The Portuguese Houses site is a fur trading post established in 1834 on Wyoming’s Powder River. Unlike many similar Rocky Mountain posts, Portuguese Houses has not been subjected to secondary use ...which can blur or destroy the fur trade occupation at the site. This characteristic combined with minimal modern surface disturbance means the site represents an excellent opportunity to yield significant fur trade era data. However, Portuguese Houses also presents a unique challenge. The private landowners are open to archaeological inquiry on the site, but request no digging take place on the locality. As such, all investigations at the Portuguese Houses site need to be non-invasive in nature. The initial geophysical investigations identified not only the palisade walls and intact activity areas within them, but also possible evidence of occupation outside the fort’s walls. These results demonstrate that further investigations are warranted.
Rendezvous and winter camps were central to the early Rocky Mountain fur trade. However, available research provides no estimate of the number of people in attendance. Knowledge of the size and ...demographic makeup of the mountain gatherings would facilitate research on camp socio-cultural dynamics, interpretation of the historic events, and identification of modern archeological sites. The present study estimates the number of people present at the early rendezvous and winter camps (1825-1830). The estimations support existing research that emphasizes Native people's involvement in the fur trade. For instance, of the 1550 estimated attendees at the 1827 rendezvous, the Native contingent comprised approximately 90% of the total. While it is commonly known that Native peoples attended and participated in the Rocky Mountain fur trade rendezvous, this research presents evidence that the Native presence often far outnumbered the traders and trappers in attendance.
Earth Resistance Tomography (ERT) is a geophysical prospecting technique that has the capacity to model subsurface sediments. This technique is applied at the Cave near Rovinjsko Selo 1 site which is ...in the Lim Channel, Croatia. ERT is used as a means for positively identifying a previous excavation trench location within site which, in turn, informs the excavation planning process. The potential benefits of this technique are discussed for future excavation planning efforts at Romuald’s Cave, another cave site location in the Lim Channel. While beneficial in this study, the technique’s utility will vary in other locations according to site conditions, amount of previous excavation activities, and age of earlier excavation activities which affects both the geophysical survey design and applicability of ERT to the specific site environment.
Rad donosi rezultate terenskog istraživanja u Ljubićevoj pećini kod Marčane u Istri, provedenog u 2019. godini. Tijekom terenskog rada provedeno je lasersko skeniranje dijela lokaliteta te ...geofizikalna mjerenja gornje etaže pećine. Navedena mjerenja poslužit će u svrhu kvalitetnijeg planiranja budućih sustavnih arheoloških istraživanja navedenog lokaliteta.
This paper presents the results of archaeological investigation conducted in the course of 2014 and 2015 at four sites in the Lim Channel area in Istria County. The investigation is part of the ...Croatian Science Foundation's archaeological investigations into the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene of the Lim Channel project (ARCHAEOLIM). The fieldwork was conducted at four locations: Romuald's Cave, Abri Kontija 002, Pecina Cave near Rovinjsko Selo, and Lim 001. Also conducted in 2015 was an underwater field survey of a part of Lim Channel, which included geoarchaeological sampling and geophysical measurement. Publication Abstract
Rad donosi rezultate arheoloških istraživanja na četiri lokaliteta napodručju Limskog kanala provedenih tijekom 2016. godine. Terenskaistraživanja dio su projekta “Arheološka istraživanja kasnog ...pleistocenai ranog holocena na prostoru Limskog kanala (ARCHAEOLIM)”financiranog od Hrvatske zaklade za znanost i provedena su na četirilokaliteta: Romualdovoj pećini, Abri Kontija 002, Pećini kod RovinjskogSela i Lim 001.
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Rad donosi rezultate arheoloških istraživanja provedenih u sklopu
projekta Hrvatske zaklade za znanost pod nazivom „Prapovijesni
lovci i sakupljači u Istri i obližnjim regijama: obrasci života
...tijekom kasnog pleistocena (PREHISTRIA)“ u sezoni 2021. kada
su provedena sustavna istraživanja Ljubićeve pećine kraj Marčane,
te Abri Kontije 002 u Limskom kanalu. U Ljubićevoj pećini
proširena je postojeća sonda u manjoj pećinskoj dvorani te su u
njoj otkriveni arheološki nalazi (keramika, litički nalazi, ljudski i
životinjski ostaci) iz različitih prapovijesnih razdoblja (brončano
doba, eneolitik, neolitik i paleolitik). Nadalje, provedena su i manja
sustavna istraživanja u postojećoj arheološkoj sondi na lokalitetu
Abri Kontija 002. Otkriveni su brojni litički i faunski nalazi
iz razdoblja gornjeg paleolitika. Na oba lokaliteta uzeti su uzorci
za radiometrijsko datiranje, analize sedimentne DNA, geoarheološke,
arheobotaničke i analize sirovinskog materijala, ZooMS te
druge vrste analiza. Analize ova dva nalazišta omogućit će bolje
razumijevanje gornjopaleolitičkih obrazaca ponašanja i korištenja
resursa tijekom posljednjeg glacijalnog maksimuma i kasnog
glacijala na prostoru Istre.
The general locations of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous have been known to historians through documentary evidence since the mid to late 1800s. While the approximate locations of the rendezvous sites ...provided through historic documents have sufficed for the placement of signs and markers commemorating these annual events, archaeologists seeking to learn more about the yearly gathering of mountain men and native peoples through excavations need a more precise area to begin their search on the landscape. The exact locations of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous are yet unknown in the sense of an archaeologist visiting a rendezvous site, trowel in hand, and hoping to unearth a small portion of fur trade history. In this study, I present a method for moving from the approximate locations for the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous sites provided by historic documents to identifying specific rendezvous archaeological sites through use of historic documents, geophysical survey, and GIS modeling. The first paper in this dissertation examines the demographics of the rendezvous. By use of historic documents, I present a method for estimating the number of people who may have been present at the rendezvous and winter camps from 1825 through 1829. By using this method for estimating people at the rendezvous, it becomes clear more native people were in attendance at the rendezvous and winter camps than trappers and traders of European descent. Once armed with the knowledge a rendezvous site should more closely resemble the archaeological signature of a Protohistoric native camp than a historic Euroamerican archaeological site, the search for a Protohistoric native camp to be mapped with geophysical survey instruments can begin. During this study, such a search resulted in the successful mapping of a portion of the camp surrounding a fur trading post on the banks of Powder River in east-central Wyoming. The final section in the dissertation will address the issue of where and how to focus a geophysical survey in hopes of finding the Protohistoric camp signature within the potential rendezvous locations identified in the historic documents. The study focuses on identifying potential survey areas along the Green River in western Wyoming considered highly probable to contain intact buried archaeological deposits dating to at least the early 1800s. A systematic survey is proposed focusing on areas not only identified through historic documentary research as being locations for the rendezvous, but also containing sediments holding intact deposits dating to the time of the fur trade.
Geoelektrična rezistentna tomografija (ERT) tehnika je geofizičkog istraživanja kojom se mogu kartirati dubinski sedimenti. Arheološki radovi u Velikoj pećini u Kličevici kod Zadra prigoda su za ...ispitivanje te tehnike u kontekstu aktivnih arheoloških istraživanja. Ispitivanje perspektivnosti ERT-a kao sredstva za modeliranje potpovršinskih sedimenata na tom pećinskom nalazištu započelo je 2013. godine, s ciljem utvrđivanja dubine sedimenata sve do žive stijene. Iako podaci iz Velike pećine u Kličevici dobiveni ERT-om nisu dali pouzdane rezultate, ta tehnika pokazuje perspektivnost s obzirom na daljnje ispitivanje i usavršavanje na pećinskim nalazištima, gdje informacije o dubini sedimenata mogu pomoći pri planiranju istraživanja.
