J. M. Adovasio

• Perishable Artifacts, Paleoindians, and Dying Paradigms
  

J. M. Adovasio — A little over ten years ago on 16 July 1989, I was sitting in an un-air-conditioned, very humid hotel room in Donetsk, Ukraine. Outside of that 15-story concrete testimonial to Soviet-style architecture, some one million disgruntled coal miners were clamorously protesting their miserable working conditions. Inside, my colleagues and I were carefully sequestered . . .

• Perishable Technology from the Hiscock Site (to be reposted soon)
  
  J. M. Adovasio, R. S. Laub, J. S. Illingworth, J. H. McAndrews, and D. C. Hyland — The 1996 excavations at the Hiscock site yielded a remarkably well preserved impression and,possibly, actual minute pieces of a twined textile or basket. It was recovered from the site's Fibrous Gravelly Clay, within 5 cm of the overlying Older Woody Layer, and may be of late Pleistocene age. The impression represents a segment of a very well made close diagonal twinedtextile or basket with paired Z-twist wefts, a continuous weft side selvage, and is part of a fully flexible cloth construction of . . .

D. C. Dirkmaat

• Commingled Remains and the Mass Grave: Considering the Benefits of Forensic Archaeology–(Presented at the 2005 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings in New Orleans, LA)
  
  Dennis C. Dirkmaat, PhD, D.A.B.F.A, Luis L. Cabo, MS, James M. Adovasio, PhD.; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  Vicente Rozas, PhD; Centro de Investigaciones Forestales y Ambientales de Lourizán, Pontevedra, Spain
  
  The widespread investigation of human rights violations and abuse throughout the world during the past two decades, has generated a renewed interest in the recovery and investigation of human remains from many different depositional contexts, especially, multiple victim burial features, i.e., mass graves. . .

• Forensic Processing of the Terrestrial Mass Fatality Scene: Testing New Search, Documentation and Recovery Methodologies– (Presented at the 2001 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings in Seattle, WA)
  

  Dennis C. Dirkmaat, Ph.D., D.A.B.F.A., Joseph T. Hefner, B.S., and Michael J. Hochrein, B.S. — The documentation and recovery of physical evidence associated with a mass fatality scene (especially a commercial airplane crash) is a tremendously co mplicated u ndertaking . The sheer volume of m aterial, usually concentrated in one area, and the chaotic dispersal of the evidence often leads . . .

J. Hefner

• Can Sharp Force Trauma To Bone Be Recognized After Fire Modification? An Experiment Using Odocoileus virginianus (White-Tailed Deer) Ribs–(Presented at the 2002 American Academy of Forensic Sciences Meetings in Atlanta, GA)
  
  Paul D. Emanovsky, BS; Archaeology and Forensics Laboratory, University of Indianapolis , Indianapolis, IN
  Joseph T. Hefner, BS; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  Dennis C. Dirkmaat, PhD, D.A.B.F.A.; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  
  During the course of their analyses, forensic anthropologists routinely face the task of identifying and interpreting taphonomic events surrounding the death of an individual. At times they are called upon to analyze remains that have been exposed to, and modified by, fire. Intense heat modification to bone results in fragmentation, color changes, shrinkage, and warpage, which can make a forensic osteological analysis (including the determination of basic biological parameters) more difficult. This is especially disruptive . .

D. C. Hyland

• Pleistocene Textiles in the Russian Far East: Impressions From Some of the World's Oldest Pottery
  
  D. C. Hyland, I. S. Zhushchikhovskaya, V. E. Medvedev, A. P. Derevianko, and A. V. Tabarev— Recent excavations at a series of terminal Pleistocene sites in the Amur River basin and the Primorie region of the Russian Far East have produced some of the earliest evidence of pottery production in the world (Derevianko and Medvedev 1995; Zhushchikhovskaya 1996, 1997a, 1997b). Additionally, and like the novel reports of an elaborate textile industry for Upper Paleolithic Moravia . . .
  

• Geomorphology and Geochemistry of the Upper Paleolithic Site of Chikhen Agui, Mongolia

  D. C. Hyland— Using traditional geologic and high-resolution geoarchaeological techniques, the deposits of Chikhen Agui (Ear Cave) are studied to provide a macro- and micro- environmental context for the Upper Paleolithic of the south Gobi. Within this context and at a local level, the previously recognized and apparently significant technological . . .

J. S. Illingworth

• Early Bronze Age Perishable Construction Technology from the Southeastern Dead Sea Plain (to be reposted soon)
  
  J. S. Illingsworth— Excavations at the Early Bronze Age sites of Bâb edh-Dhrâc and Numeira, both on the Jordanian Dead Sea Plain, have produced nearly 11,000 specimens of textiles, cordage, and impressions of basketry as well as a series of implements associated with their production. The weaving tools from these sites are discussed in relation to their context, association, morphology, and method of construction, and in terms of insights which they provide about perishable technologies from these sites.

This project involves the field documentation of all of Erie County's historic cemeteries. Recording will take place both at the level of the cemetery, and for individual monuments. The project, which combines the work of Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute faculty, staff, and students aims to produce a . . .

• Munselling the Mound: The Use of Soil Colour as Metaphor in British Bronze Age Funerary Ritual
  
  Mary Ann Owoc— The interest in the colours of Bronze Age funerary practice that culminated in this contribution, began from a detailed encounter with the constructional histories of a number of south-western British Bronze Age funerary/ritual sites. The term funerary/ritual sites is used here to refer to the multiple examples of ritual architecture of the period, which generally include some combination of mounds/cairns, ditches, and rings/banks (Lynch 1970) . . .
  

• The times, they are a changin': experiencing continuity and development in the Early Bronze Age funerary rituals of south-western Britain.
  
  Mary Ann Owoc —As recently as 10 years ago, an article concerned with Bronze Age funerary practice would have seemed out of place in a volume primarily concerned with landscape and settlement. Indeed, from initial appearances at least, the discussion of mortuary practices per se occupies but a small part of the current collection of papers. While it is wholly reasonable to . . .

A. Quinn

• The Orton Quarry Site (36ER243) and the Late Prehistory of the Lake Erie Plain

  A. G. Quinn, J. M. Adovasio, D. R. Pedler, C. L. Pedler, D. C. Dirkmaat, D. C. Hyland, and M. R. Buyce — Developments during the Terminal Late Woodland period of northwestern Pennsylvania are poorly understood in relation to contemporaneous events in contiguous areas of the southeastern Lake Erie basin of New York and Ohio. The results of recently completed analyses . . .

S. A. Symes

• Bone Biomechanical Considerations in Perimortem vs. Postmortem Thermal Bone Fractures: Fracture Analysis on Victims of Suspicious Fire Scenes (Poster)
  
  Steven A. Symes, PhD, DABFA; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  Anne M. Kroman, MA; Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee - Knoxville
  Christopher W. Rainwater, BA; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  Tyler A. Kress, PhD; BEST Engineering, Knoville, TN
  Andrea L. Piper, BA; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  Ashley R. Kimminau, BA; Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute, Mercyhurst College, Erie PA
  
  While burned bone fractures have aroused the curiosity of anthropologists for decades, no consensus has been achieved regarding the visual assessment and interpretation of such fractures. Distinguishing between the taphonomic effects of fire and potential perimortem trauma is critical in both bioarchaeological and medicolegal settings. Correct identification of fracture causation in burned or partially burned bone requires an understanding of fracture biomechanics and fracture dynamics between wet, unburned bone and dry, burned bone...

J. Thomas— The intrinsic value of the natural harbor at Erie, Pennsylvania, was first recognized by the French, who built Fort Presque'isle in 1753 and thereby set the stage for the growth of Pennsylvania's only port on the Great Lakes. Initially a defense outpost, the City of Erie grew to become a vital shipping port connecting the Great Lakes to expanding . . .

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