Analyses of the capacity and rates of different acorn storage techniques employed by the
Western Mono of California's Sierra Nevada during the very late Holacene indicate hunter …

The onset of Little Ice Age conditions in California's Sierra Nevada mountains resulted in
increased temporal and spatial variability, and hence uncertainty regarding the distribution …

The concept of the foraging radius is essential to understanding hunter–gatherer settlement,
subsistence, and sociocultural complexity yet is notoriously difficult to reconstruct …

Food storage is a crucial adaptation for hunter-gatherers who face seasonal resource
shortfalls, but the extra time that hunter-gatherer s must spend accumulating food surpluses …

High Rise Village is a hunter-gatherer residential site containing at least 52 house features
at a mean elevation of 3200 m in Wyoming's Wind River Range. Fifteen radiocarbon dates …

Test excavations were conducted at Risco de los Indios (RDLI), a site at 2480 masl with 29
residential features and a well-developed midden containing abundant floral, faunal, lithic …

Holocene climate likely influenced prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility as
changing climate patterns affected food resources. Of interest here is whether climate-driven …

Western Mono acorn caches in the south-central Sierra Nevada are distributed in five km
radii around central place winter settlements corresponding to predicted distributions, taking …

Recent research indicates that late prehistoric Numic expansion onto the western slope of
the southern Sierra Nevada was facilitated by a competitive edge held by migrating groups …

Starch residue analysis, ground stone, and use-wear analysis on milling equipment from
High Rise Village and the White Mountain Village sites reveals a subsistence system that …