Richard Rosencrance
Ph.D. Candidate
Artemisia Archaeological Research Fund, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno
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I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Reno. My research intrests primarily include archaeology of the Great Basin and Columbia Plateau, the peopling of the Americas, Pleistocene lifeways, the Western Stemmed Tradition, chronology building, lithic analysis, and lithic raw material sourcing. I also have interests in paleoecology, small scale societies, and labor division.
The current title of my dissertation is Technology, Serial Specialists, and Younger Dryas Cold Adaptation in the Northern Great Basin, USA. My research focuses on the technological, mobility, and social strategies poeple used to mitigate cold stress in Oregon's Great Basin at the end of the Ice Age. My primary data will come be the Haskett lithic assemblages from the Connley Caves, Cougar Mountain Cave, and surface Haskett sites around the Northern Great Basin. My goals are to (1) characterize the lithic technological organizaiton of these sites; (2) examine how the identified strategies fit with existing models of settlement and subistence patterning; and (3) ultimately test proposed hypotheses relating to cold adaptation at the end of the Pliestocene.
Education
Education
Curr. University of Nevada, Reno, Ph.D. (Anthropology)
2019 University of Nevada, Reno, M.A. (Anthropology)
2015 West Virginia University, B.A. (Anthropology)
Contact
Contact
Email: rrosencrance@unr.edu
Mail: 1664 N. Virginia Street, MS096, Reno, NV 89557
Publications
Publications
Books
Books
(2024) McDonough, Katelyn N., Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt (editors). Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies in the American Far West. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
Journal Articles and Chapters
(2024) McDonough, Katelyn N., Daniel G. Gavin, Richard L. Rosencrancem Loren G. Davis, Stephen C. Kuehn, Morgan F. Smith, Grant Snitker, Chantel V. Saban, and Ryan Szymanski. Multi-proxy Paleoenvironmental Data from Paulina Marsh Inform Human-Environmental Dynamics in the Northern Great Basin U.S.A. Quaternary Science Advances 14: 100184. DOI: 10.1016/j.qsa.2024.100184
(2024) Rosencrance, Richard L., Daron Duke, Amanda J. Hartman, and Andrew Hoskins. Western Stemmed Tradition Projectile Point Chronology in the Intermountain West. In Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies of the American Far West, edited by Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt, pp. 21-58. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
(2024) McDonough, Katelyn N., Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt. A History of Stemmed and Fluted Technology Research in the American Far West. In Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies of the American Far West, edited by Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Jordan E. Pratt, pp. 1-17. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
(2024) Smith, Geoffrey M., Dennis L. Jenkins, Derek J. Reaux, Sophia Jamaldin, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Katelyn N. McDonough. WST Toolstone Conveyance and its Role in Understanding How Early Populations Settled into the Northwestern Great Basin. In Current Perspectives on Stemmed and Fluted Technologies of the American Far West, edited by K. N. McDonough, R. L. Rosencrance, and J. E. Pratt, pp. 59-78. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
(2023) Davis, Margaret A., Brendan J. Culleton, Richard L. Rosencrance, Christopher S. Jazwa. Experimental Observations on Processing Leather, Skin, and Parchment for Radiocarbon Dating. Radiocarbon, in press. DOI: DOI:10.1017/RDC.2023.88
(2023) Holcomb, Justin H., Katelyn N. McDonough, Richard L. Rosencrance, Lisa-Marie Shillito, and Dennis L. Jenkins. Frost Action During the Younger Dryas Inferred from Soil Micromorphology at Connley Cave 5, Oregon. PaleoAmerica 9(4):289-303. DOI:10.1080/20555563.2023.2282316
(2023) Richard L. Rosencrance, Christopher S. Jazwa, Geoffrey M. Smith, and Jackson C. Mueller. Redating Deer Creek Cave: A Stratified Upland Site in Northeastern Nevada. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 43(2):243-260.
(2023) Smith, Geoffrey M., Daniel O. Stueber, Erica J. Bradley, R. L. Rosencrance, and Daron Duke. The Form and Function of Oversized Parman Stemmed Points of the Western Stemmed Tradition. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 43(2):195-209.
(2023) Baxter, Paul and Richard L. Rosencrance. Radiocarbon Dating and Obsidian Studies. In Cascadia Cave (35LN11): The Archaeological Excavations, by Paul Baxter, pp. 107-122. University of Oregon Anthropological Papers No. 75, Eugene.
(2022) Rosencrance, Richard L., Katelyn N. McDonough, Justin A. Holcomb, Pamela E. Endzweig, and Dennis L. Jenkins. Dating and Analysis of Western Stemmed Toolkits from the Legacy Collection of Connley Cave 4, Oregon. PaleoAmerica 8(3):264–284. DOI:10.1080/20555563.2022.2088132
(2022) Smith, Geoffrey M., Sara Sturtz, Anna J. Camp, Kenneth D. Adams, Elizabeth A. Kallenbach, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Richard E. Hughes. Leonard Rockshelter Revisited: Evaluating a 70-Year-Old Claim of a Late Pleistocene Human Occupation in the Western Great Basin. American Antiquity 87(4):776–793. DOI:10.1017/aaq.2022.40. (open access)
(2022) Holcomb, Justin A., Rolfe D. Mandel, Erik Otárola-castillo, Kurt Rademaker, Richard L. Rosencrance, Katelyn N. Mcdonough, D. Shane Miller, and Brian T. Wygal. Does the Evidence at Arroyo del Vizcaíno (Uruguay) Support the Claim of Human Occupation 30, 000 years ago? PaleoAmerica 8(4):285–299. DOI:10.1080/20555563.2022.2135476.
(2022) McDonough, Katelyn N., Jaime L. Kennedy, Richard L. Rosencrance, Justin A. Holcomb, Dennis L. Jenkins, and Kathryn Puseman. Expanding Paleoindian Diet Breadth: Paleoethnobotany of Connley Cave 5, Oregon, USA. American Antiquity 87(2):303–332. DOI:10.1017/aaq.2021.141. (open access)
(2022) Smith, Geoffrey. M., Richard L. Rosencrance, and Daniel Stueber. Flaked Stone Artifacts. In, In the Shadow of the Steamboat: A Natural and Cultural History of North Warner Valley, edited by G. M. Smith, pp. 75-87. University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City.
(2021) Rosencrance, Richard L., and Amy J. Hirshman. Over the Hills and Far Away: Middle to Late Woodland Archaeology and Toolstone Conveyance at Hyre Mound (46RD1), West Virginia. North American Archaeologist 42(2):140–176. DOI:10.1177/0197693120976316.
(2021) Jazwa, Christopher S., Geoffrey M. Smith, Richard L. Rosencrance, Daron G. Duke, and Daniel Stueber. Reassessing the Radiocarbon Date from the Buhl Burial from South-Central Idaho and Its Relevance to the Western Stemmed Tradition–Clovis Debate in the Intermountain West. American Antiquity 86(1):173–182. DOI:10.1017/aaq.2020.36.
(2020) Rosencrance, Richard L., and Katelyn N. McDonough. Ten Thousand Years in the High Rock Country: New Radiocarbon Dates From Hanging Rock Shelter ( 25WA1502 ), Nevada. Nevada Archaelogist 32:30–52. (pdf)
(2019) Rosencrance, Richard L., Geoffrey M. Smith, Dennis L. Jenkins, Thomas J. Connolly, and Thomas N. Layton. Reinvestigating Cougar Mountain Cave: New Perspectives on Stratigraphy, Chronology, and a Younger Dryas Occupation in the Northern Great Basin. American Antiquity 84(3):559–573. DOI:10.1017/aaq.2019.22.
(2019) McDonough, Katelyn N., and Richard L. Rosencrance. Gifts from the Pueblo Valley: An Analysis of a Donated Collection from Far Southeastern Oregon. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology 39(2):205–221. (pdf)
(2019) Jazwa, Christopher S., and Richard L. Rosencrance. Technological Change and Interior Settlement on Western Santa Rosa Island, California. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 54:235–253. DOI:10.1016/j.jaa.2019.04.007.
(2018) Smith, Geoffrey M., Christopher S. Jazwa, Richard L. Rosencrance, and Tobin C. Bottman. A Late Prehistoric Marine-Shell Bead from Oregon’s Hawksy Walksy Valley. Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology38(2):288–300. (pdf)
(2018) Reaux, Derek J., Geoffrey M. Smith, Kenneth D. Adams, Sophia Jamaldin, Nicole D. George, Katelyn Mohr, and Richard L. Rosencrance. A First Look at the Terminal Pleistocene / Early Holocene Record of Guano Valley, Oregon, USA. PaleoAmerica 4(2):162–176. DOI:10.1080/20555563.2018.1460183.
(2018) Rosencrance, Richard L. Paleoindian Artifacts of West Virginia. PaleoAmerica 4(1):71–75. DOI:10.1080/20555563.2017.1395723.
Thesis
(2019) Rosencrance, Richard L. Assessing the Chronological Variation within Western Stemmed Tradition Projectile Points. Masters thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada, Reno. (pdf)
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