Prehistoric Rock Structures of the Idaho National Laboratory Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Prehistoric Rock Structures of the Idaho National Laboratory

Creator

  • Author: Pace, Brenda R
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Sponsor: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy.
    Contributor Type: Organization
    Contributor Info: DOE - NE

Publisher

  • Name: Idaho National Laboratory
    Place of Publication: [Idaho Falls, Idaho]
    Additional Info: Idaho National Laboratory (INL)

Date

  • Creation: 2007-04-01

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: Over the past 13,500 years, human populations have lived in and productively utilized the natural resources offered by the cold desert environment of the northeastern Snake River Plain in eastern Idaho. Within an overall framework of hunting and gathering, groups relied on an intimate familiarity with the natural world and developed a variety of technologies to extract the resources that they needed to survive. Useful items were abundant and found everywhere on the landscape. Even the basaltic terrain and the rocks, themselves, were put to productive use. This paper presents a preliminary classification scheme for rock structures built on the Idaho National Laboratory landscape by prehistoric aboriginal populations, including discussions of the overall architecture of the structures, associated artifact assemblages, and topographic placement. Adopting an ecological perspective, the paper concludes with a discussion of the possible functions of these unique resources for the desert populations that once called the INL home.

Subject

  • Keyword: Classification
  • Keyword: Deserts
  • Keyword: Hunting And Gathering
  • Keyword: Prehistoric Rock Structures
  • Keyword: Snake River Plain Archaeology
  • Keyword: Archaeology
  • STI Subject Categories: 54 - Environmental Sciences
  • Keyword: Architecture
  • Keyword: Human Populations

Source

  • Conference: Idaho Academy of Science,University Place, Idaho Falls,04/19/2007,04/21/2007

Collection

  • Name: Office of Scientific & Technical Information Technical Reports
    Code: OSTI

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Article

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • Report No.: INL/CON-07-12519
  • Grant Number: DE-AC07-99ID-13727
  • Office of Scientific & Technical Information Report Number: 912465
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc886113
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