ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT LITTLE SAND BAY VISITOR CENTER AREA APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (APIS) is in the process of planning for a new Visitor Center at Little Sand Bay, involving the removal of the existing structure, and building of two new structures. While much of the project area has been previously disturbed and prior inventory in the general vicinity revealed no significant resources, this project has potential to impact any remaining resources. Archeological investigations were required to determine whether archeological deposits remained, whether any remaining deposits retained integrity, and whether proposed activities were likely to impact them

2009 Archaeological Investigations at the Walters, Beedle, and Lyon Lots, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Established in 1971, the Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO) commemorates the life of the 16th President of the United States. The park contains the neighborhood where Abraham Lincoln spent most of his adult life in Springfield, Illinois (Townsend 2008:76-149). The Park consists of a four-block historic neighborhood, which is partly restored to the year of Abraham Lincoln’s election as President. The centerpiece of the park consists of the restored house where Lincoln’s family lived from 1844 to 1861, when he became the 16th President of the United States

ARCHEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT LITTLE SAND BAY VISITOR CENTER AREA APOSTLE ISLANDS NATIONAL LAKESHORE

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore (APIS) is in the process of planning for a new Visitor Center at Little Sand Bay, involving the removal of the existing structure, and building of two new structures. While much of the project area has been previously disturbed and prior inventory in the general vicinity revealed no significant resources, this project has potential to impact any remaining resources. Archeological investigations were required to determine whether archeological deposits remained, whether any remaining deposits retained integrity, and whether proposed activities were likely to impact them

Book Review of \u3ci\u3e Archaeology as a Process: Processualism and Its Progeny \u3c/i\u3eby Michael J. O\u27Brien, R. Lee Lyman, and Michael Brian Schiffer

The field of archaeology incorporates a confusing assortment of ideas and approaches to the record. With studies ranging widely in ideology and goals, from strict descriptive materialism to sociological interpretation, language used to communicate key concepts (not to mention which concepts are key) also varies widely, resulting in low levels of mutual interest and intelligibility across the discipline. Archaeologists commonly ignore the majority of available literature as a result, further widening intellectual chasms

2009 Archaeological Investigations at the Walters, Beedle, and Lyon Lots, Lincoln Home National Historic Site

Established in 1971, the Lincoln Home National Historic Site (LIHO) commemorates the life of the 16th President of the United States. The park contains the neighborhood where Abraham Lincoln spent most of his adult life in Springfield, Illinois (Townsend 2008:76-149). The Park consists of a four-block historic neighborhood, which is partly restored to the year of Abraham Lincoln’s election as President. The centerpiece of the park consists of the restored house where Lincoln’s family lived from 1844 to 1861, when he became the 16th President of the United States

Hunter-Gatherers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Testing Assumptions about Site Function

The settlement-subsistence pattern of hunter-gatherers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, has been viewed historically as an economic system organized around the altitudinal distribution of seasonally ripening food crops and has come to be known as high country adaptation (HCA). Although this study does not take issue with the basic tenet of the modelhunter- gatherer movement through altitudinal zones for the exploitation of seasonally available resources-we critically assess the normative functional interpretations presented by previous investigators. We examine artifacts in three lithic assemblages from southern Jackson Hole in terms of the organization of technology as a means to investigate each locale\u27s function in a larger settlement system. By focusing on smaller units of analysis, and using different kinds of data, we are able to test expectations based on the HCA land-use model for each assemblage. We find that conclusions based upon that model are not consistently supported