An archaeological field school was jointly operated by the Missouri Archaeological Society (MAS) and the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (UTK) at the Brown Lodge/Caldwell Pottery Site (23SA451) in Arrow Rock, Missouri between July 14 and August 8, 1997. The field school Read More …
The irrigation system in San Antonio was an integral part of its early history. Within the San Antonio area irrigation was a necessity to extend the planting season. An extended planting season would allow for diversified crops with different harvesting Read More …
The site is especially significant because it is the first dated occurrence of Oxbow components in Montana. Furthermore, the occupations span the millenia of notable climatic change from late Altithermal to Medithermal conditions. Informative paleoenvironmental data enhance the archeological results. Read More …
It came as a great surprise to me that archaeological excavations are not done merely to collect artifacts. They are sometimes done when a site is in danger of being destroyed by a commercial, state or federal development, and they Read More …
Despite advocacy of landscape approaches in cultural resource management (CRM) and critiques of the site concept, CRM data collection methods in the western United States continue to focus on individual archaeological sites as units of observation, analysis, and management. The Read More …