Fred L Nials
Biographic Data
| ID | 4514415 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fred L Nials |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fred L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nials |
| SIGNATURE | NIALS F L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Archaeology Southwest |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How to Prepare for Geoforensic Fieldwork to Investigate Archaeological Resource Crime
Geoforensic analyses complement archaeological resource crime investigations, cultural resource damage assessments, and other investigations involving sediments. Civil and criminal litigation may hinge on attributions of sediments recovered from persons, equipment, objects, and localities to specific source deposits, including altered cultural resources. Geoforensic fieldwork often entails fluid interplays among geological, archaeological, and in…
Hope in Dirt
A 2018 workshop on the White Mountain Apache Tribe lands in Arizona examined ways to enhance investigations into cultural property crime (CPC) through applications of rapidly evolving methods from archaeological science. CPC (also looting, graverobbing) refers to unauthorized damage, removal, or trafficking in materials possessing blends of communal, aesthetic, and scientific values. The Fort Apache workshop integrated four generally partitioned …
Mammoth Potential
The stream reach concept and the macro‐scale study of riverine agriculture in arid and semiarid environments
Maize agriculture appears to have been introduced into the semiarid southern part of the North American Southwest ca. 2200–2000 B.C., at a time when valley bottoms were aggrading. Although small‐scale, high‐risk agriculture might have been practiced in many landscape positions, valley‐bottom locations having particular geomorphic and/or hydrologic conditions would have provided the places most risk‐free for farming. These places, associated with …
Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A
A number of archeological features, including in‐filled irrigation canals of uncertain prehistoric age, occur within the Holocene floodplain of the Salt River at Phoenix, Arizona. In the first attempt to date irrigation‐canal sediments using luminescence methods, we obtained age estimates of 1640 ± 190 yr B.P. (1σ) (multi‐aliquot or MA) and 1621 ± 95 yr B.P. (post‐IR single‐aliquot‐regenerative‐dose or SAR) for a single sample from the base of th…
The Peopling of the Arica Coast During the Preceramic
In this paper Chinchorro mobility and ecology will be presented. The research was accomplished as a multidisciplinary effort using surveys of the upper and lower coasts of Arica, excavations of two shell middens, and radiocarbon dating of 21 samples from mummies and middens. The following observations can be drawn from our ongoing study: 1) the peopling of the coast moved along the smooth paths from the upper coastal cordillera rather than the lo…
The stream reach concept and the macro‐scale study of riverine agriculture in arid and semiarid environments
Maize agriculture appears to have been introduced into the semiarid southern part of the North American Southwest ca. 2200–2000 B.C., at a time when valley bottoms were aggrading. Although small‐scale, high‐risk agriculture might have been practiced in many landscape positions, valley‐bottom locations having particular geomorphic and/or hydrologic conditions would have provided the places most risk‐free for farming. These places, associated with …
Hope in Dirt
A 2018 workshop on the White Mountain Apache Tribe lands in Arizona examined ways to enhance investigations into cultural property crime (CPC) through applications of rapidly evolving methods from archaeological science. CPC (also looting, graverobbing) refers to unauthorized damage, removal, or trafficking in materials possessing blends of communal, aesthetic, and scientific values. The Fort Apache workshop integrated four generally partitioned …
The Peopling of the Arica Coast During the Preceramic
In this paper Chinchorro mobility and ecology will be presented. The research was accomplished as a multidisciplinary effort using surveys of the upper and lower coasts of Arica, excavations of two shell middens, and radiocarbon dating of 21 samples from mummies and middens. The following observations can be drawn from our ongoing study: 1) the peopling of the coast moved along the smooth paths from the upper coastal cordillera rather than the lo…
Photonic dating of prehistoric irrigation canals at Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.A
A number of archeological features, including in‐filled irrigation canals of uncertain prehistoric age, occur within the Holocene floodplain of the Salt River at Phoenix, Arizona. In the first attempt to date irrigation‐canal sediments using luminescence methods, we obtained age estimates of 1640 ± 190 yr B.P. (1σ) (multi‐aliquot or MA) and 1621 ± 95 yr B.P. (post‐IR single‐aliquot‐regenerative‐dose or SAR) for a single sample from the base of th…
The stream reach concept and the macro‐scale study of riverine agriculture in arid and semiarid environments
Maize agriculture appears to have been introduced into the semiarid southern part of the North American Southwest ca. 2200–2000 B.C., at a time when valley bottoms were aggrading. Although small‐scale, high‐risk agriculture might have been practiced in many landscape positions, valley‐bottom locations having particular geomorphic and/or hydrologic conditions would have provided the places most risk‐free for farming. These places, associated with …
Mammoth Potential
Hope in Dirt
A 2018 workshop on the White Mountain Apache Tribe lands in Arizona examined ways to enhance investigations into cultural property crime (CPC) through applications of rapidly evolving methods from archaeological science. CPC (also looting, graverobbing) refers to unauthorized damage, removal, or trafficking in materials possessing blends of communal, aesthetic, and scientific values. The Fort Apache workshop integrated four generally partitioned …
How to Prepare for Geoforensic Fieldwork to Investigate Archaeological Resource Crime
Geoforensic analyses complement archaeological resource crime investigations, cultural resource damage assessments, and other investigations involving sediments. Civil and criminal litigation may hinge on attributions of sediments recovered from persons, equipment, objects, and localities to specific source deposits, including altered cultural resources. Geoforensic fieldwork often entails fluid interplays among geological, archaeological, and in…
Archaeology (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 works) · Paleontology (3 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (2 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (2 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Excavation (2 works) · Floodplain (2 works)