Date of Award
5-2025
Culminating Project Type
Thesis
Styleguide
other
Society for American Archaeology (SAA)
Degree Name
Cultural Resources Management Archaeology: M.S.
Department
Anthropology
College
College of Liberal Arts
First Advisor
Mark Muniz
Second Advisor
Debra Gold
Third Advisor
Lawrence C. Todd
Fourth Advisor
Robert L. Kelly
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Keywords and Subject Headings
ice patch archaeology, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, bow and arrow, strontium isotope analysis
Abstract
Two wooden bows were recovered from a group of 11 ice patches in the Absaroka Mountains by Greybull River Sustainable Landscape Ecology (GRSLE), Inc. in 2015. Bow GL7-3, made of Picea (spruce) dated to 625 ± 26 uncal BP. Bow GL5-3, of Pinus (pine) was first dated to 15 ± 25 uncal BP (Direct AMS); this prompted a redating (Beta Analytic) that returned an age of 160 ± 30 uncal BP. This research examines the morphological characteristics of the bows to determine how they may have been used and by whom. Strontium isotope analysis is then employed to determine the extent of transport from the ice patch where the bows were recovered to possible locations of origin. This research suggests the bows were likely Shoshonean children’s bows used to hunt small game at the ice patch and the extent of transport is consistent with previously proposed movement patterns in the Absaroka Mountains.
Recommended Citation
Phillips, Amy, "Technology Investment and Mobility in the High Alpine" (2025). Culminating Projects in Cultural Resource Management. 58.
https://repository.stcloudstate.edu/crm_etds/58
