Michael J Moratto
Biographic Data
| ID | 219049 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Moratto |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Moratto |
| SIGNATURE | MORATTO M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3355-6588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dennis Paul McDougall (1958–2023)
News and Notes
News and Notes
Further Thoughts on the Age of the Sylwester Clovis Point
We are indebted to C. Vance Haynes Jr for his careful reading of our 2017 report and for proposing alternative explanations for our field observations. In response, we consider each of the alternatives, present additional data, and find that our main conclusion – namely that some Clovis points in California may be of early Holocene age – does not require emendation in light of current knowledge
Edward Paul (“Ed”) Von der Porten (1933–2018)
Ed Von der Porten. Photograph courtesy of the Von der Porten family.When Edward Von der Porten died of complications following surgery in San Francisco on April 9, 2018, we lost a founding member o
Fluted and Basally Thinned Concave-Base Points of Obsidian in the Borden Collection from Inyo County, Alta California
This article describes, classifies, and provides the calculated ages of 14 basally thinned and fluted points of obsidian in the Borden collection from Rose Valley in southern Inyo County, California. With the exception of one item of Fish Springs obsidian, the specimens are all made of glass from geologic subsources in the Coso Volcanic Field. Typologically, the fragmentary and reworked artifacts appear to represent Clovis, or perhaps Clovis-deri…
A Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Record and Fluted Point from Twain Harte, California
Although more than 500 Clovis points have been found at no fewer than 60 locations in California, the age of these points remains problematic. Here we report stratified deposits more than 3 meters deep at a site in the central Sierra Nevada from which a Clovis point was recovered in 1969. Five radiocarbon (14C) dates provide temporal control for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene strata at the site, including the sediments in which the point…
News and Notes
News and Notes
Why is the SCA? Perspectives from the Origin Years
A Pre-Columbian Rubber Ball from the Central Sierra Nevada, Alta California
This brief note calls attention to the previously unreported discovery of a prehistoric rubber ball, apparently of Mesoamerican origin, at a high-elevation site in the central Sierra Nevada, California
California archaeology
California Archaeology
California archaeology
Ethnology
Significance in Archaeology
Significance of archaeological materials should be gauged by multiple criteria, especially when the management of the resources requires decisions. Legal, scientific, ethnic, public, monetary, and managerial aspects of significance are all usable standards by which archaeological phenomena should be measured
California Archaeology
Significance in Archaeology
Significance of archaeological materials should be gauged by multiple criteria, especially when the management of the resources requires decisions. Legal, scientific, ethnic, public, monetary, and managerial aspects of significance are all usable standards by which archaeological phenomena should be measured
Why is the SCA? Perspectives from the Origin Years
A Pre-Columbian Rubber Ball from the Central Sierra Nevada, Alta California
This brief note calls attention to the previously unreported discovery of a prehistoric rubber ball, apparently of Mesoamerican origin, at a high-elevation site in the central Sierra Nevada, California
Significance in Archaeology
Significance of archaeological materials should be gauged by multiple criteria, especially when the management of the resources requires decisions. Legal, scientific, ethnic, public, monetary, and managerial aspects of significance are all usable standards by which archaeological phenomena should be measured
Ethnology
California archaeology
California Archaeology
California archaeology
A Pre-Columbian Rubber Ball from the Central Sierra Nevada, Alta California
This brief note calls attention to the previously unreported discovery of a prehistoric rubber ball, apparently of Mesoamerican origin, at a high-elevation site in the central Sierra Nevada, California
News and Notes
Why is the SCA? Perspectives from the Origin Years
A Terminal Pleistocene/Early Holocene Environmental Record and Fluted Point from Twain Harte, California
Although more than 500 Clovis points have been found at no fewer than 60 locations in California, the age of these points remains problematic. Here we report stratified deposits more than 3 meters deep at a site in the central Sierra Nevada from which a Clovis point was recovered in 1969. Five radiocarbon (14C) dates provide temporal control for terminal Pleistocene and early Holocene strata at the site, including the sediments in which the point…
News and Notes
Further Thoughts on the Age of the Sylwester Clovis Point
We are indebted to C. Vance Haynes Jr for his careful reading of our 2017 report and for proposing alternative explanations for our field observations. In response, we consider each of the alternatives, present additional data, and find that our main conclusion – namely that some Clovis points in California may be of early Holocene age – does not require emendation in light of current knowledge
Edward Paul (“Ed”) Von der Porten (1933–2018)
Ed Von der Porten. Photograph courtesy of the Von der Porten family.When Edward Von der Porten died of complications following surgery in San Francisco on April 9, 2018, we lost a founding member o
Fluted and Basally Thinned Concave-Base Points of Obsidian in the Borden Collection from Inyo County, Alta California
This article describes, classifies, and provides the calculated ages of 14 basally thinned and fluted points of obsidian in the Borden collection from Rose Valley in southern Inyo County, California. With the exception of one item of Fish Springs obsidian, the specimens are all made of glass from geologic subsources in the Coso Volcanic Field. Typologically, the fragmentary and reworked artifacts appear to represent Clovis, or perhaps Clovis-deri…
News and Notes
News and Notes
Dennis Paul McDougall (1958–2023)
History (11 works) · History (9 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (4 works) · Genealogy (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 works) · Holocene (3 works)