preparation for a housing development. These investigations included controlled surface collections, hand excavated test units, and extensive mechanical investigations of mining pits. Pre-Contact era qu…
The millennia-long use history of triangular bifaces
Relatively small, triangular bifaces often considered to be projectile points have a demonstrable use history that includes the Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Early Woodland, late Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Contact periods of regional archaeology. Radiocarbon dates and other data are used to document this extensive history using the Upper Delaware Valley of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York as a case study. Observed trends are evalua…
Comparison of GPS units and mobile Apple GPS capabilities in an urban landscape
The research tests the accuracy of two consumer grade GPS devices and two GPS-enabled Apple i-devices within an urban landscape. Data collection is an integral component to many GIS mapping projects, specifically within a community-based GIS mapping project. Access to reliable and spatially accurate data is key to the success of GIS mapping projects that require data collection. The relative low cost and availability of consumer grade GPS units a…
Estimating fluxes in anthropogenic lead using alluvial soil mass-balance geochemistry, geochronology and archaeology in eastern USA
Using event stratigraphy to map the Anthropocene - An example from the historic coal mining region in eastern Pennsylvania, USA
Community strategies to improve flood risk communication in the Red River Basin, Manitoba, Canada
More than a decade after the 1997 Red River Flood, vulnerability to future flooding exists due to a lack of risk communication. This study identifies risk communication gaps and discusses the creation of strategies to enhance information-sharing, bottom-up activity and partnership development. The objectives were achieved using mixed methods, including interviews, a floodplain-wide survey, and a decision-makers' risk management workshop. The resu…
Artisan Choices and Technology in Native American Pottery Production
Clay sources of potential use to Indian potters in the Middle and Lower Delaware Valley of the Middle Atlantic Region (eastern United States) are extensive and varied. Single massive exposures often contain clays of variable colors, although all seem workable, and laboratory experiments show that upon firing, color differences between these clays are discernible. Evidence from Late Woodland (post A.D. 800) archaeological sites in the valley show …
Geoarchaeology of landscapes in the glaciated Northeast
Lithic Technology in the Middle Potomac River Valley of Maryland and Virginia. William Jack Hranicky
Lithic Procurement and Paleo-Indian Settlement Patterns on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain
Paleo-Indian settlement patterns and differential tool use on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain can be related to patterns of lithic resource distribution. In areas where cryptocrystalline lithic resources are concentrated in a few locales, a cyclical system oriented toward specific sources is seen. In areas where lithic resources are more numerous and dispersed, a serial system utilizing various non-specific outcrops or cobble beds is noted. The…
Soils and the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Abbott Farm
Soils studies generated during recent archaeological investigations at the Abbott Farm Site Complex in New Jersey have partially resolved many of the stratigraphic problems and inconsistencies inherent in the earlier landmark work of Dorothy Cross, especially as concerns her excavations on the Abbott Farm “bluff.” The interaction of wind blown sediments with on-site erosion and redeposition of soils are viewed as the natural processes affecting s…
Gentlemen Merchants
Winston S. Churchill
"Winston S. Churchill: Youth 1874-1900, with Companion Volumes 1 and 2, by Randolph S. Churchill." Canadian Journal of History, 7(2), pp. 201–202
Lithic Procurement and Paleo-Indian Settlement Patterns on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain
Paleo-Indian settlement patterns and differential tool use on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain can be related to patterns of lithic resource distribution. In areas where cryptocrystalline lithic resources are concentrated in a few locales, a cyclical system oriented toward specific sources is seen. In areas where lithic resources are more numerous and dispersed, a serial system utilizing various non-specific outcrops or cobble beds is noted. The…
Soils and the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Abbott Farm
Soils studies generated during recent archaeological investigations at the Abbott Farm Site Complex in New Jersey have partially resolved many of the stratigraphic problems and inconsistencies inherent in the earlier landmark work of Dorothy Cross, especially as concerns her excavations on the Abbott Farm “bluff.” The interaction of wind blown sediments with on-site erosion and redeposition of soils are viewed as the natural processes affecting s…
Community strategies to improve flood risk communication in the Red River Basin, Manitoba, Canada
More than a decade after the 1997 Red River Flood, vulnerability to future flooding exists due to a lack of risk communication. This study identifies risk communication gaps and discusses the creation of strategies to enhance information-sharing, bottom-up activity and partnership development. The objectives were achieved using mixed methods, including interviews, a floodplain-wide survey, and a decision-makers' risk management workshop. The resu…
The King’s Jasper Quarry, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
The King’s Quarry site (36LH2), located in the Reading Prong region of eastern Pennsylvania, is one of six remaining jasper quarries mapped by the late James Hatch and reported in 1994. Several archaeological investigations were conducted there in preparation for a housing development. These investigations included controlled surface collections, hand excavated test units, and extensive mechanical investigations of mining pits. Pre-Contact era qu…
The millennia-long use history of triangular bifaces
Relatively small, triangular bifaces often considered to be projectile points have a demonstrable use history that includes the Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Early Woodland, late Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Contact periods of regional archaeology. Radiocarbon dates and other data are used to document this extensive history using the Upper Delaware Valley of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York as a case study. Observed trends are evalua…
Comparison of GPS units and mobile Apple GPS capabilities in an urban landscape
The research tests the accuracy of two consumer grade GPS devices and two GPS-enabled Apple i-devices within an urban landscape. Data collection is an integral component to many GIS mapping projects, specifically within a community-based GIS mapping project. Access to reliable and spatially accurate data is key to the success of GIS mapping projects that require data collection. The relative low cost and availability of consumer grade GPS units a…
Estimating fluxes in anthropogenic lead using alluvial soil mass-balance geochemistry, geochronology and archaeology in eastern USA
Using event stratigraphy to map the Anthropocene - An example from the historic coal mining region in eastern Pennsylvania, USA
Artisan Choices and Technology in Native American Pottery Production
Clay sources of potential use to Indian potters in the Middle and Lower Delaware Valley of the Middle Atlantic Region (eastern United States) are extensive and varied. Single massive exposures often contain clays of variable colors, although all seem workable, and laboratory experiments show that upon firing, color differences between these clays are discernible. Evidence from Late Woodland (post A.D. 800) archaeological sites in the valley show …
Winston S. Churchill
"Winston S. Churchill: Youth 1874-1900, with Companion Volumes 1 and 2, by Randolph S. Churchill." Canadian Journal of History, 7(2), pp. 201–202
Gentlemen Merchants
Soils and the Prehistoric Archaeology of the Abbott Farm
Soils studies generated during recent archaeological investigations at the Abbott Farm Site Complex in New Jersey have partially resolved many of the stratigraphic problems and inconsistencies inherent in the earlier landmark work of Dorothy Cross, especially as concerns her excavations on the Abbott Farm “bluff.” The interaction of wind blown sediments with on-site erosion and redeposition of soils are viewed as the natural processes affecting s…
Lithic Procurement and Paleo-Indian Settlement Patterns on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain
Paleo-Indian settlement patterns and differential tool use on the Middle Atlantic Coastal Plain can be related to patterns of lithic resource distribution. In areas where cryptocrystalline lithic resources are concentrated in a few locales, a cyclical system oriented toward specific sources is seen. In areas where lithic resources are more numerous and dispersed, a serial system utilizing various non-specific outcrops or cobble beds is noted. The…
Lithic Technology in the Middle Potomac River Valley of Maryland and Virginia. William Jack Hranicky
Geoarchaeology of landscapes in the glaciated Northeast
Artisan Choices and Technology in Native American Pottery Production
Clay sources of potential use to Indian potters in the Middle and Lower Delaware Valley of the Middle Atlantic Region (eastern United States) are extensive and varied. Single massive exposures often contain clays of variable colors, although all seem workable, and laboratory experiments show that upon firing, color differences between these clays are discernible. Evidence from Late Woodland (post A.D. 800) archaeological sites in the valley show …
Community strategies to improve flood risk communication in the Red River Basin, Manitoba, Canada
More than a decade after the 1997 Red River Flood, vulnerability to future flooding exists due to a lack of risk communication. This study identifies risk communication gaps and discusses the creation of strategies to enhance information-sharing, bottom-up activity and partnership development. The objectives were achieved using mixed methods, including interviews, a floodplain-wide survey, and a decision-makers' risk management workshop. The resu…
Using event stratigraphy to map the Anthropocene - An example from the historic coal mining region in eastern Pennsylvania, USA
Comparison of GPS units and mobile Apple GPS capabilities in an urban landscape
The research tests the accuracy of two consumer grade GPS devices and two GPS-enabled Apple i-devices within an urban landscape. Data collection is an integral component to many GIS mapping projects, specifically within a community-based GIS mapping project. Access to reliable and spatially accurate data is key to the success of GIS mapping projects that require data collection. The relative low cost and availability of consumer grade GPS units a…
Estimating fluxes in anthropogenic lead using alluvial soil mass-balance geochemistry, geochronology and archaeology in eastern USA
The millennia-long use history of triangular bifaces
Relatively small, triangular bifaces often considered to be projectile points have a demonstrable use history that includes the Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Early Woodland, late Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Contact periods of regional archaeology. Radiocarbon dates and other data are used to document this extensive history using the Upper Delaware Valley of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York as a case study. Observed trends are evalua…
Broadening perspectives on regional quarry-related studies
Any productive or technological activity takes place in a social context and is embedded in a history of native practices, perceptions, and use of multiple landscapes. This paper explores topics that supplement and build upon technological and cultural historical approaches to quarry research. Briefly considered are: quarries as common ground and loci of group interaction; a taskscape/landscape approach to quarry selection and history of use; col…
The King’s Jasper Quarry, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania
The King’s Quarry site (36LH2), located in the Reading Prong region of eastern Pennsylvania, is one of six remaining jasper quarries mapped by the late James Hatch and reported in 1994. Several archaeological investigations were conducted there in preparation for a housing development. These investigations included controlled surface collections, hand excavated test units, and extensive mechanical investigations of mining pits. Pre-Contact era qu…
Misadventure in Archaeology
Carolyn Dillian and Charles Bello have provided a very readable, informative, and often entertaining volume on the life and archaeological endeavors of Charles Conrad Abbott. Trained as a medical doctor but rarely practiced, Abbott eked out a living from the produce of a family farm, his writings on nature and archaeological subjects, and various appointments with museums. He was a notable figure, notorious in the view of some, in the nineteenth-…
Ancient Ponds, Marl Deposits, and Native American Archaeology in the Ridge and Valley Province of Maryland and Pennsylvania
Ponds of early to middle Holocene age are identified in the Ridge and Valley Province of Maryland and Pennsylvania through the occurrence of marl deposits associated with the floodplains of low order streams. A 2-sigma calibrated radiocarbon date indicates that marl formation began no later than 7812–7326 BC. The ponds and associated wetlands are one focus of native settlement movements in the region. Excavations and borings into marl, marl-relat…
Beyond the Three Sisters Additional Botanical Remains From Native American sites in the Upper Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
Botanical remains from dated Native American archeological contexts in the greater Upper Delaware Valley region are cataloged. This foundational chronology is necessary for future research related to paleoenvironments, human management of the environment, and the transition to a mixed farming, gathering and hunting subsistence economy. The chronologies of select botanicals and their relative importance for understanding Native American lifeways a…
Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (12 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Geology (8 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (6 works) · History (6 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Geomorphology (4 works) · Paleontology (4 works)