Robert M Yohe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4053276 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Yohe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Yohe |
| SIGNATURE | YOHE R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, Bakersfield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 111 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past
Obsidian Hydration Dating of Proposed Paleoindian Artifacts from Tulare Lake, California
In this article, we report an obsidian hydration dating (OHD) analysis of 32 obsidian artifacts from the Witt Archaeological Locality in Tulare County, California. The artifacts (Western stemmed points, concave base points, crescents) were recovered from agricultural contexts, where provenience is indeterminate. Effective hydration temperature (EHT) was computed from local meteorological records. Hydration rates were based on geochemical source a…
Confirming a Cultural Association at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
Archaeologists have long subjected Clovis megafauna kill/scavenge sites to the highest level of scrutiny. In 1987, a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was found in spatial association with a small artifact assemblage in Converse County, Wyoming. However, due to the small tool assemblage, limited nature of the excavations, and questions about the security of the association between the artifacts and mammoth remains, the site was never included…
Fluted and Basally Thinned Concave-Base Points of Obsidian in the Borden Collection from Inyo County, Alta California: Age and Significance
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…
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin
Paleodiet in Western Idaho: An analysis of Mid-Archaic human remains from the Braden and DeMoss sites
Recently Discovered Clovis Points in Indian Wells Valley on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Southeastern Alta California
During a recent archaeological survey on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake along the relict shorelines of Pleistocene Lake China, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc., discovered five Clovis points and a variety of other artifacts, as well as fragmentary and mostly unidentifiable fossilized large mammal remains. Most of these points are better preserved and less sandblasted than other Clovis specimens found within the Lake China Basin. This art…
Late Pleistocene protein residues from the Mahaffy cache, Colorado
Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves
They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223 ) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dat…
Great Basin Bighorn Ceremonialism: Reflections on a Possible Sheep Shrine at the Rose Spring Site (CA-INY-372), Rose Valley, Alta California
In the early 1990s, a bighorn ram skull cap with intact horn cores, set atop a stacked rock cairn, was discovered at the Rose Spring site (CA-INY-372), located on the edge of the Coso Range at the southwestern corner of the Great Basin. In this article, we describe the character of the discovery, date the feature, and posit its meaning and function. The feature is intriguing since it might represent a prehistoric manifestation associated with Cos…
A Technological Evaluation of the Flint Blade-Core Reduction Sequence at Wadi El-Sheikh, Middle Egypt
During the summer of 2006, the authors had the opportunity to visit portions of the extensive flint quarries found associated with Wadi el-Sheikh near El-Minya, Middle Egypt. The subject of little formal study, these impressive quarries extend for several kilometers in the northern portion of the wadi and likely were used since prehistoric times. Initial evidence suggests that these quarries, where millions of flint blades and bifacial knives wer…
Bighorn hunting, resource depression, and rock art in the Coso Range, eastern California: A computer simulation model
DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America
The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance of the Clovis technological complex in North America at about 11,000 to 10,800 radiocarbon years before the present ( 14 C years B.P.) remains contentious. We establish that humans were present at Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, in south-central Oregon, by 12,300 14 C years B.P., through the recovery of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from coprolites, directl…
"Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis: "Implications for the Peopling of the Americas"
Waters and Stafford (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1122) provided useful information about the age of some Clovis sites but have not definitively established the temporal span of this cultural complex in the Americas. Only a continuing program of radiometric dating and careful stratigraphic correlations can address the lingering ambiguity about the emergence and spread of Clovis culture.
Mixed results of seven methods for organic residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff
Diversion Dam Cave (10-AA-99): A Paleoindian Site near Boise, Idaho
In this article we describe the results of excavation at the Diversion Dam Cave (10-AA-99) near Boise, Idaho, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation. Although the site has been heavily impacted over the years by illegal digging and urban encroachment, the data from these excavations confirmed that some deposits are intact. Radiocarbon data suggest a Paleoindian occupation, prior to 9220 ± 100 RCYBP and as far back as approximately 12,000 RCYBP. N…
CRM on CRM: One Person's Perspective on the Birth and Early Development of Cultural Resource Management
Obsidian Use and Technological Change in Rose Valley: Conclusions Based on the Analysis of Debitage from Two Sites
A comprehensive obsidian analysis of two important archaeological sites (Rose Spring and Stahl) in eastern California shows a significant change in lithic reduction strategies of locally obtained obsidian approximately 5,000 years ago. The technological analysis of the debitage used to defined the two trajectories is summarized and the importame of the conclusions to our understanding of culture change trough observed shifts in lithic technology …
Blood” From Stones? Probably: A Response to Fiedel
Immunological Protein Residue Analysis of Non-lithic Archaeological Materials
Immunological Identification of Small-Mammal Proteins on Aboriginal Milling Equipment
Ethnographic accounts of animal pulverization using stone grinding implements have led archaeologists to believe that this same behavior took place in the past. This important subsistence activity can now be confirmed through the immunological analysis of archaeological materials. Small-mammal blood-protein residue has been identified immunologically for the first time on milling equipment from two archaeological sites in southern California. Imm…
Immunological Identification of Small-Mammal Proteins on Aboriginal Milling Equipment
Ethnographic accounts of animal pulverization using stone grinding implements have led archaeologists to believe that this same behavior took place in the past. This important subsistence activity can now be confirmed through the immunological analysis of archaeological materials. Small-mammal blood-protein residue has been identified immunologically for the first time on milling equipment from two archaeological sites in southern California. Imm…
Mixed results of seven methods for organic residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff
Confirming a Cultural Association at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
Archaeologists have long subjected Clovis megafauna kill/scavenge sites to the highest level of scrutiny. In 1987, a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was found in spatial association with a small artifact assemblage in Converse County, Wyoming. However, due to the small tool assemblage, limited nature of the excavations, and questions about the security of the association between the artifacts and mammoth remains, the site was never included…
Late Pleistocene protein residues from the Mahaffy cache, Colorado
Immunological Protein Residue Analysis of Non-lithic Archaeological Materials
Blood” From Stones? Probably: A Response to Fiedel
Bighorn hunting, resource depression, and rock art in the Coso Range, eastern California: A computer simulation model
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
Recently Discovered Clovis Points in Indian Wells Valley on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Southeastern Alta California
During a recent archaeological survey on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake along the relict shorelines of Pleistocene Lake China, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc., discovered five Clovis points and a variety of other artifacts, as well as fragmentary and mostly unidentifiable fossilized large mammal remains. Most of these points are better preserved and less sandblasted than other Clovis specimens found within the Lake China Basin. This art…
Great Basin Bighorn Ceremonialism: Reflections on a Possible Sheep Shrine at the Rose Spring Site (CA-INY-372), Rose Valley, Alta California
In the early 1990s, a bighorn ram skull cap with intact horn cores, set atop a stacked rock cairn, was discovered at the Rose Spring site (CA-INY-372), located on the edge of the Coso Range at the southwestern corner of the Great Basin. In this article, we describe the character of the discovery, date the feature, and posit its meaning and function. The feature is intriguing since it might represent a prehistoric manifestation associated with Cos…
Obsidian Hydration Dating of Proposed Paleoindian Artifacts from Tulare Lake, California
In this article, we report an obsidian hydration dating (OHD) analysis of 32 obsidian artifacts from the Witt Archaeological Locality in Tulare County, California. The artifacts (Western stemmed points, concave base points, crescents) were recovered from agricultural contexts, where provenience is indeterminate. Effective hydration temperature (EHT) was computed from local meteorological records. Hydration rates were based on geochemical source a…
Paleodiet in Western Idaho: An analysis of Mid-Archaic human remains from the Braden and DeMoss sites
Immunological Identification of Small-Mammal Proteins on Aboriginal Milling Equipment
Ethnographic accounts of animal pulverization using stone grinding implements have led archaeologists to believe that this same behavior took place in the past. This important subsistence activity can now be confirmed through the immunological analysis of archaeological materials. Small-mammal blood-protein residue has been identified immunologically for the first time on milling equipment from two archaeological sites in southern California. Imm…
Immunological Protein Residue Analysis of Non-lithic Archaeological Materials
Blood” From Stones? Probably: A Response to Fiedel
Obsidian Use and Technological Change in Rose Valley: Conclusions Based on the Analysis of Debitage from Two Sites
A comprehensive obsidian analysis of two important archaeological sites (Rose Spring and Stahl) in eastern California shows a significant change in lithic reduction strategies of locally obtained obsidian approximately 5,000 years ago. The technological analysis of the debitage used to defined the two trajectories is summarized and the importame of the conclusions to our understanding of culture change trough observed shifts in lithic technology …
CRM on CRM: One Person's Perspective on the Birth and Early Development of Cultural Resource Management
Mixed results of seven methods for organic residue analysis applied to one vessel with the residue of a known foodstuff
Diversion Dam Cave (10-AA-99): A Paleoindian Site near Boise, Idaho
In this article we describe the results of excavation at the Diversion Dam Cave (10-AA-99) near Boise, Idaho, sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation. Although the site has been heavily impacted over the years by illegal digging and urban encroachment, the data from these excavations confirmed that some deposits are intact. Radiocarbon data suggest a Paleoindian occupation, prior to 9220 ± 100 RCYBP and as far back as approximately 12,000 RCYBP. N…
"Comment on "Redefining the Age of Clovis: "Implications for the Peopling of the Americas"
Waters and Stafford (Reports, 23 February 2007, p. 1122) provided useful information about the age of some Clovis sites but have not definitively established the temporal span of this cultural complex in the Americas. Only a continuing program of radiometric dating and careful stratigraphic correlations can address the lingering ambiguity about the emergence and spread of Clovis culture.
DNA from Pre-Clovis Human Coprolites in Oregon, North America
The timing of the first human migration into the Americas and its relation to the appearance of the Clovis technological complex in North America at about 11,000 to 10,800 radiocarbon years before the present ( 14 C years B.P.) remains contentious. We establish that humans were present at Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, in south-central Oregon, by 12,300 14 C years B.P., through the recovery of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from coprolites, directl…
Bighorn hunting, resource depression, and rock art in the Coso Range, eastern California: A computer simulation model
A Technological Evaluation of the Flint Blade-Core Reduction Sequence at Wadi El-Sheikh, Middle Egypt
During the summer of 2006, the authors had the opportunity to visit portions of the extensive flint quarries found associated with Wadi el-Sheikh near El-Minya, Middle Egypt. The subject of little formal study, these impressive quarries extend for several kilometers in the northern portion of the wadi and likely were used since prehistoric times. Initial evidence suggests that these quarries, where millions of flint blades and bifacial knives wer…
Clovis Age Western Stemmed Projectile Points and Human Coprolites at the Paisley Caves
They Walked Together Paisley Cave in Oregon provides some of the earliest evidence for humans in North America. Jenkins et al. (p. 223 ) provide a wide variety of additional evidence of early human occupation of this site, including a series of radiocarbon ages extending back to nearly 12,500 radiocarbon years ago (about 14,500 calendar years ago). The find includes examples of projectile points representative of the Western Stemmed Tradition dat…
Great Basin Bighorn Ceremonialism: Reflections on a Possible Sheep Shrine at the Rose Spring Site (CA-INY-372), Rose Valley, Alta California
In the early 1990s, a bighorn ram skull cap with intact horn cores, set atop a stacked rock cairn, was discovered at the Rose Spring site (CA-INY-372), located on the edge of the Coso Range at the southwestern corner of the Great Basin. In this article, we describe the character of the discovery, date the feature, and posit its meaning and function. The feature is intriguing since it might represent a prehistoric manifestation associated with Cos…
Late Pleistocene protein residues from the Mahaffy cache, Colorado
Younger Dryas Archaeology and Human Experience at the Paisley Caves in the Northern Great Basin
Paleodiet in Western Idaho: An analysis of Mid-Archaic human remains from the Braden and DeMoss sites
Recently Discovered Clovis Points in Indian Wells Valley on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Southeastern Alta California
During a recent archaeological survey on the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake along the relict shorelines of Pleistocene Lake China, Epsilon Systems Solutions, Inc., discovered five Clovis points and a variety of other artifacts, as well as fragmentary and mostly unidentifiable fossilized large mammal remains. Most of these points are better preserved and less sandblasted than other Clovis specimens found within the Lake China Basin. This art…
Folsom Mammoth Hunters? The Terminal Pleistocene Assemblage From Owl Cave (10bv30), Wasden Site, Idaho
The 1960s and 1970s excavations at Owl Cave (10BV30) recovered mammoth bone and Folsom-like points from the same strata, suggesting evidence for a post-Clovis mammoth kill. However, a synthesis of the excavation data was never published, and the locality has since been purged from the roster of sites with human/extinct megafauna associations. Here, we present dates on bone from the oldest stratum, review provenience data, conduct a bone-surface m…
Fluted and Basally Thinned Concave-Base Points of Obsidian in the Borden Collection from Inyo County, Alta California: Age and Significance
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…
Obsidian Hydration Dating of Proposed Paleoindian Artifacts from Tulare Lake, California
In this article, we report an obsidian hydration dating (OHD) analysis of 32 obsidian artifacts from the Witt Archaeological Locality in Tulare County, California. The artifacts (Western stemmed points, concave base points, crescents) were recovered from agricultural contexts, where provenience is indeterminate. Effective hydration temperature (EHT) was computed from local meteorological records. Hydration rates were based on geochemical source a…
Confirming a Cultural Association at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
Archaeologists have long subjected Clovis megafauna kill/scavenge sites to the highest level of scrutiny. In 1987, a Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) was found in spatial association with a small artifact assemblage in Converse County, Wyoming. However, due to the small tool assemblage, limited nature of the excavations, and questions about the security of the association between the artifacts and mammoth remains, the site was never included…
Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past
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