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Finding Rendezvous

其他書名	An Approach to Locating Rocky Mountain Rendezvous Sites Through Use of Historic Documents, Geophysical Survey, and LiDAR
出版	University of Wyoming, 2010
ISBN	112445490X9781124454900
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BaijnQAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The general locations of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous have been known to historians through documentary evidence since the mid to late 1800s. While the approximate locations of the rendezvous sites provided through historic documents have sufficed for the placement of signs and markers commemorating these annual events, archaeologists seeking to learn more about the yearly gathering of mountain men and native peoples through excavations need a more precise area to begin their search on the landscape. The exact locations of the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous are yet unknown in the sense of an archaeologist visiting a rendezvous site, trowel in hand, and hoping to unearth a small portion of fur trade history. In this study, I present a method for moving from the approximate locations for the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous sites provided by historic documents to identifying specific rendezvous archaeological sites through use of historic documents, geophysical survey, and GIS modeling. The first paper in this dissertation examines the demographics of the rendezvous. By use of historic documents, I present a method for estimating the number of people who may have been present at the rendezvous and winter camps from 1825 through 1829. By using this method for estimating people at the rendezvous, it becomes clear more native people were in attendance at the rendezvous and winter camps than trappers and traders of European descent. Once armed with the knowledge a rendezvous site should more closely resemble the archaeological signature of a Protohistoric native camp than a historic Euroamerican archaeological site, the search for a Protohistoric native camp to be mapped with geophysical survey instruments can begin. During this study, such a search resulted in the successful mapping of a portion of the camp surrounding a fur trading post on the banks of Powder River in east-central Wyoming. The final section in the dissertation will address the issue of where and how to focus a geophysical survey in hopes of finding the Protohistoric camp signature within the potential rendezvous locations identified in the historic documents. The study focuses on identifying potential survey areas along the Green River in western Wyoming considered highly probable to contain intact buried archaeological deposits dating to at least the early 1800s. A systematic survey is proposed focusing on areas not only identified through historic documentary research as being locations for the rendezvous, but also containing sediments holding intact deposits dating to the time of the fur trade.