Pleistocene Food SystemsWhat people eat has implications for other components of life including mobility, social organization, cooperation, and division of labor. My research is particularly interested in understanding the importance of the largest (multi-ton game) and smallest (floral) portions of the diet for Pleistocene populations.
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Publications:
2022 Kitchel, Nathaniel and Madeline E. Mackie. Plants and Subsistence During the Fluted Point Period of the Northeast, American Antiquity, 10.1017/aaq.2021.125.
2022 Koenig, Charles W., David Kilby, Christopher J. Jurgens, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Christopher W. Ringstaff, J. Kevin Hanselka, Leslie L. Bush, Charles D. Frederick, Stephen L. Black, Amanda M. Castañeda, Ken L. Lawrence, Madeline E. Mackie, and Jim I. Mead. A Folsom-age Bison Butchery Assemblage in Eagle Cave, Texas, and Implications for Early Paleoindian Rockshelter Use. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.126
2021 Mackie, Madeline and Randall Haas. Estimating the Probability of Coincidental Spatial Associations between Clovis Artifacts and Proboscidean Remains in North America, Quaternary Research 103:182-192, https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.1.
2019 Mackie, Madeline. Paleoindian-Proboscidean Interactions in the Terminal Pleistocene, PhD Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Select Presentations:
2023 McDonough, Katelyn and Madeline E. Mackie. Cooking Across the Continent: Overview of Pleistocene Archaeobotanical Remains and Exploration of Biases Affecting Botanical Visibility, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Mar 31.
2022 Kitchel, Nathaniel and Madeline E. Mackie. Plants and Subsistence During the Fluted Point Period of the Northeast, American Antiquity, 10.1017/aaq.2021.125.
2022 Koenig, Charles W., David Kilby, Christopher J. Jurgens, Lorena Becerra-Valdivia, Christopher W. Ringstaff, J. Kevin Hanselka, Leslie L. Bush, Charles D. Frederick, Stephen L. Black, Amanda M. Castañeda, Ken L. Lawrence, Madeline E. Mackie, and Jim I. Mead. A Folsom-age Bison Butchery Assemblage in Eagle Cave, Texas, and Implications for Early Paleoindian Rockshelter Use. American Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2021.126
2021 Mackie, Madeline and Randall Haas. Estimating the Probability of Coincidental Spatial Associations between Clovis Artifacts and Proboscidean Remains in North America, Quaternary Research 103:182-192, https://doi.org/10.1017/qua.2021.1.
2019 Mackie, Madeline. Paleoindian-Proboscidean Interactions in the Terminal Pleistocene, PhD Dissertation, University of Wyoming.
Select Presentations:
2023 McDonough, Katelyn and Madeline E. Mackie. Cooking Across the Continent: Overview of Pleistocene Archaeobotanical Remains and Exploration of Biases Affecting Botanical Visibility, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting, Mar 31.
La Prele Mammoth Site
The La Prele Mammoth site is an ~12,950 year old mammoth butchery site located outside Douglas, WY. Since 2014 our work on the site has confirmed the cultural association with the mammoth remains and identified a camp that is associated with the mammoth remains. The presence of a camp allows us to reconstruct a much more humanistic picture of the past including understanding diet, resource sharing, cooperation, and mobility instead of just the hunting focused imagery that often dominates this time period's reconstructions.
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Publications:
2023 Surovell, Todd A., McKenna L. Litynski, Sarah A. Allaun, Michael Buckley, Todd A. Schoborg, Jack A. Govaerts, Matthew J. O’Brien, Spencer R. Pelton, Paul H. Sanders, Madeline E. Mackie, and Robert L. Kelly. Use of Hare Bone for the Manufacture of a Clovis Bead, Scientific Reports 14:2937, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53390-9.
2022 Mackie, Madeline E, Todd A. Surovell, Spencer Pelton, Matthew O’Brien, Robert L. Kelly, George C. Frison, Robert Yohe, Steve Teteak, Beth Shapiro, and Joshua Kapp. Spatial Analysis of a Clovis Hearth Centered Activity Area at the La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming. Diversity in Open Air Site Structure Across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary, eds. Carlson, K.C. and Lee Bement. University of Colorado Press: Boulder.
2021 Surovell, Todd, Spencer Pelton, Madeline Mackie, Chase Mahan, Matthew O’Brien, Robert L. Kelly, C. Vance Haynes, and George Frison. The La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming USA: Initial Impressions from the First Five Years in Human-Elephant Interactions from Past to Present, eds. Konidaris, G. Tübingen University Press: Tübingen. Link.
2020 Mackie, Madeline E., Todd A. Surovell, Robert L. Kelly, Matthew O’Brien, Spencer Pelton, C. Vance Haynes, George C. Frison, Robert Yohe, Steve Teteak, Heather Rockwell, and Shannon Mahan. Confirming a Cultural Association at the at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming, American Antiquity 85:554-572, https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.8.
2019 Zarzycka, Sandra E., Todd A. Surovell, Madeline E. Mackie, Spencer R. Pelton, Robert L. Kelly, Paul Goldberg, Janet Dewey, and Meghan Kent. Long Distance Transport of Red Ocher by Clovis Foragers, Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 25:519-529.
2023 Surovell, Todd A., McKenna L. Litynski, Sarah A. Allaun, Michael Buckley, Todd A. Schoborg, Jack A. Govaerts, Matthew J. O’Brien, Spencer R. Pelton, Paul H. Sanders, Madeline E. Mackie, and Robert L. Kelly. Use of Hare Bone for the Manufacture of a Clovis Bead, Scientific Reports 14:2937, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-53390-9.
2022 Mackie, Madeline E, Todd A. Surovell, Spencer Pelton, Matthew O’Brien, Robert L. Kelly, George C. Frison, Robert Yohe, Steve Teteak, Beth Shapiro, and Joshua Kapp. Spatial Analysis of a Clovis Hearth Centered Activity Area at the La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming. Diversity in Open Air Site Structure Across the Pleistocene/Holocene Boundary, eds. Carlson, K.C. and Lee Bement. University of Colorado Press: Boulder.
2021 Surovell, Todd, Spencer Pelton, Madeline Mackie, Chase Mahan, Matthew O’Brien, Robert L. Kelly, C. Vance Haynes, and George Frison. The La Prele Mammoth Site, Converse County, Wyoming USA: Initial Impressions from the First Five Years in Human-Elephant Interactions from Past to Present, eds. Konidaris, G. Tübingen University Press: Tübingen. Link.
2020 Mackie, Madeline E., Todd A. Surovell, Robert L. Kelly, Matthew O’Brien, Spencer Pelton, C. Vance Haynes, George C. Frison, Robert Yohe, Steve Teteak, Heather Rockwell, and Shannon Mahan. Confirming a Cultural Association at the at the La Prele Mammoth Site (48CO1401), Converse County, Wyoming, American Antiquity 85:554-572, https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.8.
2019 Zarzycka, Sandra E., Todd A. Surovell, Madeline E. Mackie, Spencer R. Pelton, Robert L. Kelly, Paul Goldberg, Janet Dewey, and Meghan Kent. Long Distance Transport of Red Ocher by Clovis Foragers, Journal of Archaeological Sciences: Reports 25:519-529.
The Colby SiteOriginally excavated in the 1970s the Colby site contains the remains of at least seven mammoths that were killed and butchered by Clovis foragers. Beginning as a legacy collections project, this new work on the Colby site looks to determine if the assemblage is the result of a massive hunting event or persistent use of place based new 14C dates and isotopic analyses. We will also be returning to site to test for additional archaeological deposits particularly searching for a potential camp occupied during carcass processing.
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Select Presentations/Posters:
2023 Mackie, Madeline and Briana Doering. 40 Years Later: New Work on the Colby Mammoth site, Washakie Museum Archaeology Symposium, September.
2023 Mackie, Madeline E., Briana Doering, Fox Nelson, Molly Herron, and Carlton Shield Chief Gover. New Context from an Old Site: Collections Research on the Colby Mammoth Clovis Site, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (SAA), Mar 30 (poster).
2023 Fox Nelson, Briana Doering, Megan Reel, and Madeline Mackie. The Curation Crisis and the Bones of the Colby Mammoth Site, SAA, Mar 30 (poster).
2022 Doering, Briana, Molly Herron, and Madeline E. Mackie. Colby Revisited: Re-Evaluating the Chronology and Context of a Clovis Mammoth Kill Site, SAA, April 1 (poster).
2023 Mackie, Madeline and Briana Doering. 40 Years Later: New Work on the Colby Mammoth site, Washakie Museum Archaeology Symposium, September.
2023 Mackie, Madeline E., Briana Doering, Fox Nelson, Molly Herron, and Carlton Shield Chief Gover. New Context from an Old Site: Collections Research on the Colby Mammoth Clovis Site, Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting (SAA), Mar 30 (poster).
2023 Fox Nelson, Briana Doering, Megan Reel, and Madeline Mackie. The Curation Crisis and the Bones of the Colby Mammoth Site, SAA, Mar 30 (poster).
2022 Doering, Briana, Molly Herron, and Madeline E. Mackie. Colby Revisited: Re-Evaluating the Chronology and Context of a Clovis Mammoth Kill Site, SAA, April 1 (poster).
Radiocarbon Database
Large compilations of radiocarbon dates are frequently used as a proxy for reconstructing populations in the past, but also can be value resources for understanding regional trends, holes in research, and encourage open-access resources. I have been involved in the Populating a Radiocarbon Database of North America project which collected >104,000 dates from the lower 48 states. This dataset can now be accessed through CARD.
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Publications:
2022 Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, James Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, and Andrew White. A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States. American Antiquity, 10.1017/aaq.2021.157.
2022 Bird, Darcy, Lux Miranda, Marc Vander Linden, Erick Robinson, Chris Nicholson, R. Kyle Bocinsky, José Capriles, Judson Bird Finley, Eugenia M. Gayo, Adolfo Gil, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Julie Hoggarth, Andrea Kay, Emma Loftus, Umberto Lombardo, Madeline Mackie, Alessio Palmissano, Steinar Solheim, Robert L. Kelly, and Jacob Freeman. P3k14c - A Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates, Scientific Data 9:27 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7
2022 Kelly, Robert L., Madeline E. Mackie, Erick Robinson, Jack Meyer, Michael Berry, Matthew Boulanger, Brian F. Codding, Jacob Freeman, Carey James Garland, Joseph Gingerich, Robert Hard, James Haug, Andrew Martindale, Scott Meeks, Myles Miller, Shane Miller, Timothy Perttula, James Railey, Ken Reid, Ian Scharlotta, Jerry Spangler, David Hurst Thomas, Victor Thompson, and Andrew White. A New Radiocarbon Database for the Lower 48 States. American Antiquity, 10.1017/aaq.2021.157.
2022 Bird, Darcy, Lux Miranda, Marc Vander Linden, Erick Robinson, Chris Nicholson, R. Kyle Bocinsky, José Capriles, Judson Bird Finley, Eugenia M. Gayo, Adolfo Gil, Jade d’Alpoim Guedes, Julie Hoggarth, Andrea Kay, Emma Loftus, Umberto Lombardo, Madeline Mackie, Alessio Palmissano, Steinar Solheim, Robert L. Kelly, and Jacob Freeman. P3k14c - A Synthetic Global Database of Archaeological Radiocarbon Dates, Scientific Data 9:27 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01118-7
Children in the Archaeological RecordOften archaeology focuses on the activities of adults given their higher visibility in the archeological record. However, we know children must have been influential in the past, just like they are today. I've worked on methods to identify children's visibility in the archaeological record in order to create a much more comprehensive and humanistic picture of the past.
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Publications
2015 Mackie, Madeline E., Todd Surovell, and Matthew O’Brien. Identifying Stone Alignments Created by Adults and Children: A Case Study from a Dukha Reindeer Herder Summer Camp, Khövsgöl Aimag, Mongolia. Sibirica 14(2):29-44, https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2015.140202.
2015 Mackie, Madeline E. Estimating age and sex: Paleodemographic identification using rock art hand sprays, an application in Johnson County, Wyoming. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3:333-341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.06.023.
2014 Mackie, Madeline E. Determining the Age and Sex of Hand Spray Artists, Johnson County, Wyoming. MA Thesis, University of Wyoming.
2015 Mackie, Madeline E., Todd Surovell, and Matthew O’Brien. Identifying Stone Alignments Created by Adults and Children: A Case Study from a Dukha Reindeer Herder Summer Camp, Khövsgöl Aimag, Mongolia. Sibirica 14(2):29-44, https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2015.140202.
2015 Mackie, Madeline E. Estimating age and sex: Paleodemographic identification using rock art hand sprays, an application in Johnson County, Wyoming. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 3:333-341, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2015.06.023.
2014 Mackie, Madeline E. Determining the Age and Sex of Hand Spray Artists, Johnson County, Wyoming. MA Thesis, University of Wyoming.