Papers by Judson Byrd Finley
Antiquity, Mar 1, 2010
The dwellings of prehistoric Native North Americans are amongst the hardest archaeological struct... more The dwellings of prehistoric Native North Americans are amongst the hardest archaeological structures to find and characterise – they leave only a shallow ring of stones. But the authors show that, when recorded to modern levels of precision, these tipi-stances contain a wealth of information. The stone rings are mapped in detail by hand, and located by GPS, their hearths are located by fluxgate survey and sampled for radiocarbon dating, and the results displayed in layered maps on GIS. Different social groups had different floor plans, so that, even where artefacts are missing, the movement of peoples can be dated and mapped. The results also bring to the fore the great cultural value of these, the dominant monument types of Bighorn Canyon National Recreational Area.
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The Northwestern Plains and adjacent areas are well known for a rich Paleoindian archaeological r... more The Northwestern Plains and adjacent areas are well known for a rich Paleoindian archaeological record, dating back more than 12.000 years. Holocene occupations are somewhat less recognized to those unfamiliar with the plains, although certainly buffalo ...
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Antiquity, 2010
The dwellings of prehistoric Native North Americans are amongst the hardest archaeological struct... more The dwellings of prehistoric Native North Americans are amongst the hardest archaeological structures to find and characterise – they leave only a shallow ring of stones. But the authors show that, when recorded to modern levels of precision, these tipi-stances contain a wealth of information. The stone rings are mapped in detail by hand, and located by GPS, their hearths are located by fluxgate survey and sampled for radiocarbon dating, and the results displayed in layered maps on GIS. Different social groups had different floor plans, so that, even where artefacts are missing, the movement of peoples can be dated and mapped. The results also bring to the fore the great cultural value of these, the dominant monument types of Bighorn Canyon National Recreational Area.
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Oxford Handbooks Online, 2012
The Northwestern Plains and adjacent areas are well known for a rich Paleoindian archaeological r... more The Northwestern Plains and adjacent areas are well known for a rich Paleoindian archaeological record, dating back more than 12.000 years. Holocene occupations are somewhat less recognized to those unfamiliar with the plains, although certainly buffalo ...
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American Antiquity, 2011
Using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis from nearly 2,300 sourced obsidian artifacts in western W... more Using x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis from nearly 2,300 sourced obsidian artifacts in western Wyoming, southwestern Montana, and eastern Idaho, we demonstrate regional diachronic changes in access to and preference for particular obsidian sources throughout the West. We focus on both (I) long-term patterns of obsidian use that may inform us about the timing of precontact migrations of Numic (Shoshone) speakers into the Rocky Mountains and (2) the extent to which later contact among Native inhabitants and European immigrants was a mechanism for reducing elements of precontact mobility and exchange in the postcontact era. We view indigenous responses to contact in the study area as an active, strategic process with measurable material consequences. Despite a well-documented increase in mobility among local Native groups as a result of the introduction of the horse, our study demonstrates a restriction and reduction in Historic period source use in western Wyoming. We propose that ch...
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Stones, Bones, and Profiles: Exploring Archaeological Context, Early American Hunter-Gatherers, and Bison, 2016
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Abstract: Rockshelters in the Bighorn Mountains play a key role in Central Rocky Mountains and no... more Abstract: Rockshelters in the Bighorn Mountains play a key role in Central Rocky Mountains and northern Plains archaeological research. While many rockshelters have been excavated, no systematic geoarchaeological investigations have considered spatial and ...
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Geoarchaeology, 2015
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North American Archaeologist, 2014
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Plains Anthropologist, 2014
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Plains Anthropologist, 2005
This paper reports on 10 years of research at the Black Mountain Archaeological District, located... more This paper reports on 10 years of research at the Black Mountain Archaeological District, located in north central Wyoming s Bighorn Mountain range. It focuses specifically on two rockshelters: 48 BH 1827(Two Moon Shelter) and 48 BH 1065(BA Cave). Two Moon ...
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