Research in Western North America

by David B. Madsen

Multi-disciplinary Books and Monographs
2002 Great Basin Aquatic Systems History (ed., with R. Hershler and D.R. Currey). Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences, No. 33. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1982 Man and Environment in the Great Basin (ed., with J. F. O'Connell). SAA Papers, No. 2. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.

Multi-disciplinary Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2003 Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Rivers and Wetlands in the Bonneville Basin of Western Utah (with C.G. Oviatt and D.N. Schmitt). Quaternary Research 60(2): 200-210. (665k pdf)
2002 Introduction. In, R. Hershler, D.B. Madsen and D.R. Currey (eds.), Great Basin Aquatic Systems History, Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences No. 33, pp. 1-10. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
2002 Great Basin Peoples and Late Quaternary Aquatic History. In, R. Hershler, D.B. Madsen, and D.R. Currey (eds.), Great Basin Aquatic Systems History . Smithsonian Contributions to Earth Sciences No. 33, pp. 387-405. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
1999 The Nature of Great Basin Environmental Change During the Pleistocene/Holocene Transition and Its Possible Impact on Human Populations. In, C. Beck (ed.), Models for the Millennium: The Current Status of Great Basin Anthropological Research, pp. 75-82. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1998 Pine Nut Use in the Early Holocene and Beyond: The Danger Cave Archaeobotanical Record (with D. Rhode). Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 1156-1163. (291k pdf)
1990 Early Holocene Pinyon ( Pinus monophylla ) in the Northeastern Great Basin (with D. Rhode). Quaternary Research 33:94-101.
1990 Pollen Analysis as a Guide to Human Behavior: The analysis of cultural pollen samples from James Creek Shelter, Elko County, Nevada. In, R. G. Elston and E. E. Budy (eds.), The Archaeology of James Creek Shelter , pp. 104-127. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 115, Salt Lake City.
1982 Great Basin Paleoenvironments: Summary and Integration. In, D.B. Madsen and J.F. O'Connell (eds.), Man and Environment in the Great Basin , pp. 102-104. SAA Papers No. 2. Society for American Archaeology, Washington, D.C.
1976 Man, Mammoth, and Lake Fluctuations in Utah (with D.R. Currey and J.H. Madsen). Antiquities Section Selected Papers 2(5): 43-58.
1974 Holocene Stratigraphy and Archeology in the Middle Missouri River Trench, South Dakota (with S.A. Ahler and others). Science 184: 905-908.
1973 The Pollen Analysis of O'Malley and Conway Shelters. In, D.D. Fowler, D. B. Madsen, and E. M. Hattori (eds.), Prehistory of Southeastern Nevada , Appendix II, pp. 137-141. Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences No. 6, Reno.

Paleoenvironmental Research - Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2004 87 Sr/ 86 Sr ratios of lacustrine carbonates and lake-level history of the Bonneville paleolake system (with W.S. Hart and others). Geological Society of America Bulletin 116: 1107-1119. (437k pdf)
2002 Small-mammal data on early and middle Holocene climates and biotic communities in the Bonneville basin, USA (with D.N. Schmitt and K.D. Lupo).   Quaternary Research 58: 255-260. (105k pdf)
2002 A Late Pleistocene Tephra Layer in the Southern Great Basin and Colorado Plateau Derived from Mono Craters, California (with A. Sarna-Wojcicki and R. Thompson). Quaternary Research 57: 382-390. (310k pdf)
2001 Late Quaternary Environmental Change in the Bonneville Basin, Western USA (with D. Rhode and others). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 167: 243-271. (815k pdf)
2001 Exploratory paleoecology on the Markagunt Plateau: A progress report (with S.A. Ellis and others). In, T.W. Canaday, High-altitude Archeological Investigation at Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah , pp. 183-203. National Park Service Intermountain Region Cultural Resource Selections Series No. 17, Denver.
2000 Biogeographic implications of recent low-elevation recolonization by Neotoma cinerea in the Great Basin (with D. Grayson). Journal of Mammology 81: 1100-1105. (68k pdf)
2000 The Homestead Cave icthyofauna and implications for terminal Pleistocene and Holocene lake level fluctuations in the Bonneville Basin, Utah (with J. Broughton and J. Quade). Quaternary Research 53: 392-401. (341k pdf)
2000 A High Elevation Younger Dryas Megafauna from the West-Central Rocky Mountains. In, D.B. Madsen and M.D. Metcalf (eds.), Intermountain Archaeology, pp. 100-113. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 122, Salt Lake City.
1996 Investigating environmental change in the deserts of western Utah. Utah Geological Survey Survey Notes 28(3): 1-4. (949k pdf)
1995 Late Wisconsin Vegetation in the Northern Bonneville Basin (with D. Rhode). Quaternary Research 44: 246-256. (656k pdf)
1993 The Columbian Mammoth, Mammuthus columbi, from the Wasatch Mountains of Central Utah (with D. D. Gillette). Journal of Paleontology 67(4): 669-680.
1992 Studies of Collagen in Bone and Dentin Matrix of a Columbian Mammoth (Late Pleistocene) of Central Utah (with J.M. Schaedler and others). Matrix 12: 297-037.
1992 The Shortface Bear, Arctodus Simus, from the Late Quaternary in the Wasatch Mountains of Central Utah (with D.D. Gillette). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 12: 107-112.
1985 Two Holocene Pollen Records from the Central Great Basin. In, B.F. Jacobs, P.L. Fall and O.K. Davis (eds.), Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climates of the American Southwest, pp. 113-126. American Association of Stratigraphic Palynologists Contribution Series No. 16.
1985 Correlation Between Vegetative and Lake Level Changes: The Pollen Evidence. In, P.A. Kay and H.F. Diaz (eds.), Problems of and Prospects for Predicting Great Salt Lake Levels, pp. 54-63. Center for Public Affairs and Administration, University of Utah.
1984 Great Salt Lake, and Precursors, Utah: the Last 30,000 years (with R.J. Spencer and others). Contributions to Mineralogy & Petrology 86: 321-334. 1984 Radiocarbon-Dated Reconnaissance of Late Quaternary Hydrochronology in the Sevier Desert Arm of the Bonneville Basin, Utah (with M.C. Isgreen and others). Encyclia 61: 105-110.
1984 Pollen, Packrats, and Pine along the IPP. In, S.R. Simms and M.C. Isgreen, Archaeological Excavations in the Sevier and Escalante Deserts, Western Utah, pp. 336-353. University of Utah Archaeological Center Reports of Investigations No. 83-12.
1979 Dating Glacial Retreat and Late Quaternary Vegetation Changes, Wasatch Mountains, North Central Utah, U.S.A. (with D.R. Currey). Quaternary Research 12: 254-270.
1976 Pluvial - Post-Pluvial Vegetation Changes in the Southeastern Great Basin. In R.G. Elston (ed.), Holocene Environmental Change in the Great Basin, pp. 104-119. Nevada Archeological Survey Research Paper No. 6, Reno.
1972 Paleoecological Investigations in Meadow Valley Wash, Nevada. In, D.D. Fowler (ed.), Great Basin Cultural Ecology: A Symposium, pp. 57-65. Desert Research Institute Publications in the Social Sciences No. 8, Reno.

Archaeological Research– Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2005 Antiquity of early Holocene small–seed consumption and processing at Danger Cave. (with D. Text Box: Archaeological survey, ~11,000 ft., High Uintas Primitive area, Utah (Madsen et al. 2000).Rhode and K.T. Jones). Antiquity (in press).
2004 Worst of Times, The Best of Times: Jackrabbit Hunting by Middle Holocene Human Foragers in the Bonneville Basin of Western North America (with D.N. Schmitt and K.D. Lupo). In, M. Mondini, S. Muñoz & S. Wickler (eds.), Colonization, Migration, and Marginal Areas: A Zooarchaeological Approach, pp. 86-95. Oxford: Oxbow Books, University of Oxford.
2000 Introduction (with M. Metcalf). In, D.B. Madsen and M.D. Metcalf (eds.), Intermountain Archaeology, pp. ix-xiv. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 122, Salt Lake City.
2000 Differential Transport Costs and High Altitude Occupation Patterns in the Uinta Mountains, Northeastern Utah (with T. Scott and B. Loosle). In, D.B. Madsen and M.D. Metcalf (eds.), Intermountain Archaeology, pp. 15-24. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1998 The Fremont Complex: A Behavioral Perspective (with S.R. Simms). Journal of World Prehistory 12: 255-337. (6.5MB pdf)
1998 Mass Collecting and the Diet Breadth Model: A Great Basin Example (with D.N. Schmitt). Journal of Archaeological Science 25: 445-456. (204k pdf)
1994 Mesa Verde and Sleeping Ute Mountain: The Geographical and Chronological Dimensions. In, D.B. Madsen and D. Rhode (eds.), Across the West: Human Population Movement and the Expansion of the Numa, pp. 24-31. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
1992 An Atlatl from Snow Canyon State Park. Utah Archaeology 1992:1-4.
1990 Introduction (with J.C. Janetski). In, J.C. Janetski and D.B. Madsen (eds.), Wetlands Adaptations in the Great Basin: Papers of the 21st Great Basin Anthropological Conference, pp. 1-4. Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Culture Occasional Papers No. 1, Provo.
1988 Hunting Hoppers (with J. Kirkman). American Antiquity 53(3): 593-604.
1988 The Prehistoric Use of Great Basin Marshes. In, C. Raven and R.G. Elston (eds.), Preliminary Investigations in Stillwater Marsh: Human Prehistory and Geoarchaeology, pp. 407-413. Intermountain Research Reports, Silver City, Nevada.
1988 Utah Radiocarbon Dates I: Pre-1970 Dates (with D.V. Rowe). Utah Archaeology 1988:58-65.
1986 Prehistoric Ceramics. In, W. L. D'Azevedo (vol. ed.), Great Basin. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. XI, pp. 206-214. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1986 Prehistory of the Southeastern Area (with D.D. Fowler). In, W. L. D'Azevedo (vol. ed.), Great Basin. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. XI, pp. 173-182. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1986 Prehistory of the Eastern Area (with C.M. Aikens). In, W. L. D'Azevedo (vol. ed.), Great Basin. Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. XI, pp. 149-160. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1986 Great Basin Nuts: A Short Treatise on the Distribution, Productivity, and Prehistoric Use of Pinyon. In, C. J. Condie and D. D. Fowler (eds.), Anthropology of the Desert West: Essays in Honor of Jesse D. Jennings, pp. 21-42. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 110, Salt Lake City.
1985 Pollen Analysis of Some Recapture Wash Archaeological Sites (with L.W. Lindsay). In, A.S. Nielson, J.C. Janetski and J.D. Wilde, Recapture Wash Archaeological Project 1981-1983, San Juan County, Utah, pp.1-42. Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 85-7, Provo.
1985 Pollen Analysis of Samples from Nancy Patterson and Hansbury House, San Juan County, Utah. In, W. Hurst and J.C. Janetski, The Nancy Patterson Village Archaeological Research Project: Field Year 1984. Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 85-32, Provo.
1985 Pollen Analysis at the Sparrow Hawk Site. In, J.C. Janetski, Archaeological Investigations At Sparrow Hawk (42To261): A High Altitude Prehistoric Hunting Camp in the Southern Oquirrh Mountains, Tooele County, Utah, pp. 66-73. Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures Technical Series No. 85-37, Provo.
1982 Prehistoric Occupation Patterns, Subsistence Adaptations, and Chronology in the Fish Springs Areas, Utah. In D.B. Madsen and R. E. Fike (eds.), Archaeological Investigations in Utah at Fish Springs, Clay Basin, Northern San Rafael Swell and Southern Henry Mountains, pp. 1-55. Bureau of Land Management Utah Cultural Resource Series No. l2, Salt Lake City.
1982 Salvage Excavations at Ticaboo Town Ruin. In, D.B. Madsen and R.E. Fike (eds.), Archaeological Investigations in Utah at Fish Springs, Clay Basin, Northern San Rafael Swell and Southern Henry Mountains, pp. 1-41. Bureau of Land Management Utah Cultural Resource Series No. l2, Salt Lake City.
1981 The Distribution of Rock Art Elements & Styles in Utah (with K.B. Castleton). Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 3(2): 163-175.
1981 The Emperor's New Clothes. American Antiquity 46(3): 637-640.
1980 Fremont/Sevier Subsistence. In, David B. Madsen (ed.), Fremont Perspectives, pp. 25-34. Antiquities Section Selected Papers, No.16, Salt Lake City.
1979 The Fremont and the Sevier: Defining Prehistoric Agriculturalists North of the Anasazi. American Antiquity 44(4): 711-722.
1979 Archeological Test Excavations at Twin Valley Springs Shelter (26Hu1075) Humboldt County, Nevada. Special Report to the Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca District.
1978 Recent Data Bearing on the Question of a Hiatus in the Eastern Great Basin. American Antiquity 43(3): 508-509.
1977 Archeological Reconnaissance and Test Excavation at the Travis 2 Site, 39WWl5, Oahe Reservoir, South Dakota (with S.A. Ahler and others). A Special Report to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District. Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.
1976 Bulldozer Dune (42SL46). Antiquities Section Selected Papers, No 6: 59-66.
1975 A Reassessment of Northeastern Great Basin Prehistory (with M.S. Berry). American Antiquity 40(4): 391-405.
1975 Three Fremont Sites in Emery County, Utah. Antiquities Section Selected Papers, No. 1: 1-28.
1975 Dating Paiute-Shoshoni Expansion in the Great Basin. American Antiquity 40(1): 82-86.
1973 Northern Fremont Ceramics. In, G.F. Fry and G.F. Dalley, The Levee and Knoll Sites, pp. 79-102. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 100, Salt Lake City.
1971 O'Malley Shelter. Unpublished M. A. Thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City.
1970 Median Village Ceramics and the Distribution of Fremont Plain Gray Wares. In, J. P. Marwitt, Median Village and Fremont Culture Regional Variation, pp. 54-74. University of Utah Anthropological Papers No. 95, Salt Lake City.

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