Howard Cyr
Biographic Data
| ID | 5659808 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Howard Cyr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Howard |
| FAMILY NAME | Cyr |
| SIGNATURE | CYR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3439-3469 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
History and Hydrology
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
Food production in the Early Woodland
Open riverbanks and disturbed floodplains are targeted by archaeologists as optimal habitats for the growth of many of the weedy indigenous seed crops in eastern North America, but there is still little evidence for garden locations in the archaeological record. This article combines macrobotanical and geoarchaeological analyses from the Birdwell site (40GN228), located on the Nolichucky River, to give insight into where cultigens were planted an…
It is the little things that count
Originally excavated in 1973, Widows Creek (1JA305) is a deeply stratified, multi-component site located on the Tennessee River in Jackson County, Alabama, with cultural deposits spanning the Early Archaic (ca. 10,000 B.P.) through the Mississippian (ca. 800 B.P.) periods. A recent study of sediment samples curated during the 1973 excavation was carried out to understand changes in the cultural and natural stratigraphy and the potential influence…
Taphonomy and the role of experimentation in microartifact analysis
In this paper, we review the minimal role experimentation has had in microartifact analysis to date and argue that the future of microartifact research lies in increased experimentation. To this end, we describe our own experimental efforts to understand the taphonomic and site formation processes associated with microartifact deposition and post-deposition. The project, conducted as part of an undergraduate class in experimental archaeology at M…
Multi‐Scalar Approaches to Geoarchaeological Questions
Reconstructing landscape and vegetation through multiple proxy indicators
The St. Louis site, located in the Plains–Parkland transition zone along the South Saskatchewan River, in Saskatchewan, Canada, is a multiple‐component site consisting of stratified floodplain alluvium with multiple, weakly developed soils. Human occupation at the site spans the Late Paleoindian to Middle Precontact periods (10,000–5,000 14 C yr B.P.), a time poorly represented archaeologically on the Northern Plains. The dearth of early–middle H…
History and Hydrology
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
It is the little things that count
Originally excavated in 1973, Widows Creek (1JA305) is a deeply stratified, multi-component site located on the Tennessee River in Jackson County, Alabama, with cultural deposits spanning the Early Archaic (ca. 10,000 B.P.) through the Mississippian (ca. 800 B.P.) periods. A recent study of sediment samples curated during the 1973 excavation was carried out to understand changes in the cultural and natural stratigraphy and the potential influence…
Taphonomy and the role of experimentation in microartifact analysis
In this paper, we review the minimal role experimentation has had in microartifact analysis to date and argue that the future of microartifact research lies in increased experimentation. To this end, we describe our own experimental efforts to understand the taphonomic and site formation processes associated with microartifact deposition and post-deposition. The project, conducted as part of an undergraduate class in experimental archaeology at M…
Multi‐Scalar Approaches to Geoarchaeological Questions
Reconstructing landscape and vegetation through multiple proxy indicators
The St. Louis site, located in the Plains–Parkland transition zone along the South Saskatchewan River, in Saskatchewan, Canada, is a multiple‐component site consisting of stratified floodplain alluvium with multiple, weakly developed soils. Human occupation at the site spans the Late Paleoindian to Middle Precontact periods (10,000–5,000 14 C yr B.P.), a time poorly represented archaeologically on the Northern Plains. The dearth of early–middle H…
Multi‐Scalar Approaches to Geoarchaeological Questions
It is the little things that count
Originally excavated in 1973, Widows Creek (1JA305) is a deeply stratified, multi-component site located on the Tennessee River in Jackson County, Alabama, with cultural deposits spanning the Early Archaic (ca. 10,000 B.P.) through the Mississippian (ca. 800 B.P.) periods. A recent study of sediment samples curated during the 1973 excavation was carried out to understand changes in the cultural and natural stratigraphy and the potential influence…
Taphonomy and the role of experimentation in microartifact analysis
In this paper, we review the minimal role experimentation has had in microartifact analysis to date and argue that the future of microartifact research lies in increased experimentation. To this end, we describe our own experimental efforts to understand the taphonomic and site formation processes associated with microartifact deposition and post-deposition. The project, conducted as part of an undergraduate class in experimental archaeology at M…
Food production in the Early Woodland
Open riverbanks and disturbed floodplains are targeted by archaeologists as optimal habitats for the growth of many of the weedy indigenous seed crops in eastern North America, but there is still little evidence for garden locations in the archaeological record. This article combines macrobotanical and geoarchaeological analyses from the Birdwell site (40GN228), located on the Nolichucky River, to give insight into where cultigens were planted an…
History and Hydrology
Local lore has long identified an entrenched feature crossing Fort Morgan peninsula on Alabama’s Gulf of Mexico coast (USA) as an ancient canoe canal, a folk identification now confirmed by archival, artifactual, geochronological, geoarchaeological, and hydrological evidence. A 1.39 km canal (site 1BA709) linked two estuaries, Oyster Bay and Little Lagoon, connecting Mobile Bay to the Gulf of Mexico late in the Middle Woodland period, ca. a.d. 60…
Archaeology (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geology (3 works) · Archaeology and Natural History (2 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Isotope Analysis in Ecology (2 works)