Madeline E Mackie
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4053420 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Madeline E Mackie |
| PRENOMES | Madeline E |
| SOBRENOME | Mackie |
| ASSINATURA | MACKIE M E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wyoming |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0769-2348 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
Reconstructing proboscidean diet and mobility during the Younger Dryas through isotopic evidence from the Colby site, Wyoming, USA
Identifying and Investigating Deeply Buried Activity Areas at the La Prele Site
Before 2023, excavations at the La Prele site identified three hearth-centered areas associated with mammoth remains. In 2022 and 2023, more than 150 augers across the site suggested the presence of a bone bed and a fourth activity area with the potential for dense archaeological deposits. Here we report preliminary results comparing the expected versus actual artifact densities to evaluate the use of auger surveys for identifying artifact cluste…
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site
An incised travertine artifact from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an…
The Geochronological and Geoarchaeological Context of the Clovis-Age La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
The La Prele Mammoth site (48CO1401), located in Converse County, Wyoming, contains a Clovis-age occupation associated with the remains of a subadult mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). In this paper, we present the geochronological and geoarchaeological context of the site. The La Prele Mammoth site is buried in an alluvial terrace of La Prele Creek, a tributary of the North Platte River, which acts as an important migration corridor through the Rocky …
Rapid increase in production of symbolic artifacts after 45,000 years ago is not a consequence of taphonomic bias
Plants and Subsistence during the Fluted-Point Period of the Northeast
The role of plant foods during the fluted-point period (FPP) of North America is contested. Central to this debate is whether the scarcity of FPP macrobotanical materials stems from poor preservation of archaeological features and the macrobotanical remains they might contain or from the limited use of plants during the FPP. Employing summed probability distributions of radiocarbon date frequencies in northeastern North America, we find that FPP …
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
A Newly Identified Younger Dryas Component in Eagle Cave, Texas
Recent excavations by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project of Texas State University sampled a previously undocumented Younger Dryas component from Eagle Cave in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. This stratified assemblage consists of bison (Bison antiquus) bones in association with lithic artifacts and a hearth. Bayesian modeling yields an age of 12,660-12,480 cal BP, and analyses indicate behaviors associated with the processing of a juvenil…
Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America
The extent to which Clovis peoples hunted proboscideans is debated. Convention requires that for a proboscidean butchery site to be accepted, contemporaneous artifacts must be spatially associated with faunal remains, and there must be evidence of use of the remains. Fourteen sites in North America currently meet those criteria; at least 31 do not. While these are reasonable requirements for avoiding false positives, such an approach risks identi…
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…
Long-distance transport of red ocher by Clovis foragers
The Wold Bison Jump (48JO966) and its relation to the ancestral Crow on the Northwest Plains
We report results from excavations at the Wold Bison Jump (Wold, site number 48JO966), a Late Prehistoric (ca. 300–500 BP) bison jump located in the southeast foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. We argue that (a) the site was created by the ancestral Crow based on its location, age, material culture, and hunting technique and (b) the jump at Wold triggered a large rock fall event, as evidenced by the presence of articulated bison remains…
Identifying Stone Alignments Created by Adults and Children
Estimating age and sex
Brackish water foraging
Brackish water foraging
Long-distance transport of red ocher by Clovis foragers
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…
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
Estimating age and sex
Rapid increase in production of symbolic artifacts after 45,000 years ago is not a consequence of taphonomic bias
Plants and Subsistence during the Fluted-Point Period of the Northeast
The role of plant foods during the fluted-point period (FPP) of North America is contested. Central to this debate is whether the scarcity of FPP macrobotanical materials stems from poor preservation of archaeological features and the macrobotanical remains they might contain or from the limited use of plants during the FPP. Employing summed probability distributions of radiocarbon date frequencies in northeastern North America, we find that FPP …
The Wold Bison Jump (48JO966) and its relation to the ancestral Crow on the Northwest Plains
We report results from excavations at the Wold Bison Jump (Wold, site number 48JO966), a Late Prehistoric (ca. 300–500 BP) bison jump located in the southeast foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. We argue that (a) the site was created by the ancestral Crow based on its location, age, material culture, and hunting technique and (b) the jump at Wold triggered a large rock fall event, as evidenced by the presence of articulated bison remains…
Brackish water foraging
Identifying Stone Alignments Created by Adults and Children
Estimating age and sex
Long-distance transport of red ocher by Clovis foragers
The Wold Bison Jump (48JO966) and its relation to the ancestral Crow on the Northwest Plains
We report results from excavations at the Wold Bison Jump (Wold, site number 48JO966), a Late Prehistoric (ca. 300–500 BP) bison jump located in the southeast foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming. We argue that (a) the site was created by the ancestral Crow based on its location, age, material culture, and hunting technique and (b) the jump at Wold triggered a large rock fall event, as evidenced by the presence of articulated bison remains…
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…
Estimating the frequency of coincidental spatial associations between Clovis artifacts and proboscidean remains in North America
The extent to which Clovis peoples hunted proboscideans is debated. Convention requires that for a proboscidean butchery site to be accepted, contemporaneous artifacts must be spatially associated with faunal remains, and there must be evidence of use of the remains. Fourteen sites in North America currently meet those criteria; at least 31 do not. While these are reasonable requirements for avoiding false positives, such an approach risks identi…
Plants and Subsistence during the Fluted-Point Period of the Northeast
The role of plant foods during the fluted-point period (FPP) of North America is contested. Central to this debate is whether the scarcity of FPP macrobotanical materials stems from poor preservation of archaeological features and the macrobotanical remains they might contain or from the limited use of plants during the FPP. Employing summed probability distributions of radiocarbon date frequencies in northeastern North America, we find that FPP …
A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States
From 2014 to 2020, we compiled radiocarbon ages from the lower 48 states, creating a database of more than 100,000 archaeological, geological, and paleontological ages that will be freely available to researchers through the Canadian Archaeological Radiocarbon Database. Here, we discuss the process used to compile ages, general characteristics of the database, and lessons learned from this exercise in 'big data' compilation
A Newly Identified Younger Dryas Component in Eagle Cave, Texas
Recent excavations by the Ancient Southwest Texas Project of Texas State University sampled a previously undocumented Younger Dryas component from Eagle Cave in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas. This stratified assemblage consists of bison (Bison antiquus) bones in association with lithic artifacts and a hearth. Bayesian modeling yields an age of 12,660-12,480 cal BP, and analyses indicate behaviors associated with the processing of a juvenil…
The Geochronological and Geoarchaeological Context of the Clovis-Age La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming
The La Prele Mammoth site (48CO1401), located in Converse County, Wyoming, contains a Clovis-age occupation associated with the remains of a subadult mammoth (Mammuthus columbi). In this paper, we present the geochronological and geoarchaeological context of the site. The La Prele Mammoth site is buried in an alluvial terrace of La Prele Creek, a tributary of the North Platte River, which acts as an important migration corridor through the Rocky …
Rapid increase in production of symbolic artifacts after 45,000 years ago is not a consequence of taphonomic bias
Estimating the Size and Density of the La Prele Site
An incised travertine artifact from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming
The Barnes Stone is an incised stone artifact found at the base of a roadcut along Red Springs Draw in the southern Bighorn Basin of Wyoming by Jeb Barnes, an avocational archaeologist from Thermopolis, Wyoming. We initially and erroneously identified this artifact as a modified piece of mammoth ivory. In this paper, we not only correct that identification but also report on the results of fieldwork and radiocarbon dating at the find locality, an…
Identifying and Investigating Deeply Buried Activity Areas at the La Prele Site
Before 2023, excavations at the La Prele site identified three hearth-centered areas associated with mammoth remains. In 2022 and 2023, more than 150 augers across the site suggested the presence of a bone bed and a fourth activity area with the potential for dense archaeological deposits. Here we report preliminary results comparing the expected versus actual artifact densities to evaluate the use of auger surveys for identifying artifact cluste…
Targeted explorations of Pleistocene-Holocene transition archaeology on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah
Anthropogenic burning of small mammals at the Early Paleoindian La Prele Site in Converse County, Wyoming
Reconstructing proboscidean diet and mobility during the Younger Dryas through isotopic evidence from the Colby site, Wyoming, USA
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (17 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (17 obras) · Archaeology (12 obras) · Geography (12 obras) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (8 obras) · Biology (6 obras) · Geology (6 obras) · Geology (4 obras) · Paleontology (4 obras) · Pleistocene (4 obras)