Sanders Site Archaeology: Feature Identification
Document Type
Poster
Campus where you would like to present
Ellensburg
Event Website
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source
Start Date
18-5-2020
Abstract
Following the lead of other student collection analyses this study examines the documentary and artifact evidence for features in six strata. The results of this study can be split into two sections: feature identification and stratigraphic analysis. Results illustrates general activity areas and discrete features including concentrations of bone refuse. Concentrations of bone with spiral fractures represent marrow extraction from deer and deer size long bones. In these concentrations, bones with spiral fractures represent marrow extraction. Most of this subsistence activity dates to about 3000 years ago; however, one feature may date as early as 5000 years. Fauna samples from the lower strata supplement a larger sample analyzed by Endacott and others. This lower strata also contain deer: however, Big Horn sheep (Ovis canadensis) are also present. With additional analysis of other samples, we may be able to document changes in environment, subsistence, and settlement displayed during the Frenchman Springs phase.
Recommended Citation
Briggs, India, "Sanders Site Archaeology: Feature Identification" (2020). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 3.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/3
Department/Program
Anthropology & Museum Studies
Additional Mentoring Department
https://cwu.studentopportunitycenter.com/2020/04/sanders-site-archaeology-feature-identification/
Sanders Site Archaeology: Feature Identification
Ellensburg
Following the lead of other student collection analyses this study examines the documentary and artifact evidence for features in six strata. The results of this study can be split into two sections: feature identification and stratigraphic analysis. Results illustrates general activity areas and discrete features including concentrations of bone refuse. Concentrations of bone with spiral fractures represent marrow extraction from deer and deer size long bones. In these concentrations, bones with spiral fractures represent marrow extraction. Most of this subsistence activity dates to about 3000 years ago; however, one feature may date as early as 5000 years. Fauna samples from the lower strata supplement a larger sample analyzed by Endacott and others. This lower strata also contain deer: however, Big Horn sheep (Ovis canadensis) are also present. With additional analysis of other samples, we may be able to document changes in environment, subsistence, and settlement displayed during the Frenchman Springs phase.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2020/COTS/3
Faculty Mentor(s)
Steven Hackenberger