D Rhode
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 26963 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D Rhode |
| NOMBRES | D |
| APELLIDO | Rhode |
| FIRMA | RHODE D |
| AFILIACIONES | Desert Research Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2873-030X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Geoarchaeology of Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene Occupation at the EL Peregrino and Colina Castor Sites on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
This study presents the geoarchaeological and chronometric analysis of two Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene archaeological sites: El Peregrino (PAIC‐88) and Colina Castor (PAIC‐91), located on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico. Both sites are situated at the base of fossil spring localities above modern sea level and contain stratified cultural materials associated with now‐extinct freshwater sources that likely played a critical role in s…
The Geoarchaeological Context of Early Holocene Human Occupation at the Cerro Pedregoso Site, Cedros Island, Mexico
Geoarchaeological excavations at the Cerro Pedregoso site on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico, uncovered a stratified alluvial fan deposit containing well‐preserved evidence of repeated human occupation during the Early Holocene, between ~12,000 and 9600 cal BP . We used radiocarbon dating of wood charcoal and marine shell from multiple excavation units to establish a secure chronology for these early coastal forager occupations. These cult…
Burned Wood as a Cultural Marker? Ancient Ligneous Landscapes and Firewood Use at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, Nevada, USA
Plant resources have been widely relied upon by past hunter-gatherer societies; their remains uncovered at archaeological sites can serve as precious archives of the lives of past humans. However, while faunal remains are generally well preserved, botanical materials are usually charred, and less commonly preserved under conditions of desiccation, imbibition or freezing. Bonneville Estates Rockshelter ( BER ), Nevada, was intermittently occupied …
Unresolved
Pigati, J. S., K. B. Springer, J. S. Honke, D. Wahl, M. R. Champagne, S. R. H. Zimmerman, H. J. Gray, et al. [2023. “Independent Age Estimates Resolve the Controversy of Ancient Human Footprints at White Sands.” Science 382: 73–75. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh5007] provide new age estimates for human footprints found at White Sands Locality 2, New Mexico, concluding that controversies about previously reported age estimates of ∼21,000–23,0…
A critical assessment of claims that human footprints in the Lake Otero basin, New Mexico date to the Last Glacial Maximum
The ancient human footprints in valley-bottom sediments in Tularosa Valley, New Mexico, are fascinating and potentially important because they suggest interactions between Pleistocene megafauna as well as great antiquity. The dating of those footprints is crucial in interpretations of when humans first came to North America from Asia, but the ages have larger uncertainties than has been reported. Some of that uncertainty is related to the possibi…
Great Basin Survivance (USA)
The Late Holocene Dry Period (LHDP) was a one-plus millennial megadrought (3100-1800 cal BP) that delivered challenges and windfalls to Indigenous communities of the central Great Basin (United States). New pollen and sedimentation rate studies, combined with existing tree-ring data, submerged stump ages, and lake-level evidence, demonstrate that the LHDP was the driest Great Basin climate within the last 6,000 years-more extreme than the well-kn…
The Nye Canyon Paleo Site
The place of the Clovis techno-complex in Great Basin culture history remains enigmatic, both in relation to the Western Stemmed Tradition – the dominant Paleoindian artifact complex in the Intermountain West – and to the range of late Pleistocene/early Holocene habitats that people employing Clovis toolkits utilized. Here we describe the Nye Canyon Paleo Site (26Ly930), located in the Pine Grove Hills in western Nevada. The Nye Canyon Paleo Site…
Holocene subalpine forest-parkland dynamics in Big Cottonwood Canyon, Wasatch Mountains, Utah, USA
Understanding long-term responses of subalpine forest-parklands to Holocene climate variability in local context is critical for better managing those ecosystems under future climate change. Available records suggest that western North American subalpine forest-parkland ecosystems responded to Holocene climate in various ways at different places. Here we present a Holocene record of upper montane forest-parkland dynamics from Silver Lake in Big C…
Recent excavations at Owl Ridge, interior Alaska
The early archaeological record of Beringia is complicated by the occurrence of several lithic industries. Site assemblages, dating from 14,000 to 12,800 years ago and located from the Yana‐Indigirka Lowlands of Siberia to the upper Tanana River basin, contain artifacts characteristic of the Nenana technological complex. After 12,800 years ago, site assemblages contain artifacts diagnostic of the Denali technocomplex. To explain the variation in …
Early foraging settlement of the Tibetan Plateau highlands
Wood Charcoal From Archaeological Sites in the Qinghai Lake Basin, Western China
The archaeological record of the Qinghai Lake Basin, northeast Tibetan Plateau, western China, contains charcoal-based evidence of significant changes in the distribution of local shrub land and woodland through the last 12,500 14C yr BP. These vegetation trends correspond with regional changes in hunter-gatherer settlement and patterns of Holocene climate change. This charcoal-based record is useful to address current issues concerning the timin…
A biogeographic perspective on early human colonization of the Tibetan Plateau
Prehistory of Nevada's northern tier
Rock Country, Upper Lahontan Basin, Upper Humboldt Plains, and Thousand Springs Valley (fig.2).None of these regions have significant stands of pinyon, major watercourses, or extensive wetland areas.Despite the lack of these habitats, which were so critical to ethnographic groups living in the more southerly, core areas of the Great Basin, the project corridor was used by many people throughout the prehistoric past.These occupations were not cons…
Characterization of obsidian from the Tibetan Plateau by XRF and NAA
Dry Creek Revisited
The multicomponent Dry Creek site, located in the Nenana Valley, central Alaska, is arguably one of the most important archaeological sites in Beringia. Original work in the 1970s identified two separate cultural layers, called Components 1 and 2, thought to date to the terminal Pleistocene and suggesting that the site was visited by Upper Paleolithic huntergatherers between about 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years before present (cal B.P.). The ol…
Hunter Gatherer Behavior
Mind the gaps
The early appearance of Shuidonggou core-and-blade technology in north China
Late Occupation of the High‐Elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau Based on Cosmogenic, Luminescence, and Radiocarbon Ages
10 Be‐ 26 Al cosmogenic surface exposure, optically stimulated luminescence, and radiocarbon dates from the site of Xidatan 2 (∼4300 m above sea level [asl] in the Kunlun Pass, northern Tibetan Plateau) suggest the site was intermittently and briefly occupied approximately 9200–6400 yr B.P. This age is substantially younger than expected given the late Upper Paleolithic character of the lithic assemblage, which is dominated by microlithic and uni…
Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska
Climate, environment, and humans in North America’s Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900–11,600 calendar years ago
Paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations at Qinghai Lake, western China
Age constraints on the late Quaternary evolution of Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau
Dating and geomorphology of shoreline features in the Qinghai Lake basin of northwestern China suggest that, contrary to previous interpretations, the lake likely did not reach levels 66–140 m above modern within the past ∼ 90,000 yr. Maximum highstands of ∼ 20–66 m above modern probably date to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5. MIS 3 highstands are undated and uncertain but may have been at or below post-glacial highs. The lake probably reached ∼ 32…
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene lake‐level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada
The Great Basin of the western U.S. contains a rich record of Late Pleistocene and Holocene lake‐level fluctuations as well as an extensive record of human occupation during the same time frame. We compare spatial‐temporal relationships between these records in the Lahontan basin to consider whether lake‐level fluctuations across the Pleistocene‐Holocene transition controlled distribution of archaeological sites. We use the reasonably well‐dated …
Dietary plant use by middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville Basin, western North America
Middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville basin, western North America, developed a subsistence strategy that differed in emphasis and orientation compared with their early Holocene predecessors. This paper examines one aspect of this changing middle Holocene subsistence orientation, the increasing dietary use of plants such as small hard-coated seeds (including iodinebush, pepperweed, goosefoot, and others), bulrush rhizomes, cactus pads and fr…
The Late Upper Paleolithic occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin
Epipaleolithic/early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake, western China
Antiquity of early Holocene small-seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave
When did people start to eat small seeds, and what drove them to it? New investigations and dating at the Danger Cave in the American Great Basin show that seeds (pickleweed seeds) did not become part of the staple diet until after 8700 b.p. It was at this time that animal and plant resources had begun to seriously diminish in a shrinking wetland
Early foraging settlement of the Tibetan Plateau highlands
Mind the gaps
Measurement of Archaeological Diversity and the Sample-Size Effect
Assemblage diversity is an important part of the structure of the archaeological record, but measuring this parameter often is difficult if samples of assemblages differ in size. Two methods, here called the sampling approach and regression approach, currently are used to assess the sample-size effect. The approaches differ in method and in results. The sampling approach is better suited to analysis of assemblage diversity among samples when the …
Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska
Dry Creek Revisited
The multicomponent Dry Creek site, located in the Nenana Valley, central Alaska, is arguably one of the most important archaeological sites in Beringia. Original work in the 1970s identified two separate cultural layers, called Components 1 and 2, thought to date to the terminal Pleistocene and suggesting that the site was visited by Upper Paleolithic huntergatherers between about 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years before present (cal B.P.). The ol…
The early appearance of Shuidonggou core-and-blade technology in north China
On Transportation Costs of Great Basin Resources
Prehistory of Nevada's northern tier
Rock Country, Upper Lahontan Basin, Upper Humboldt Plains, and Thousand Springs Valley (fig.2).None of these regions have significant stands of pinyon, major watercourses, or extensive wetland areas.Despite the lack of these habitats, which were so critical to ethnographic groups living in the more southerly, core areas of the Great Basin, the project corridor was used by many people throughout the prehistoric past.These occupations were not cons…
Late Occupation of the High‐Elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau Based on Cosmogenic, Luminescence, and Radiocarbon Ages
10 Be‐ 26 Al cosmogenic surface exposure, optically stimulated luminescence, and radiocarbon dates from the site of Xidatan 2 (∼4300 m above sea level [asl] in the Kunlun Pass, northern Tibetan Plateau) suggest the site was intermittently and briefly occupied approximately 9200–6400 yr B.P. This age is substantially younger than expected given the late Upper Paleolithic character of the lithic assemblage, which is dominated by microlithic and uni…
Coprolites from Hidden Cave, revisited
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene lake‐level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada
The Great Basin of the western U.S. contains a rich record of Late Pleistocene and Holocene lake‐level fluctuations as well as an extensive record of human occupation during the same time frame. We compare spatial‐temporal relationships between these records in the Lahontan basin to consider whether lake‐level fluctuations across the Pleistocene‐Holocene transition controlled distribution of archaeological sites. We use the reasonably well‐dated …
Pine Nut Use in the Early Holocene and Beyond
Recent excavations at Owl Ridge, interior Alaska
The early archaeological record of Beringia is complicated by the occurrence of several lithic industries. Site assemblages, dating from 14,000 to 12,800 years ago and located from the Yana‐Indigirka Lowlands of Siberia to the upper Tanana River basin, contain artifacts characteristic of the Nenana technological complex. After 12,800 years ago, site assemblages contain artifacts diagnostic of the Denali technocomplex. To explain the variation in …
A biogeographic perspective on early human colonization of the Tibetan Plateau
Dietary plant use by middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville Basin, western North America
Middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville basin, western North America, developed a subsistence strategy that differed in emphasis and orientation compared with their early Holocene predecessors. This paper examines one aspect of this changing middle Holocene subsistence orientation, the increasing dietary use of plants such as small hard-coated seeds (including iodinebush, pepperweed, goosefoot, and others), bulrush rhizomes, cactus pads and fr…
The Nye Canyon Paleo Site
The place of the Clovis techno-complex in Great Basin culture history remains enigmatic, both in relation to the Western Stemmed Tradition – the dominant Paleoindian artifact complex in the Intermountain West – and to the range of late Pleistocene/early Holocene habitats that people employing Clovis toolkits utilized. Here we describe the Nye Canyon Paleo Site (26Ly930), located in the Pine Grove Hills in western Nevada. The Nye Canyon Paleo Site…
Characterization of obsidian from the Tibetan Plateau by XRF and NAA
The Geoarchaeological Context of Early Holocene Human Occupation at the Cerro Pedregoso Site, Cedros Island, Mexico
Geoarchaeological excavations at the Cerro Pedregoso site on Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico, uncovered a stratified alluvial fan deposit containing well‐preserved evidence of repeated human occupation during the Early Holocene, between ~12,000 and 9600 cal BP . We used radiocarbon dating of wood charcoal and marine shell from multiple excavation units to establish a secure chronology for these early coastal forager occupations. These cult…
Great Basin Survivance (USA)
The Late Holocene Dry Period (LHDP) was a one-plus millennial megadrought (3100-1800 cal BP) that delivered challenges and windfalls to Indigenous communities of the central Great Basin (United States). New pollen and sedimentation rate studies, combined with existing tree-ring data, submerged stump ages, and lake-level evidence, demonstrate that the LHDP was the driest Great Basin climate within the last 6,000 years-more extreme than the well-kn…
Measurement of Archaeological Diversity and the Sample-Size Effect
Assemblage diversity is an important part of the structure of the archaeological record, but measuring this parameter often is difficult if samples of assemblages differ in size. Two methods, here called the sampling approach and regression approach, currently are used to assess the sample-size effect. The approaches differ in method and in results. The sampling approach is better suited to analysis of assemblage diversity among samples when the …
Early Holocene pinyon ( Pinus monophylla ) in the northeastern Great Basin
Fine-grained excavation and analysis of a stratigraphic column from Danger Cave, northeastern Great Basin, suggests prehistoric hunter-gatherers were collecting and using singleleaf pinyon ( Pinus monophylla ) near the site for at least the last 7500 yr. Human use of the cave began after the retreat of Lake Bonneville from the Gilbert level, shortly before 10,000 yr B.P. In stratum 9, culturally deposited pine nut hulls appear in the sequence by …
On Transportation Costs of Great Basin Resources
Late Wisconsin/Early Holocene Vegetation in the Bonneville Basin
Woodrat middens from the northern Bonneville Basin allow a reconstruction of vegetation changes from 14,000 to 9000 yr ago. Cold montane steppe, dominated by sagebrush, covered much of the western Bonneville Basin prior to 13,000 yr ago. From 13,000-10,800 yr ago, the region was vegetated by limber pine woodlands in lower montane settings and a mosaic of limber pine and sagebrush steppe along basin flour margins. These low-elevation limber pine w…
Luminescence dating of protohistoric pottery from the Great Basin
Luminescence analyses of several protohistoric brownware ceramics from the Great Basin have produced dates ranging from the 15th to 19th centuries. These begin to add detail to the chronology of these ceramics, which up until now has been poorly known despite their potential importance for understanding Numic population movement in the area. Use of the “slide method” for determining equivalent dose has circumvented problems due to nonlinearity in…
Pine Nut Use in the Early Holocene and Beyond
Paleoenvironmental reconstruction in arid lands
Early Holocene Juniper Woodland and Chaparral Taxa in the Central Baja California Peninsula, Mexico
A packrat midden located in the Sierra San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico, dating to ca. 10,200 14 C yr B.P., contains remains of California juniper ( Juniperus californica ) and other taxa now associated with southern California chaparral. California juniper does not occur in the Sierra San Francisco today, although “relict” populations of a few chaparral taxa still occur at higher elevations. This midden record documents the early Holoc…
Coprolites from Hidden Cave, revisited
The Late Upper Paleolithic occupation of the northern Tibetan Plateau margin
Epipaleolithic/early Neolithic settlements at Qinghai Lake, western China
Antiquity of early Holocene small-seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave
When did people start to eat small seeds, and what drove them to it? New investigations and dating at the Danger Cave in the American Great Basin show that seeds (pickleweed seeds) did not become part of the staple diet until after 8700 b.p. It was at this time that animal and plant resources had begun to seriously diminish in a shrinking wetland
A short chronology for the peopling of the Tibetan Plateau
Age constraints on the late Quaternary evolution of Qinghai Lake, Tibetan Plateau
Dating and geomorphology of shoreline features in the Qinghai Lake basin of northwestern China suggest that, contrary to previous interpretations, the lake likely did not reach levels 66–140 m above modern within the past ∼ 90,000 yr. Maximum highstands of ∼ 20–66 m above modern probably date to Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5. MIS 3 highstands are undated and uncertain but may have been at or below post-glacial highs. The lake probably reached ∼ 32…
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene lake‐level fluctuations in the Lahontan Basin, Nevada
The Great Basin of the western U.S. contains a rich record of Late Pleistocene and Holocene lake‐level fluctuations as well as an extensive record of human occupation during the same time frame. We compare spatial‐temporal relationships between these records in the Lahontan basin to consider whether lake‐level fluctuations across the Pleistocene‐Holocene transition controlled distribution of archaeological sites. We use the reasonably well‐dated …
Dietary plant use by middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville Basin, western North America
Middle Holocene foragers in the Bonneville basin, western North America, developed a subsistence strategy that differed in emphasis and orientation compared with their early Holocene predecessors. This paper examines one aspect of this changing middle Holocene subsistence orientation, the increasing dietary use of plants such as small hard-coated seeds (including iodinebush, pepperweed, goosefoot, and others), bulrush rhizomes, cactus pads and fr…
Paleoenvironmental and archaeological investigations at Qinghai Lake, western China
Climate, environment, and humans in North America’s Great Basin during the Younger Dryas, 12,900–11,600 calendar years ago
Late Occupation of the High‐Elevation Northern Tibetan Plateau Based on Cosmogenic, Luminescence, and Radiocarbon Ages
10 Be‐ 26 Al cosmogenic surface exposure, optically stimulated luminescence, and radiocarbon dates from the site of Xidatan 2 (∼4300 m above sea level [asl] in the Kunlun Pass, northern Tibetan Plateau) suggest the site was intermittently and briefly occupied approximately 9200–6400 yr B.P. This age is substantially younger than expected given the late Upper Paleolithic character of the lithic assemblage, which is dominated by microlithic and uni…
Serpentine Hot Springs, Alaska
Hunter Gatherer Behavior
Mind the gaps
The early appearance of Shuidonggou core-and-blade technology in north China
Characterization of obsidian from the Tibetan Plateau by XRF and NAA
Dry Creek Revisited
The multicomponent Dry Creek site, located in the Nenana Valley, central Alaska, is arguably one of the most important archaeological sites in Beringia. Original work in the 1970s identified two separate cultural layers, called Components 1 and 2, thought to date to the terminal Pleistocene and suggesting that the site was visited by Upper Paleolithic huntergatherers between about 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years before present (cal B.P.). The ol…
Geography (37 obras) · Archaeology (35 obras) · Geology (27 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (25 obras) · Holocene (22 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (22 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (20 obras) · Paleontology (18 obras) · Physical geography (16 obras) · Structural basin (14 obras)