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Mark R Schurr

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ID3619218
NOMEMark R Schurr
PRENOMESMark R
SOBRENOMESchurr
ASSINATURASCHURR M R
AFILIAÇÕESUniversity of Notre Dame
ORCID0000-0001-6805-0184
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TOTAL DE OBRAS39
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES366
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PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1989
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2024
ÍNDICE H8
  • Chapter 8. Isotopic evidence for protohistoric field locations in northeastern Illinois

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Madeleine Mcleester•ARTICLE•Archeological Papers of the…•2024•Citada por: 1•Referências: 40

    In the western Great Lakes region of the United States, late prehistoric and early historic Indigenous fields are often difficult to investigate because their archaeological signatures are faint and easily destroyed. They have been identified largely via rare remnants of raised fields and historical records. With the majority of Indigenous fields destroyed, important aspects of cultivation remain ambiguous, especially the ecology of cultivated ar…

  • Modeling the Chronology of a Late Precontact Site Using Radiocarbon and Trade Good Dates

    J N Fenner, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    Late precontact- and contact-period sites often produce multiple sources of chronological information, including stratigraphy, radiocarbon dates, European trade goods, and pottery seriation patterns. In this article, we describe a step-by-step approach to incorporating such information in an OxCal-based Bayesian chronology model, with special emphasis on incorporating trade-good dating into radiocarbon-based modeling. The Middle Grant Creek site …

  • Dietary reconstruction based on stable isotopes and stature at Torre de Palma, a Late Roman/Late Antiquity site in southern Portugal

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Mary Lucas Powell et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological and Anthropological…•2023•Referências: 59

  • From Wet Lands to Dry Spaces (and Back Again)

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2022•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    The Kankakee River in the midcontinent of the United States was once home to one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Grand Kankakee Marsh, as well as countless smaller wetlands along its margins. Beginning in the mid nineteenth century, over 200,000 ha of the Marsh was drained along with an untold number of smaller wetlands. Yet, while wetlands were devalued in the nineteenth century, these ecosystems were prized hunting, plant collection, …

  • From the Mound to the Moon

    Open Access•Elizabeth Watts Malouchos, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2021•Citada por: 1•Referências: 22

  • A new approach to population

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Madeleine Mcleester et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological…•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 27

  • Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18 O/ 16 O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells

    Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2020•Citada por: 4•Referências: 12

    The cooling associated with the Little Ice Age (LIA) had differential severity across the globe. Within the American Midwest, the local impacts of this cooling have not been established. Our purpose here is to determine its local effects and establish the impacts on the environment encountered at a seventeenth century Native American village in Illinois, USA. We obtained oxygen and carbon stable isotope ratios of freshwater mussel shells from thi…

  • Evaluating ground‐penetrating radar antenna performance for investigating Mississippian mound construction compared with data from solid‐earth cores and magnetometry

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, G William Monaghan et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 7

    Mississippian mounds in the south‐eastern and mid‐continental United States often contain multiple construction stages and a diverse array of features. Investigating mound construction with excavation is expensive, logistically challenging, and sometimes politically impossible. Three mounds at the Angel site (12VG1), a Mississippian village ( ca ad 1100–1450) in the lower Ohio River Valley, were investigated with non‐invasive geophysical and mini…

  • Uncovering Huber Lifeways

    Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2020•Referências: 30

    This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Excavations and geophysical surveys conducted over the past four years are yielding valuable data that are expanding our understandings of this critical period just prior to European colonialism. Fi…

  • Uncovering Huber Lifeways

    Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 17

    This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Excavations and geophysical surveys conducted over the past four years are yielding valuable data that are expanding our understandings of this critical period just prior to European colonialism. Fi…

  • Protohistoric Marine Shell Working

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2019•Citada por: 2•Referências: 12

    In the US Midwest, the working of marine shell procured through vast trade networks has typically been associated with elite prestige economies and craft specialization at major Mississippian centers. Outside of these contexts, marine shell goods are often assumed to have been brought into communities as completed goods. A recent finding suggests that local, small-scale marine shell working occurred at an early seventeenth-century village in nort…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 11•Referências: 22

  • Multi-element and lead isotope characterization of early nineteenth century pottery sherds from Native American and Euro-American sites

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, P H Donohue et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

  • The chronology and environmental context of a cave deposit and associated faunal assemblage including megafauna teeth near Wee Jasper, southeastern Australia

    Open Access•Fenja Theden-Ringl, Kathleen P Hislop et al.•ARTICLE•The Holocene•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 8

    A limestone cave on the lower slopes of the southeastern Australian high country reveals a deep, stratified deposit dated from ca. 14,000 to 2000 cal. BP and rich in predominantly non-cultural faunal remains. Located in a sensitive ecological area between the Australian Alps and the Southern Tablelands, the site provides a valuable chronological archive for the interpretation of local environmental change using the faunal record as a proxy, in pa…

  • Exploring ideas about isotopic variation in breastfeeding and weaning within and between populations

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 35

    Infant feeding practices are partially constrained by the biological demands of infants and mothers but vary within those constraints based on factors such as subsistence practices, health, class and ethnic variations, and the presence or absence of foods that can be substituted for breastmilk. Over the past 20 years, nitrogen stable isotope ratios have been used to explore infant feeding practices in past populations. Recent studies have moved f…

  • Growth of a Village

    Open Access•Robert A Cook, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2018•Referências: 18

    Examining the formation histories of single-component prehistoric villages is difficult using only radiocarbon dating. This study investigates such a case with the added considerations of two relative dating techniques, artifact accumulation and fluoride dating, at the Guard site (12D29), an early (ca. AD 1000-1300) Fort Ancient/Mississippian village located in southeast Indiana. The goal was to assess the depositional history of the individual h…

  • The Upper Mississippian Occupation at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2017

    The Upper Mississippian Fisher/Huber occupations of northwestern Indiana are part of the easternmost extension of Oneota. Excavations at the Collier Lodge site (12PR36) found 18 Upper Mississippian features from a seasonal encampment on the edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The ceramic assemblage and radiocarbon dates indicate the site was created during the late fifteenth century, placing it in the northwestern Indiana temporal sequence between the pr…

  • The Upper Mississippian Occupation at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 7

    The Upper Mississippian Fisher/Huber occupations of northwestern Indiana are part of the easternmost extension of Oneota. Excavations at the Collier Lodge site (12PR36) found 18 Upper Mississippian features from a seasonal encampment on the edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The ceramic assemblage and radiocarbon dates indicate the site was created during the late fifteenth century, placing it in the northwestern Indiana temporal sequence between the pr…

  • Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part II

    Scott Anfinson, Scott F Anfinson et al.•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2015•Referências: 10

    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…

  • Intergroup variation in stable isotope ratios reflects anthropogenic impact on the Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, A Fuentes et al.•ARTICLE•Primates•2012

  • Timing the Neolithic transition

    Open Access•Eloi Guerrero, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

  • Archaeological Indices of Resistance

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2010•Citada por: 5•Referências: 21

    Dichotomies or bipolar scales usually provide the conceptual framework for discussions of historic period Native American cultural change in the western Great Lakes. Archaeological and historical studies of Removal period (A.D. 1795-1840) Potawatomi of northern Indiana and southern Michigan provide challenges to common dichotomous frameworks used to define identity, political affiliation, geographic location, or other attributes of individual Pot…

  • Human Subsistence at Moundville

    Margaret J Schoeninger, Mark R Schurr•CHAPTER•Archaeology of the Moundville…•2009

  • A Test for Maize Consumption by Fauna in Late Prehistoric Eastern North America

    Open Access•Sheena A Ketchum, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•North American Archaeologist•2009•Citada por: 3•Referências: 18

    It has been suggested that some animals eaten by late prehistoric populations of eastern North America were pest species that consumed maize. This could lead to over-estimates of amounts of maize that were directly consumed in prehistoric human diets. Stable carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios of collagen from white-tailed deer and raccoon bones from the Late Archaic Indian Knoll and Middle Mississippian Angel sites are compared. The stable isoto…

  • Excavations in the Santa Cruz Floodplain

    David A Gregory, Michelle N Stevens et al.•Citada por: 1

    The current volume, the third of four, acts as a final report for the excavations that were conducted at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) in the fall of 1998. Hoping to build on earlier work conducted by Desert Archaeology at other Early Agricultural period sites along the Santa Cruz, these volumes combine data with those from both seasons at Los Pozos and those garnered from Las Capas to explore the implications of this total body of work for curren…

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  • Using stable nitrogen-isotopes to study weaning behavior in past populations

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1998•Citada por: 110•Referências: 34

    Several different methods have been used to explore weaning behavior in past populations, including demographic profiles, non‐specific osteological indicators of stress, and bone chemistry studies. Stable nitrogen‐isotope ratios of prehistoric bone proteins provide an especially useful method for reconstructing the weaning patterns of archaeological populations. A demographic measure of fertility (the D30+/D5+ ratio) is compared with age‐related …

  • Stable Nitrogen Isotopes as Evidence for the Age of Weaning at the Angel Site

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•1997•Citada por: 77

    Stable N-isotope ratios are used to estimate the age of weaning in the prehistoric (ad1300–1450) population that inhabited the Angel site, a Middle Mississippian civic–ceremonial centre in the lower Ohio Valley. The high proportion of infants in the Angel skeletal series appears to reflect high rates of infant mortality associated with weaning within this sedentary society of maize agriculturalists. Age-related variations in stable N-isotope rati…

  • The role of changing childhood diets in the prehistoric evolution of food production

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Mary Lucas Powell•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2005•Citada por: 32•Referências: 50

    Earlier weaning has often been suggested as a cause for population growth after the evolution of food production. However, evidence for weaning‐time reduction is largely circumstantial. Collagen stable nitrogen‐ and carbon‐isotope ratios from juvenile and adult burials from four sites in eastern North America were measured to estimate weaning onsets and durations before and after the appearance of intensive food production. Two preagricultural La…

  • Eating between the Lines

    Open Access•Robert A Cook, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2009•Citada por: 29•Referências: 68

    Appreciating variation along the edges of traditional archaeological Culture Historical boundaries requires close consideration of social contexts associated with culture contact. We focus on dietary variation as a function of these concerns through a case study of Fort Ancient populations who, on average, consumed lower quantities of maize than their Mississippian neighbors as determined by stable carbon isotope ratios of bone collagen. However,…

  • Isotopic and Mortuary Variability in a Middle Mississippian Population

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•1992•Citada por: 24•Referências: 34

    Stable-isotopic studies of prehistoric diet have usually confined discussions of isotopic variability within populations to sex-related differences in diet and have rarely considered other social or cultural sources of dietary variation. Extant data from eastern North America suggest that isotopic variation (and hence dietary variation) may have been greatest within the relatively complex Middle Mississippian societies of the late prehistoric per…

  • Fluoride Dating of Faunal Materials by Ion-Selective Electrode

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, David A Gregory•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2002•Citada por: 17•Referências: 13

    When the fluoride content of bone is measured with an ion-selective electrode, and when the technique is correctly applied, fluoride dating is a very economical method for developing fine-scale relative chronologies. It has been successfully used to develop relative chronologies for prehistoric human burials and fossilized bones throughout the world, but its much greater potential for the dating of unfossilized faunal materials has been neglected…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 11•Referências: 22

  • Stable carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios and electron spin resonance (ESR) g-values of charred bones

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Robert G Hayes•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 5

  • Fluoride dating of prehistoric bones by ion selective electrode

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•1989•Citada por: 8•Referências: 1

  • Evaluating ground‐penetrating radar antenna performance for investigating Mississippian mound construction compared with data from solid‐earth cores and magnetometry

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, G William Monaghan et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•2020•Citada por: 6•Referências: 7

    Mississippian mounds in the south‐eastern and mid‐continental United States often contain multiple construction stages and a diverse array of features. Investigating mound construction with excavation is expensive, logistically challenging, and sometimes politically impossible. Three mounds at the Angel site (12VG1), a Mississippian village ( ca ad 1100–1450) in the lower Ohio River Valley, were investigated with non‐invasive geophysical and mini…

  • Archaeological Indices of Resistance

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2010•Citada por: 5•Referências: 21

    Dichotomies or bipolar scales usually provide the conceptual framework for discussions of historic period Native American cultural change in the western Great Lakes. Archaeological and historical studies of Removal period (A.D. 1795-1840) Potawatomi of northern Indiana and southern Michigan provide challenges to common dichotomous frameworks used to define identity, political affiliation, geographic location, or other attributes of individual Pot…

  • A new approach to population

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Madeleine Mcleester et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological…•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 27

  • Paleoclimate of the Little Ice Age to the Present in the Kankakee Valley of Illinois and Indiana, USA Based on 18 O/ 16 O Isotope Ratios of Freshwater Shells

    Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Archaeology•2020•Citada por: 4•Referências: 12

    The cooling associated with the Little Ice Age (LIA) had differential severity across the globe. Within the American Midwest, the local impacts of this cooling have not been established. Our purpose here is to determine its local effects and establish the impacts on the environment encountered at a seventeenth century Native American village in Illinois, USA. We obtained oxygen and carbon stable isotope ratios of freshwater mussel shells from thi…

  • Timing the Neolithic transition

    Open Access•Eloi Guerrero, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

  • Uncovering Huber Lifeways

    Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2020•Citada por: 3•Referências: 17

    This article reports on recent findings from the ongoing archaeological project at the single- component early seventeenth-century Huber phase site, Middle Grant Creek (11WI2739), located at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie in Will County, Illinois. Excavations and geophysical surveys conducted over the past four years are yielding valuable data that are expanding our understandings of this critical period just prior to European colonialism. Fi…

  • A Test for Maize Consumption by Fauna in Late Prehistoric Eastern North America

    Open Access•Sheena A Ketchum, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•North American Archaeologist•2009•Citada por: 3•Referências: 18

    It has been suggested that some animals eaten by late prehistoric populations of eastern North America were pest species that consumed maize. This could lead to over-estimates of amounts of maize that were directly consumed in prehistoric human diets. Stable carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios of collagen from white-tailed deer and raccoon bones from the Late Archaic Indian Knoll and Middle Mississippian Angel sites are compared. The stable isoto…

  • Modeling the Chronology of a Late Precontact Site Using Radiocarbon and Trade Good Dates

    J N Fenner, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2023•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    Late precontact- and contact-period sites often produce multiple sources of chronological information, including stratigraphy, radiocarbon dates, European trade goods, and pottery seriation patterns. In this article, we describe a step-by-step approach to incorporating such information in an OxCal-based Bayesian chronology model, with special emphasis on incorporating trade-good dating into radiocarbon-based modeling. The Middle Grant Creek site …

  • From Wet Lands to Dry Spaces (and Back Again)

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Wetland Archaeology•2022•Citada por: 2•Referências: 15

    The Kankakee River in the midcontinent of the United States was once home to one of the largest wetlands in the world, the Grand Kankakee Marsh, as well as countless smaller wetlands along its margins. Beginning in the mid nineteenth century, over 200,000 ha of the Marsh was drained along with an untold number of smaller wetlands. Yet, while wetlands were devalued in the nineteenth century, these ecosystems were prized hunting, plant collection, …

  • Protohistoric Marine Shell Working

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2019•Citada por: 2•Referências: 12

    In the US Midwest, the working of marine shell procured through vast trade networks has typically been associated with elite prestige economies and craft specialization at major Mississippian centers. Outside of these contexts, marine shell goods are often assumed to have been brought into communities as completed goods. A recent finding suggests that local, small-scale marine shell working occurred at an early seventeenth-century village in nort…

  • Multi-element and lead isotope characterization of early nineteenth century pottery sherds from Native American and Euro-American sites

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, P H Donohue et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

  • The chronology and environmental context of a cave deposit and associated faunal assemblage including megafauna teeth near Wee Jasper, southeastern Australia

    Open Access•Fenja Theden-Ringl, Kathleen P Hislop et al.•ARTICLE•The Holocene•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 8

    A limestone cave on the lower slopes of the southeastern Australian high country reveals a deep, stratified deposit dated from ca. 14,000 to 2000 cal. BP and rich in predominantly non-cultural faunal remains. Located in a sensitive ecological area between the Australian Alps and the Southern Tablelands, the site provides a valuable chronological archive for the interpretation of local environmental change using the faunal record as a proxy, in pa…

  • Exploring ideas about isotopic variation in breastfeeding and weaning within and between populations

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 35

    Infant feeding practices are partially constrained by the biological demands of infants and mothers but vary within those constraints based on factors such as subsistence practices, health, class and ethnic variations, and the presence or absence of foods that can be substituted for breastmilk. Over the past 20 years, nitrogen stable isotope ratios have been used to explore infant feeding practices in past populations. Recent studies have moved f…

  • The Upper Mississippian Occupation at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 7

    The Upper Mississippian Fisher/Huber occupations of northwestern Indiana are part of the easternmost extension of Oneota. Excavations at the Collier Lodge site (12PR36) found 18 Upper Mississippian features from a seasonal encampment on the edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The ceramic assemblage and radiocarbon dates indicate the site was created during the late fifteenth century, placing it in the northwestern Indiana temporal sequence between the pr…

  • Untangling Removal Period Archaeology

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 3

    The brief span of the Removal period saw the demise of the fur trade and development of new ways of life as Native Americans adapted to dramatic economic, social, political, and ecological changes. Archaeological studies of this period present special challenges caused by the remarkable diversity of human behavior in both time and space. Investigations of Potawatomi Removal period sites in the Midwest highlight the diversity of Potawatomi respons…

  • Excavations in the Santa Cruz Floodplain

    David A Gregory, Michelle N Stevens et al.•Citada por: 1

    The current volume, the third of four, acts as a final report for the excavations that were conducted at Los Pozos, AZ AA:12:91 (ASM) in the fall of 1998. Hoping to build on earlier work conducted by Desert Archaeology at other Early Agricultural period sites along the Santa Cruz, these volumes combine data with those from both seasons at Los Pozos and those garnered from Las Capas to explore the implications of this total body of work for curren…

  • Fluoride dating of prehistoric bones by ion selective electrode

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•1989•Citada por: 8•Referências: 1

  • Isotopic and Mortuary Variability in a Middle Mississippian Population

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•1992•Citada por: 24•Referências: 34

    Stable-isotopic studies of prehistoric diet have usually confined discussions of isotopic variability within populations to sex-related differences in diet and have rarely considered other social or cultural sources of dietary variation. Extant data from eastern North America suggest that isotopic variation (and hence dietary variation) may have been greatest within the relatively complex Middle Mississippian societies of the late prehistoric per…

  • Associations between Agricultural Intensification and Social Complexity

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Margaret J Schoeninger•ARTICLE•Journal of Anthropological…•1995

    Many different theories have been advanced to explain the existence of non-state complex societies (often described as chiefdoms). Explanations of the appearance or decline of chiefdoms have historically emphasized the relations between a society's productive base and its social organization, but more recently, studies of the dynamics of chiefdoms have shifted away from economic or material explanations. This study examines the relationship betwe…

  • Using the concept of the learning curve to increase the productivity of geophysical surveys

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Archaeological Prospection•1997

    Geophysical techniques offer many advantages and should be part of the common practice of field archaeology. However, geophysical instruments are useful only when they are operated correctly and efficiently. New or potential users want to obtain effective results as rapidly as possible and experienced users are constantly seeking to improve the results of geophysical surveys. The concept of the learning curve can be used to develop techniques and…

  • Stable Nitrogen Isotopes as Evidence for the Age of Weaning at the Angel Site

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•1997•Citada por: 77

    Stable N-isotope ratios are used to estimate the age of weaning in the prehistoric (ad1300–1450) population that inhabited the Angel site, a Middle Mississippian civic–ceremonial centre in the lower Ohio Valley. The high proportion of infants in the Angel skeletal series appears to reflect high rates of infant mortality associated with weaning within this sedentary society of maize agriculturalists. Age-related variations in stable N-isotope rati…

  • Using stable nitrogen-isotopes to study weaning behavior in past populations

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•World Archaeology•1998•Citada por: 110•Referências: 34

    Several different methods have been used to explore weaning behavior in past populations, including demographic profiles, non‐specific osteological indicators of stress, and bone chemistry studies. Stable nitrogen‐isotope ratios of prehistoric bone proteins provide an especially useful method for reconstructing the weaning patterns of archaeological populations. A demographic measure of fertility (the D30+/D5+ ratio) is compared with age‐related …

  • The Thermal History of Maize Kernels Determined By Electron Spin Resonance

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, R Hayes et al.•ARTICLE•Archaeometry•2001•Citada por: 1

    Electron spin resonance (ESR) can be used to determine the thermal history of charred organic material. Maize seeds were heated under controlled conditions in order to produce calibration curves relating g‐values (the rate of electron splitting) and spin intensities (the number of spin centres) to heating temperatures, times and conditions. These experiments reproduced results that had been previously obtained by other laboratories, with some min…

  • Fluoride Dating of Faunal Materials by Ion-Selective Electrode

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, David A Gregory•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2002•Citada por: 17•Referências: 13

    When the fluoride content of bone is measured with an ion-selective electrode, and when the technique is correctly applied, fluoride dating is a very economical method for developing fine-scale relative chronologies. It has been successfully used to develop relative chronologies for prehistoric human burials and fossilized bones throughout the world, but its much greater potential for the dating of unfossilized faunal materials has been neglected…

  • Dhra', Excavation Project, 2002 Interim Report

    B Finlayson, I Kuijt et al.•ARTICLE•Levant•2003

    This is an interim report on the second season of fieldwork and post-excavation analysis on the Pottery Neolithic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic site of Dhra', near the southern end of the Dead Sea in Jordan. Excavations to date have produced rich assemblages of pottery and lithics. In addition sets of features that can be attributed to each phase have been identified. Those from the PPNA are generally better preserved than those of the Pottery Neolit…

  • The role of changing childhood diets in the prehistoric evolution of food production

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Mary Lucas Powell•ARTICLE•American Journal of Physical…•2005•Citada por: 32•Referências: 50

    Earlier weaning has often been suggested as a cause for population growth after the evolution of food production. However, evidence for weaning‐time reduction is largely circumstantial. Collagen stable nitrogen‐ and carbon‐isotope ratios from juvenile and adult burials from four sites in eastern North America were measured to estimate weaning onsets and durations before and after the appearance of intensive food production. Two preagricultural La…

  • How the Pokagon Band Avoided Removal

    Mark R Schurr, Terrance J Martin et al.•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2006•Citada por: 1•Referências: 1

    The Removal period is the time between the Treaty of Greenville in A.D. 1795 and the final expulsion of most Potawatomi from Michigan and Indiana by 1840. It was a time of rapid social change, when Native Americans developed many different adaptive strategies that are revealed by great cultural diversity in time and space. Archaeological investigations of the Pokagon Village site (20BE13) have provided new insights into the strategies that the wk…

  • Untangling Removal Period Archaeology

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2006•Citada por: 2•Referências: 3

    The brief span of the Removal period saw the demise of the fur trade and development of new ways of life as Native Americans adapted to dramatic economic, social, political, and ecological changes. Archaeological studies of this period present special challenges caused by the remarkable diversity of human behavior in both time and space. Investigations of Potawatomi Removal period sites in the Midwest highlight the diversity of Potawatomi respons…

  • Stable carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios and electron spin resonance (ESR) g-values of charred bones

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, Robert G Hayes•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2008•Citada por: 8•Referências: 5

  • Human Subsistence at Moundville

    Margaret J Schoeninger, Mark R Schurr•CHAPTER•Archaeology of the Moundville…•2009

  • A Test for Maize Consumption by Fauna in Late Prehistoric Eastern North America

    Open Access•Sheena A Ketchum, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•North American Archaeologist•2009•Citada por: 3•Referências: 18

    It has been suggested that some animals eaten by late prehistoric populations of eastern North America were pest species that consumed maize. This could lead to over-estimates of amounts of maize that were directly consumed in prehistoric human diets. Stable carbon- and nitrogen-isotope ratios of collagen from white-tailed deer and raccoon bones from the Late Archaic Indian Knoll and Middle Mississippian Angel sites are compared. The stable isoto…

  • Eating between the Lines

    Open Access•Robert A Cook, Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Anthropologist•2009•Citada por: 29•Referências: 68

    Appreciating variation along the edges of traditional archaeological Culture Historical boundaries requires close consideration of social contexts associated with culture contact. We focus on dietary variation as a function of these concerns through a case study of Fort Ancient populations who, on average, consumed lower quantities of maize than their Mississippian neighbors as determined by stable carbon isotope ratios of bone collagen. However,…

  • Archaeological Indices of Resistance

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•American Antiquity•2010•Citada por: 5•Referências: 21

    Dichotomies or bipolar scales usually provide the conceptual framework for discussions of historic period Native American cultural change in the western Great Lakes. Archaeological and historical studies of Removal period (A.D. 1795-1840) Potawatomi of northern Indiana and southern Michigan provide challenges to common dichotomous frameworks used to define identity, political affiliation, geographic location, or other attributes of individual Pot…

  • Timing the Neolithic transition

    Open Access•Eloi Guerrero, Mark R Schurr et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science•2011•Citada por: 4•Referências: 5

  • Intergroup variation in stable isotope ratios reflects anthropogenic impact on the Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus) of Gibraltar

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, A Fuentes et al.•ARTICLE•Primates•2012

  • Sense and Sensibility in Midwestern Archaeology and the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology , Part II

    Scott Anfinson, Scott F Anfinson et al.•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2015•Referências: 10

    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…

  • The Upper Mississippian Occupation at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2017

    The Upper Mississippian Fisher/Huber occupations of northwestern Indiana are part of the easternmost extension of Oneota. Excavations at the Collier Lodge site (12PR36) found 18 Upper Mississippian features from a seasonal encampment on the edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The ceramic assemblage and radiocarbon dates indicate the site was created during the late fifteenth century, placing it in the northwestern Indiana temporal sequence between the pr…

  • The Upper Mississippian Occupation at the Collier Lodge Site (12PR36)

    Mark R Schurr•ARTICLE•Midcontinental Journal of…•2017•Citada por: 2•Referências: 7

    The Upper Mississippian Fisher/Huber occupations of northwestern Indiana are part of the easternmost extension of Oneota. Excavations at the Collier Lodge site (12PR36) found 18 Upper Mississippian features from a seasonal encampment on the edge of the Kankakee Marsh. The ceramic assemblage and radiocarbon dates indicate the site was created during the late fifteenth century, placing it in the northwestern Indiana temporal sequence between the pr…

  • Detecting prehistoric landscape features using thermal, multispectral, and historical imagery analysis at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie, Illinois

    Open Access•Madeleine Mcleester, J Casana et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 11•Referências: 22

  • Multi-element and lead isotope characterization of early nineteenth century pottery sherds from Native American and Euro-American sites

    Open Access•Mark R Schurr, P H Donohue et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Archaeological Science…•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 10

  • The chronology and environmental context of a cave deposit and associated faunal assemblage including megafauna teeth near Wee Jasper, southeastern Australia

    Open Access•Fenja Theden-Ringl, Kathleen P Hislop et al.•ARTICLE•The Holocene•2018•Citada por: 2•Referências: 8

    A limestone cave on the lower slopes of the southeastern Australian high country reveals a deep, stratified deposit dated from ca. 14,000 to 2000 cal. BP and rich in predominantly non-cultural faunal remains. Located in a sensitive ecological area between the Australian Alps and the Southern Tablelands, the site provides a valuable chronological archive for the interpretation of local environmental change using the faunal record as a proxy, in pa…

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