Optimal Foraging Theory has received considerable intellectual criticism since its use as an archaeological tool for understanding human behavior. In this thesis, I will evaluate Optimal Foraging Theory with an empirical test from North Creek Shelter, an archaeological site located in the Escalante Basin on the northern portion of the Colorado Plateau. This test will focus on plant utilization by the early Archaic occupants of the site. An environmental reconstruction for the Escalante Basin will be used to determine the range and quantity of plant resources available to the early Archaic occupants of North Creek Shelter. Then a botanical assemblage collected during excavation at North Creek Shelter in 2006 will be evaluated in conjunction ...
New analytical techniques in archaeobotany allow researchers to examine human plant use by developin...
North American archaeologists researching Paleoindian adaptations have suggested that Paleoindians, ...
Many plant fragments recovered from two pre-ceramic rock shelters occupied some 3000 or more years a...
In this study, optimal foraging theory is used to evaluate hunting and butchering practices as well ...
In this paper, optimal foraging theory is used to interpret wild plant collecting behaviors using ex...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014This research examines the ecology of human diet using...
The Piute Valley of Southern Nevada is an incredibly diverse but arid zone in the eastern portion of...
Complementary archaeological and paleoenvironmental datasets from North Creek Shelter (Colorado Plat...
Dust Cave, located in northern Alabama, was occupied seasonally for approximately 7,000 years, spann...
Vegetal remains from radiocarbon-dated ancient packrat middens were used to develop an early and mid...
This thesis aims to integrate the study of population change with the expectations of foraging model...
Sediment samples were collected from 3 rock shelter sites and one natural pond on the Upper Cumberla...
The 2011 Carroll College Archaeological Field School conducted an exploratory excavation within the ...
This work examines the faunal subsistence practices at Lake Roberts Vista, a small Mimbres pueblo wi...
The general architectural transition from semi-subterranean pithouses to surface pueblos that occurr...
New analytical techniques in archaeobotany allow researchers to examine human plant use by developin...
North American archaeologists researching Paleoindian adaptations have suggested that Paleoindians, ...
Many plant fragments recovered from two pre-ceramic rock shelters occupied some 3000 or more years a...
In this study, optimal foraging theory is used to evaluate hunting and butchering practices as well ...
In this paper, optimal foraging theory is used to interpret wild plant collecting behaviors using ex...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2014This research examines the ecology of human diet using...
The Piute Valley of Southern Nevada is an incredibly diverse but arid zone in the eastern portion of...
Complementary archaeological and paleoenvironmental datasets from North Creek Shelter (Colorado Plat...
Dust Cave, located in northern Alabama, was occupied seasonally for approximately 7,000 years, spann...
Vegetal remains from radiocarbon-dated ancient packrat middens were used to develop an early and mid...
This thesis aims to integrate the study of population change with the expectations of foraging model...
Sediment samples were collected from 3 rock shelter sites and one natural pond on the Upper Cumberla...
The 2011 Carroll College Archaeological Field School conducted an exploratory excavation within the ...
This work examines the faunal subsistence practices at Lake Roberts Vista, a small Mimbres pueblo wi...
The general architectural transition from semi-subterranean pithouses to surface pueblos that occurr...
New analytical techniques in archaeobotany allow researchers to examine human plant use by developin...
North American archaeologists researching Paleoindian adaptations have suggested that Paleoindians, ...
Many plant fragments recovered from two pre-ceramic rock shelters occupied some 3000 or more years a...