The Paleoarchaic to Early Archaic Transition on the Colorado Plateau
The Archaeology of North Creek Shelter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2655554 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel C Janetski (0000-0001-6051-9865, Brigham Young University, corresponding author), Mark L Bodily (US Forest Service), Bradley A Newbold (Washington State University), David T Yoder (0009-0003-5948-4353) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 125-159 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7316 • E-ISSN: 2325-5064 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7183/0002-7316.77.1.125 |
| OpenAlex | W2328872658 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 32 |
Recent literature on Paleoarchaic and Early Archaic strategies in the arid west of North America has characterized the shift from the earlier to later period as constituting an adaptive discontinuity. The empirical bases for this conclusion are shifts in mobility, subsistence, and technology. Paleoarchaic peoples are described as highly mobile, focused on a diversity of animal resources, including birds and small game, and using more exotic toolstone, an aspect of mobility. In contrast, Early Archaic strategies are less mobile, yet more focused on large game, using more local toolstone, and adopting grinding tools presumably to process small seeds. Accompanying this transition is the shift from stemmed to notched projectile points. Data bearing on this transition on the Colorado Plateau have been scarce. Excavations of finely stratified deposits at North Creek Shelter on the Colorado Plateau in southern Utah have yielded support for the adaptive discontinuity position, although qualitative differences between the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau are apparent in mobility and faunal use
Agriculture · Archaeology · Arid · Colorado plateau · Excavation · Geography · Plateau (mathematics · Projectile point · Structural basin · Subsistence agriculture · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
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| Citations per year | 1,64 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |