Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin

2019 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard L. Rosencrance ◽  
Geoffrey M. Smith ◽  
Dennis L. Jenkins ◽  
Thomas J. Connolly ◽  
Thomas N. Layton
Keyword(s):  
Great Basin ◽  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Spatial Distributions ◽  
New Information ◽  
Terminal Pleistocene ◽  
The University ◽  
Fort Rock Basin

Cougar Mountain Cave is located in Oregon's Fort Rock Basin. In 1958, avocationalist John Cowles excavated most of the cave's deposits and recovered abundant fiber, lithic, wood, and osseous artifacts. A crew from the University of California, Davis returned to the site in 1966 to evaluate the potential for further research, collecting additional lithic and fiber artifacts from disturbed deposits and in situ charcoal from apparently undisturbed deposits. Because Cowles took few notes or photographs, the Cougar Mountain Cave collection—most of which is housed at the Favell Museum in Klamath Falls, Oregon—has largely gone unstudied even though it contains diagnostic artifacts spanning the Holocene and, potentially, the terminal Pleistocene. We recently submitted charcoal and basketry from the site for radiocarbon dating, providing the first reliable sense of when Cougar Mountain Cave was first occupied. Our results indicate at least a Younger Dryas age for initial occupation. The directly dated basketry has provided new information about the age ranges and spatial distributions of diagnostic textile types in the northwestern Great Basin.

More Chibcha textiles

Antiquity ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 64 (245) ◽  
pp. 841-843
Author(s):  
Sylvia M. Broadbent
Keyword(s):  
Radiocarbon Dating ◽  
Short Note ◽  
British Museum ◽  
University Of California ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Short Article ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
To Come ◽  
The University

In 1985, a short article of mine on Chibcha textiles in the British Museum (the Bunch collection) appeared in Antiquity (Broadbent 1985). In July of that year, while in Bogotá for the 45th International Congress of Americanists, I had an opportunity to examine a fine new collection of textiles in the Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) from the museum of Pasca, a small town near the southern edge of Chibcha territory. According to Cardale (1986). they are said to come from caves on the Páramo de Pisba. Although my analysis of them was somewhat sketchy, the time available being very limited, they seem to confirm the distinctive features I observed in the Bunch collection. I was allowed to take small samples of three of them for radiocarbon dating at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) dating facility. It therefore seems appropriate to present this short note as a sequel to the previous paper.

Some ascidians from Indonesian marine lakes (Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua)

Zootaxa ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2106 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANÇOISE MONNIOT
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Lower Salinity ◽  
Invertebrate Diversity ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Marine Lakes ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
Anatomical Characters ◽  
The University

A small collection of ascidians from Indonesian marine lakes in the Raja Ampat Islands, West Papua province, was made by biologists from the university of California, Merced and Coral Reef Research Foundation, Palau during a marine lakes macro-invertebrate diversity survey. It comprises 19 species. Some of them previously described show some modifications of their anatomical characters which may be due to a lower salinity and pH of the lake water or perhaps to evolution in situ. Some specimens (Aplousobranchia) could not be assigned to a species, the samples being too small, the larvae absent, and a possible modification in the number or shape of the calcareous spicules may occur. They are nevertheless described.

Studies on the genus Aporcelaimellus Heyns, 1965 (Dorylaimida: Aporcelaimidae). Species from Sri Lanka originally studied by Loos

Nematology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-209
Author(s):  
Sergio Álvarez -Ortega ◽  
Reyes Peña-Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Body Length ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Neck Length ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Female Tail ◽  
New Information ◽  
Type Population ◽  
The University

Abstract This paper provides new information about five species of Aporcelaimellus sensu lato from Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) studied by Loos in two contributions published in 1945 and 1949, and whose corresponding material is deposited in part at the University of California (Riverside). Aporcelaimellus insignis is re-described on the basis of the type material. Aporcelaimellus loosi sp. n. is described on the basis of two females and characterised by its body length of 1.52-1.71 mm, lip region offset by constriction and 15.015.5 μ m in diam., odontostyle 18.5-19.0 μ m long and with aperture occupying about two-thirds its length, neck 450-467 μ m long, pharyngeal expansion 234-246 μ m long or occupying 52-53% of total neck length, uterus short and simple, V = 55-56, female tail short and rounded (23 μm, c = 67-74, c = 0.6), and male unknown. One female of A. tropicus perfectly fits those forming part of the type population. Aporcelaimellus mamillatus is described in detail and transferred to the genus Aporcelinus. One female of Makatinus minor is also described and compared with type material of this species. Measurements and illustrations, including line drawings and/or LM pictures, are given for the five species.

Sharing of Worldwide Spread Knowledge Using Hypermedia Facilities & Fast Communication Protocols (Mosaic and World Wide Web): The Example of ExPASy

1995 ◽  
Vol 34 (01/02) ◽  
pp. 75-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. D. Appel ◽  
O. Golaz ◽  
Ch. Pasquali ◽  
J.-C. Sanchez ◽  
A. Bairoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Laboratory Data ◽  
Central Element ◽  
University Hospital ◽  
New Information ◽  
The University ◽  
Link Information

Abstract:The sharing of knowledge worldwide using hypermedia facilities and fast communication protocols (i.e., Mosaic and World Wide Web) provides a growth capacity with tremendous versatility and efficacy. The example of ExPASy, a molecular biology server developed at the University Hospital of Geneva, is striking. ExPASy provides hypermedia facilities to browse through several up-to-date biological and medical databases around the world and to link information from protein maps to genome information and diseases. Its extensive access is open through World Wide Web. Its concept could be extended to patient data including texts, laboratory data, relevant literature findings, sounds, images and movies. A new hypermedia culture is spreading very rapidly where the international fast transmission of documents is the central element. It is part of the emerging new “information society”.

The training of a polar scientist: Patrick Geddes and the student career of William Speirs Bruce

2002 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-301 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. N. SWINNEY
Keyword(s):  
Future Career ◽  
New Information ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The University

ABSTRACT: The university career of the polar scientist William Speirs Bruce (1867–is examined in relation to new information, discovered amongst the Bruce papers in the University of Edinburgh, which elucidates the role played by Patrick Geddes in shaping Bruce's future career. Previous accounts of Bruce's university years, based mainly on the biography by Rudmose Brown (1923), are shown to be in error in several details.

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