Robert J Jeske
Biographic Data
| ID | 98584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Jeske |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jeske |
| SIGNATURE | JESKE R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 249 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Chronology for Mississippian and Oneota Occupations at Aztalan and the Lake Koshkonong Locality
The Middle Mississippian component at Aztalan was a mixed, Late Woodland / Mississippian occupation sited within a heavily fortified habitation and mound center that is located on a tributary of the Rock River in Wisconsin. It represents the northernmost large Cahokian-related village recorded. The Oneota Lake Koshkonong Locality of the Rock River drainage is located approximately 20 km south of Aztalan, and it consists of a 25 km2 area along the…
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
Preliminary evidence for the efficacy of the Canine Surrogacy Approach in the Great Lakes
A Multi-Method Approach to Inferring Early Agriculturalists’ Stone Tool Use at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site
While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis, it is clear that a multipronged approach, including an evaluation of material acquisition, production, and tool use, is necessary if tool function is going to prove truly useful for understanding past cultures. Moreover, the role of chipped lithic tools in the economies of agriculture-based populations has seen little research compared to preagricultural syst…
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part I
View correction statement:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part III
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part II
The progression of archaeology in the midcontinent over the past 40 years has moved on a series of different but overlapping fronts: regional, governmental, institutional, disciplinary, and personal. This collection of thoughts by both longtime and relatively young practitioners of our field suggests the many ways that archaeology has changed for the good"”and maybe not so good"”depending on our own experiences. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeol…
Microwear Analysis of Bipolar Tools From the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47je904)
Previous microwear analysis of a sample of artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site has demonstrated that, in general, morphofunctional typology has limited value for the assessment of tool function at that site. The site is a small Oneota village (ad 1200–1400) near Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin. Multiple data sets indicate a year round occupation, a subsistence regimen of maize agriculture and exploitation of a wide variety of…
The Archaeology of Death
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for rese…
The Potential of Bulk δ13C on Encrusted Cooking Residues as Independent Evidence for Regional Maize Histories
The histories of maize utilization in eastern North America have been substantially revised recently, primarily because of the analysis of charred cooking residues encrusted on pottery. A multifaceted research strategy of bulk δ13C assays coupled with accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon data and microbotanical evidence can yield coherent regional maize use histories. Bulk δ13 C assay interpretation complications include (1) variations among…
Analogic Reasoning, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Impact of Canines on the Archaeological Record
Archaeologists have become aware that the ways they have used ethnographic analogy provide only limited ability to make inferences about the past. This apparent tyranny of the ethnographic record has caused a crisis for many archaeologists, as well as ethnoarchaeologists. Susan Kent remained a strong defender of analogic reason and encouraged ethnoarchaeologists to use analogy to create a better inferential structure for interpreting archaeologic…
Canine Digging Behavior and Archaeological Implications
Pit features, frequently reported at archaeological sites, are usually thought be culturally produced. The numbers and forms of pits found at an archaeological site influence inferences of human activity; therefore, the inferred cultural origin of pits at archaeological sites needs to be demonstrated, rather than assumed. Ethnoarchaeological study of dog digging behavior, combined with our understanding of the long symbiotic relationship between …
World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies
World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social and political phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that a hierarchical model of core-periphery interaction does not explain the Cahokianphenomenon, because several crucial clements of such a model cannot be demonstrated to have existed within the Mississippian system. It is suggested that looking at Mississippian society as a differential core-periph…
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
Energetic Efficiency and Lithic Technology
Optimal-foraging theory and the concept of energetic efficiency have been used in archaeology for over a decade, usually to explore subsistence behavior. People, however, made choices for energy expenditure in other areas of culture, including lithic technology. It is suggested that a shift in the allocation of energy as an adaptive response to changes in social organization caused the widely noted decline in formal tool types and stone-tool refi…
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
Energetic Efficiency and Lithic Technology
Optimal-foraging theory and the concept of energetic efficiency have been used in archaeology for over a decade, usually to explore subsistence behavior. People, however, made choices for energy expenditure in other areas of culture, including lithic technology. It is suggested that a shift in the allocation of energy as an adaptive response to changes in social organization caused the widely noted decline in formal tool types and stone-tool refi…
The Archaeology of Death
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for rese…
The Potential of Bulk δ13C on Encrusted Cooking Residues as Independent Evidence for Regional Maize Histories
The histories of maize utilization in eastern North America have been substantially revised recently, primarily because of the analysis of charred cooking residues encrusted on pottery. A multifaceted research strategy of bulk δ13C assays coupled with accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon data and microbotanical evidence can yield coherent regional maize use histories. Bulk δ13 C assay interpretation complications include (1) variations among…
Microwear Analysis of Bipolar Tools From the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47je904)
Previous microwear analysis of a sample of artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site has demonstrated that, in general, morphofunctional typology has limited value for the assessment of tool function at that site. The site is a small Oneota village (ad 1200–1400) near Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin. Multiple data sets indicate a year round occupation, a subsistence regimen of maize agriculture and exploitation of a wide variety of…
A Multi-Method Approach to Inferring Early Agriculturalists’ Stone Tool Use at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site
While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis, it is clear that a multipronged approach, including an evaluation of material acquisition, production, and tool use, is necessary if tool function is going to prove truly useful for understanding past cultures. Moreover, the role of chipped lithic tools in the economies of agriculture-based populations has seen little research compared to preagricultural syst…
Chronology for Mississippian and Oneota Occupations at Aztalan and the Lake Koshkonong Locality
The Middle Mississippian component at Aztalan was a mixed, Late Woodland / Mississippian occupation sited within a heavily fortified habitation and mound center that is located on a tributary of the Rock River in Wisconsin. It represents the northernmost large Cahokian-related village recorded. The Oneota Lake Koshkonong Locality of the Rock River drainage is located approximately 20 km south of Aztalan, and it consists of a 25 km2 area along the…
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
Preliminary evidence for the efficacy of the Canine Surrogacy Approach in the Great Lakes
Canine Digging Behavior and Archaeological Implications
Pit features, frequently reported at archaeological sites, are usually thought be culturally produced. The numbers and forms of pits found at an archaeological site influence inferences of human activity; therefore, the inferred cultural origin of pits at archaeological sites needs to be demonstrated, rather than assumed. Ethnoarchaeological study of dog digging behavior, combined with our understanding of the long symbiotic relationship between …
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Analogic Reasoning, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Impact of Canines on the Archaeological Record
Archaeologists have become aware that the ways they have used ethnographic analogy provide only limited ability to make inferences about the past. This apparent tyranny of the ethnographic record has caused a crisis for many archaeologists, as well as ethnoarchaeologists. Susan Kent remained a strong defender of analogic reason and encouraged ethnoarchaeologists to use analogy to create a better inferential structure for interpreting archaeologic…
Energetic Efficiency and Lithic Technology
Optimal-foraging theory and the concept of energetic efficiency have been used in archaeology for over a decade, usually to explore subsistence behavior. People, however, made choices for energy expenditure in other areas of culture, including lithic technology. It is suggested that a shift in the allocation of energy as an adaptive response to changes in social organization caused the widely noted decline in formal tool types and stone-tool refi…
Why Hunter-Gatherers Work
World Systems Theory, Core Periphery Interactions and Elite Economic Exchange in Mississippian Societies
World Systems Theory has been one approach used to explain the rise of the Mississippian social and political phenomenon. In this paper it is argued that a hierarchical model of core-periphery interaction does not explain the Cahokianphenomenon, because several crucial clements of such a model cannot be demonstrated to have existed within the Mississippian system. It is suggested that looking at Mississippian society as a differential core-periph…
Canine Digging Behavior and Archaeological Implications
Pit features, frequently reported at archaeological sites, are usually thought be culturally produced. The numbers and forms of pits found at an archaeological site influence inferences of human activity; therefore, the inferred cultural origin of pits at archaeological sites needs to be demonstrated, rather than assumed. Ethnoarchaeological study of dog digging behavior, combined with our understanding of the long symbiotic relationship between …
Analogic Reasoning, Ethnoarchaeology, and the Impact of Canines on the Archaeological Record
Archaeologists have become aware that the ways they have used ethnographic analogy provide only limited ability to make inferences about the past. This apparent tyranny of the ethnographic record has caused a crisis for many archaeologists, as well as ethnoarchaeologists. Susan Kent remained a strong defender of analogic reason and encouraged ethnoarchaeologists to use analogy to create a better inferential structure for interpreting archaeologic…
The Potential of Bulk δ13C on Encrusted Cooking Residues as Independent Evidence for Regional Maize Histories
The histories of maize utilization in eastern North America have been substantially revised recently, primarily because of the analysis of charred cooking residues encrusted on pottery. A multifaceted research strategy of bulk δ13C assays coupled with accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon data and microbotanical evidence can yield coherent regional maize use histories. Bulk δ13 C assay interpretation complications include (1) variations among…
The Archaeology of Death
Mortuary archaeology has always been viewed as one of the most richly evocative sources of evidence for past social systems, particularly those without writing. However, the political context within which archaeology developed as a discipline, especially in countries with a colonial past, has made it difficult or impossible for the burial record to be utilized to its full potential. Ironically, this moratorium on the use of human remains for rese…
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
This article refers to:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part I
View correction statement:Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology, Part I
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part III
Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part II
The progression of archaeology in the midcontinent over the past 40 years has moved on a series of different but overlapping fronts: regional, governmental, institutional, disciplinary, and personal. This collection of thoughts by both longtime and relatively young practitioners of our field suggests the many ways that archaeology has changed for the good"”and maybe not so good"”depending on our own experiences. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeol…
Microwear Analysis of Bipolar Tools From the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site (47je904)
Previous microwear analysis of a sample of artifacts from the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site has demonstrated that, in general, morphofunctional typology has limited value for the assessment of tool function at that site. The site is a small Oneota village (ad 1200–1400) near Lake Koshkonong in southeastern Wisconsin. Multiple data sets indicate a year round occupation, a subsistence regimen of maize agriculture and exploitation of a wide variety of…
Preliminary evidence for the efficacy of the Canine Surrogacy Approach in the Great Lakes
A Multi-Method Approach to Inferring Early Agriculturalists’ Stone Tool Use at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club Site
While there has been much research on the function of stone tools via use-wear analysis, it is clear that a multipronged approach, including an evaluation of material acquisition, production, and tool use, is necessary if tool function is going to prove truly useful for understanding past cultures. Moreover, the role of chipped lithic tools in the economies of agriculture-based populations has seen little research compared to preagricultural syst…
Assessing subsistence and its relationship to cultural complexity in the late prehistoric upper Midwest
OBJECTIVE: Previous researchers have assumed that the Late Prehistoric Oneota were less reliant on maize agriculture than their Middle Mississippian neighbors to the south. This assumption is based on the idea that intensive maize agriculture is related to sociopolitical complexity, and that the climate of the Great Lakes region was less conducive to full-scale agriculture than that of the American Bottom. Here, we assess the diet of the Oneota u…
Chronology for Mississippian and Oneota Occupations at Aztalan and the Lake Koshkonong Locality
The Middle Mississippian component at Aztalan was a mixed, Late Woodland / Mississippian occupation sited within a heavily fortified habitation and mound center that is located on a tributary of the Rock River in Wisconsin. It represents the northernmost large Cahokian-related village recorded. The Oneota Lake Koshkonong Locality of the Rock River drainage is located approximately 20 km south of Aztalan, and it consists of a 25 km2 area along the…
Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (14 works) · Geography (9 works) · History (9 works) · History (8 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (6 works) · Historical archaeology (5 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works)