Middle-holocene climates and human population densities in the Great Basin, western USA

Holocene

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 366-373

  Louderback, Lisbeth A ^a   Grayson, Donald K ^a   Llobera, Marcos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; Great Basin; human population density; middle Holocene; paleoenvironments; summed probability distributions

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CLIMATE EFFECT; DEMOGRAPHIC HISTORY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOENVIRONMENT; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PROBABILITY; RADIOCARBON DATING;

BONNEVILLE BASIN; GREAT BASIN; LAHONTAN BASIN; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 79952085676     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683610374888     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aikens CM (1970) Hogup Cave. University of Utah Anthropological Papers 93.
2. Aikens MC and Madsen DB (1986) Prehistory of the Eastern Area. In: d'Azevedo WL (ed.) Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 11 (Great Basin). Smithsonian Institution, 149-160.
3. Antevs E. (1948) The Great Basin, with emphasis on glacial and postglacial times: Climate changes and pre-white man. Bulletin of the University of Utah 38(20): 168-191.
4. Baumhoff MA and Heizer RF (1965) Postglacial climate and archaeology in the Desert West. In: Wright HE and Frey DG (eds) The Quaternary of the United States. Princeton University Press, 697-708.
5. Baxter MJ, Beardah CC and Wright RVS (1997) Some archaeological applications of kernel density estimates. Journal of Archaeological Science 24: 347-354.
6. Beck C. and Jones GT (2009) The Archaeology of Eastern Nevada Paleoarchaic. Part I, The Sunshine Locality. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
7. Benson LV, Kashgarian M., Rye R., Lund S., Paillet F., Smoot J.et al.(2002) Holocene multidecadal and multicentennial droughts affecting northern California and Nevada. Quaternary Science Reviews 21: 659-682.
8. Berry MS (1982) Time, Space and Transition in Anasazi Prehistory. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
9. Buchanan B., Collard M. and Edinborough K. (2008) Paleoindian demography and the extraterrestrial impact hypothesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105(33): 11651-11 654.
10. Byrne R., Busby C. and Heizer RF (1979) The Altithermal revisited: Pollen evidence from the Leonard Rockshelter. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 1: 280-294.
11. Fagan B. (1974) Altithermal Occupation of Spring Sites in the Northern Great Basin. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers No. 6.
12. Gajewski K., Viau AE, Sawada M., Atkinson DE and Fines P. (2006) Synchronicity in climate and vegetation transitions between Europe and North America during the Holocene. Climatic Change 78: 341-361.
13. Graf KE (2007) Stratigraphy and chronology of the Pleistocene to Holocene transition at Bonneville Estates Rockshelter, eastern Great Basin. In: Graf KE and Schmitt DN (eds) Paleoindian or Paleoarchaic: Great Basin Human Ecology at the Pleistocene- Holocene Transition. Salt Lake City UT: University of Utah Press, 82-104.
14. Grayson DK (1993) The Desert's Past: A Natural Prehistory of the Great Basin. Smithsonian Institution Press.
15. Grayson DK (2000) Mammalian responses to middle Holocene climatic change in the Great Basin of the western United States. Journal of Biogeography 27: 181-192.
16. Grayson DK (2006) Brief histories of some Great Basin mammals: Extinctions, extirpations, and abundance histories. Quaternary Science Reviews 25: 2964-2991.
17. Grayson DK (2010) The Great Basin: A Natural Prehistory. Berkeley CA: University of California Press, in press.
18. Harding ST (1965) Recent Variations in the Water Supply of the Western Great Basin. Water Resources Center Archives Series 16, Berkeley CA: University of California.
19. Kelly RL (1997) Late Holocene Great Basin prehistory. Journal of World Prehistory 11(1): 1-49.
20. Kiahtipes CA (2009) Fire in the desert: Holocene paleoenvironments in the Bonneville Basin. M.A. Thesis, Washington State University.
21. Kuzmin YV and Keates SG (2005) Dates are not just data: Paleolithic settlement patterns in Siberia derived from radiocarbon records. American Antiquity 70(4): 773-789.
22. LaMarche VC Jr (1973) Holocene climatic variations inferred from treeline fluctuations in the White Mountains, California. Quaternary Research 3: 632-660.
23. Lindström S. (1990) Submerged tree stumps as indicators of mid-Holocene aridity in the Lake Tahoe region. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 12: 146-157.
24. Lindström S. (1996) Lake Tahoe case study: lake levels. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final Report to Congress, Addendum. Davis CA: Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, 265-268.
25. Louderback LA and Rhode D. (2009) 15,000 years of vegetation change in the Bonneville Basin: The Blue Lake record. Quaternary Science Reviews 28: 308-326.
26. Madsen DB (2002) Great Basin peoples and late Quaternary aquatic history. In: Hershler R, Madsen DB and Currey DR (eds) Great Basin Aquatic Ecosystems History. Smithsonian Contributions to the Earth Sciences 33, Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 387-405.
27. Mehringer PJ Jr (1985) Late-Quaternary pollen records from the interior Pacific Northwest and Northern Great Basin of the United States. In: Bryant VM Jr and Holloway RG (eds) Pollen Records of Late-Quaternary North American Sediments. Dallas TX: American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists, 167-190.
28. Mehringer PJ Jr (1986) Prehistoric environments. In: d'Azevedo WL (ed.) Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 11 (Great Basin). Smithsonian Institution, 31-50.
29. Mehringer PJ Jr and Cannon WJ (1994) Volcaniclastic dunes of the Fort Rock Valley, Oregon: Stratigraphy, chronology, and archaeology. In: Aikens CM and Jenkins DL (eds)Archaeological Research in the Northern Great Basin: Fort Rock Archaeology since Cress-man. University of Oregon Archaeological Papers 50: 283-327.
30. Mensing SA, Benson LV, Kashgarian M. and Lund S. (2004) A Holocene pollen record of persistent droughts from Pyramid Lake, Nevada, USA. Quaternary Research 62: 29-38.
31. Miller JR, House K., Germanoski D., Tausch RJ and Chambers JC (2004) Fluvial geomorphic responses to Holocene climate change. In: Chambers JC and Miller JR (eds) Great Basin Riparian Ecosystems: Ecology, Management, and Restoration. Washington DC: Island Press, 49-87.
32. Neme G. and Gil A. (2009) Human occupation and increasing Mid-Holocene aridity. Current Anthropology 50(1): 149-163.
33. Rick JW (1987) Dates as data: An examination of the Peruvian Preceramic radiocarbon record. American Antiquity 52(1): 55-73.
34. Riede F. (2009) Climate and demography in early prehistory: Using calibrated 14C dates as population proxies. Human Biology 81(2-3): 309-337.
35. Steward JH (1938) Basin-Plateau Aboriginal Sociopolitical Groups. Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 120.
36. Surovell TA and Brantingham PJ (2007) A note on the use of temporal frequency distributions in studies of prehistoric demography. Journal of Archaeological Science 34: 1868-1877.
37. Surovell TA, Finley JB, Smith GM, Brantingham JP and Kelly RL (2009) Correcting temporal frequency distributions for taphonomic bias. Journal of Archaeological Science 36: 1715-1724.
38. Sutton MQ, Basgall ME, Gardner JK and Allen MW (2007) Advances in understanding Mojave Desert prehistory. In: Jones TL and Klar KR (eds) California Prehistory: Colonization, Culture, and Complexity. Lanham MD: AltaMira Press, 229-245.
39. Taylor RE (1987) Radiocarbon Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. Orlando: Academic Press.
40. Thomas DH (1972) Western Shoshone ecology: Settlement patterns and beyond. In: Fowler DD (ed.)Great Basin Cultural Ecology: A Symposium. Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences 8, 135-153.