Raven's Nest (48SU3871)
A late prehistoric/Shoshone lithic tool and pottery-making site in Southwestern Wyoming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9217200 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David V Hill (Metropolitan State University of Denver, corresponding author), David Wolfe (Current Archaeological Research, Inc., Rock Springs, WY, USA), David W Wolfe (0000-0002-3131-3830) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 241 |
| Pages | 67-94 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00320447.2016.1180022 |
| OpenAlex | W2513410863 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
Early Archaic to Historic occupations were unearthed during excavations at the Raven's Nest (48SU3871). Excavation of 135 1 × 1 m units in 15 discrete areas within Raven's Nest resulted in the recovery of over 21,000 pieces of debitage, over 9000 faunal specimens, over 1100 prehistoric sherds and over 300 tools, including ca. 50 projectile points with the primary occupations occurring during the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic Periods. The Raven's Nest site likely functioned as a locality where stone tools and ceramics were produced by Numic-speaking peoples most likely the Shoshone. The predominance of three types of locally available tool stone in the lithic assemblage and their presence as raw material, flakes and finished tools indicates are indicative of stone tool production. On-site pottery-making activities at the Raven's Nest were identified by the large ceramic assemblage recovered from the site, the paste of the majority of the ceramics contain the same minerals that are present in the local clays and outcrops as determined through petrographic analysis, the presence of kiln wasters, and the recovery of a vessel form made using local clay that is not documented in ethnographies of the Shoshone
Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology) · Debitage · Excavation · Geography · Midden · Nest (protein structural motif) · Petrography · Pottery · Prehistory · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern Pottery Analysis
Ceramic theory and cultural process
Ceramics Before Farming
Ceramics for the Archaeologist
Materializing Identities
Plain-Ware Ceramics and Residential Mobility
The Archaeology of Ethnicity
Gateways for Athabascan Migration to the American Southwest
Plains Anthropologist
Bison Remains from the Rex Rodgers Site
The Shoshonean Migration Problem
The Carter Site in Northwestern Plains Prehistory
The frequency and typology of ceramic sites in western Wyoming
Surfing Behind the Wave
Ceramics from the Firehole Basin Site and Firehole Phase in the Wyoming Basin
Evaluating the Contemporaneity of Households at the Eden-Farson site
Technology and Style
Temper Identification
Ceramic Variety, Type Cluster, and Ceramic System in Southwestern Pottery Analysis
North American Cooking Pots
The Principle of Analogous Pottery Types
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |