Assessing The Importance Of Past Human Behavior In Dendroarchaeological Research: Examples From Range Creek Canyon, Utah, U.S.A.

• Main Authors: Towner, Ronald H., Salzer, Matthew W., Parks, James A., Barlow, K. Renee
• Other Authors: Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, University of Arizona
• Language: en_US
• Published: Tree-Ring Society 2009
• Subjects: Dendrochronology; Tree Rings; Dendroarchaeology; Past Human Behavior; Species Selection; Beam Selection; Range Creek Canyon; Utah; Fremont Culture
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622611; http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622611

Dendroarchaeological samples can contain three kinds of information: chronological, behavioral, and environmental. The decisions of past people regarding species selection, beam size, procurement and modification techniques, deadwood use, and stockpiling are the most critical factors influencing an archaeological date distribution. Using dendrochronological samples from prehistoric and historic period sites in the same area of eastern Utah, this paper examines past human behavior as the critical factor in dendroarchaeological date distributions.