Jeffery A Behm
Biographic Data
| ID | 218292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffery A Behm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffery A |
| FAMILY NAME | Behm |
| SIGNATURE | BEHM J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 207 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
Gc/MS Analysis of Fatty Acids From Ancient Hearth Residues at the Swan Point Archaeological Site
Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is used to analyse soil residues from hearth sites in Swan Point, Alaska. An experimental hearth is also prepared by burning animal bones to study the characteristics of bone fires and the lipid residues that they leave embedded in soil. Hearth soil samples are derivatized with HCl in methanol to convert bound and unbound fatty acids into methyl esters. Concentrations of saturated fatty acid methyl e…
An Examination of the Effects of Slope Wash on Primary Deposits of Chipping Debris
Analysis of the Death Valley site of DEVA 84E-1 demonstrates the ability of sheet wash erosion to selectively remove small size chipping debris from primary deposits, while leaving the larger flakes behind. Such erosive post-depositional alteration of a surface site located in an area of sparse vegetation and subject to high volume, high velocity flash flooding should not be surprising. Baumler's concern that similar postdepositional alteration o…
Flake Concentrations
Identification of archaeological chipping debris concentrations as either flintworking activity areas (primary concentrations) or redeposited dumps (secondary concentrations) is possible through a quick and simple analytical technique. Size grading by sieving through a series of nested screens followed by the calculation of a ratio of flakes in the two smallest screens provides unambiguous criteria for the identification of archaeological concent…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
Flake Concentrations
Identification of archaeological chipping debris concentrations as either flintworking activity areas (primary concentrations) or redeposited dumps (secondary concentrations) is possible through a quick and simple analytical technique. Size grading by sieving through a series of nested screens followed by the calculation of a ratio of flakes in the two smallest screens provides unambiguous criteria for the identification of archaeological concent…
Gc/MS Analysis of Fatty Acids From Ancient Hearth Residues at the Swan Point Archaeological Site
Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is used to analyse soil residues from hearth sites in Swan Point, Alaska. An experimental hearth is also prepared by burning animal bones to study the characteristics of bone fires and the lipid residues that they leave embedded in soil. Hearth soil samples are derivatized with HCl in methanol to convert bound and unbound fatty acids into methyl esters. Concentrations of saturated fatty acid methyl e…
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
An Examination of the Effects of Slope Wash on Primary Deposits of Chipping Debris
Analysis of the Death Valley site of DEVA 84E-1 demonstrates the ability of sheet wash erosion to selectively remove small size chipping debris from primary deposits, while leaving the larger flakes behind. Such erosive post-depositional alteration of a surface site located in an area of sparse vegetation and subject to high volume, high velocity flash flooding should not be surprising. Baumler's concern that similar postdepositional alteration o…
A History of Flint-Knapping Experimentation, 1838-1976 [and Comments and Reply]
The earliest experiments were conducted to discover how to produce chipped stone tools using nonmetallic knapping tools. By 1880, the major perceived problems were solved: ancient stone tools were made by direct stone percussion, later tools might be finished by pressure flaking with an antler tine, and flakes, since they could be duplicated by natural forces, should be accepted as man-made only when found in quantity and made to a pattern. In th…
Stone Tools, Toolkits, and Human Behavior in Prehistory [and Comments and Reply]
Stone artefacts are usually privileged witnesses, and often the sole preserved witnesses, of prehistoric man and his activities. The study of artefacts is ordinarily restricted to typology, i.e., description, classification, and comparison of these artefacts clustered into assemblages with a view to defining industries and, hence, prehistoric cultures. This approach is somewhat limited, as it registers differences or resemblances between the asse…
Flake Concentrations
Identification of archaeological chipping debris concentrations as either flintworking activity areas (primary concentrations) or redeposited dumps (secondary concentrations) is possible through a quick and simple analytical technique. Size grading by sieving through a series of nested screens followed by the calculation of a ratio of flakes in the two smallest screens provides unambiguous criteria for the identification of archaeological concent…
An Examination of the Effects of Slope Wash on Primary Deposits of Chipping Debris
Analysis of the Death Valley site of DEVA 84E-1 demonstrates the ability of sheet wash erosion to selectively remove small size chipping debris from primary deposits, while leaving the larger flakes behind. Such erosive post-depositional alteration of a surface site located in an area of sparse vegetation and subject to high volume, high velocity flash flooding should not be surprising. Baumler's concern that similar postdepositional alteration o…
Gc/MS Analysis of Fatty Acids From Ancient Hearth Residues at the Swan Point Archaeological Site
Gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC/MS) is used to analyse soil residues from hearth sites in Swan Point, Alaska. An experimental hearth is also prepared by burning animal bones to study the characteristics of bone fires and the lipid residues that they leave embedded in soil. Hearth soil samples are derivatized with HCl in methanol to convert bound and unbound fatty acids into methyl esters. Concentrations of saturated fatty acid methyl e…
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Debris (2 works) · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (2 works)