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FCR (Fire-Cracked Rock) Bibliography

Compiled by William Doleman wdoleman@unm.edu
with significant contributions by Kris Hirst, Mike Jackson, and Cynthia Tennis
October 3, 1996


Uncertainties are indicated by ???. Please feel free to help by (a) making additions, or (b) filling in blanks and making corrections. Email changes/additions to William Doleman (wdoleman@unm.edu).
Akins, Nancy
1985	Fire-cracked Rock. In The Excavation of the Cortez CO2 Pipeline
	Project Sites, 1982-1983, by Michael P. Marshall, pp. 173-177.
	Office of Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico,
	Albuquerque.

Abbott, J. T., and C. D. Frederick
1990	Proton Magnetometer Investigations of Burned Rock Middens in
	West-Central Texas: Clues to Formation Process.  Journal of
	Archaeological Science 17:535-545. 

Barber, J.
1990 	Scottish Burnt Mounds: Variations on a Theme.  In Burnt
	Offerings: International Contributions to Burnt Mound Archaeology,
	compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 98-104.  Wordwell Ltd., Academic
	Publishers, Dublin, Ireland. 

Barfield, L. and M. Hodder
1987 	Burnt Mounds as Saunas and the Prehistory of Bathing. Antiquity
	61:370-379.

Bearden, Susan E. and Joseph G. Gallagher
1980 	Experimental Thermal Alteration of Dolomite and Limestone.  In
	Evaluation of Cultural Resources at Brantley Reservoir, Eddy
	County, New Mexico, pp.  444-452. Archeology Research Program,
	Research Report number 120, Department of Anthropology, Southern
	Methodist University, Dallas.

Bellomo, Randy
1993 	A methodological approach for identifying archaeolaogical
	evidence of fire resulting from human activity.  Journal of
	Archaeological Science 20:525-553. 

Binford, L. R.
1986 	An Alyawara Day: Making Men's Knives and Beyond.  American
	Antiquity 51:547-562.
1983 	In Pursuit of the Past: Decoding the Archaeological Record.
	Thames and Hudson, New York.

Black, S.
1995	Turning Up the Heat on the Archeology of Hot-Rock Features.
	Paper presented at Workshop on Hot-Rock Features, Spring CTA
	Meeting, Austin, TX.

Blackwelder, Eliot
1927 	Fire as an Agent in Rock Weathering.  Journal of Geology
	35:134-140.
1933 	The Insolation Hypothesis of Rock Weathering.  American
	Journal of Science, 5th Series 26(152):97-113.

Brink, Jack, Milt Wright, Bob Dawe, and Doug Glau
198? 	Final Report of the 1984 Season at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo
	Jump, Alberta.  Archaeological Survey of Alberta, Manuscript
	Series No. 9, Alberta Culture Historical Resources Division,
	Edmonton.

Brink, J. and B. Dawe
1989 	Final Report of the 1985 and 1986 Field Seasons at Head-
	Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Alberta.  Archaeological Survey of
	Alberta Manuscript Series No. 16, Alberta Culture and
	Multiculturalism Historical Resources Division, Edmomton,
	Alberta, Canada.

Buckley, V. M.
1991 	Irish Fulachta Fiadh: An Overview.  In Burnt Mounds and Hot
	Stone Technology, edited by M. A. Hodder and L. H. Barfield, pp.
	39-???. Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council, West Midlands,
	England.
1990 	Experiments Using a Reconstructed Fulacht with a Variety of
	Rock Types: Implications for the Petromorphology of Fulachta
	Fiadh.  In Burnt Offerings: International Contributions to Burnt
	Mound Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 170-172.  Wordwell
	Ltd., Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Cain, Patrick J., Syd S. Peng, and Egons R. Podnieks
1975 	Rock Fragmentation by High-Frequency Fatigue.  Report of
	Investigations 8020, United States Department of the Interior,
	Bureau of Mines.

Collins, M. B., B. Ellis, and C. Dodt-Ellis
1990 	Excavations at the Camp Pearl Wheat Site (41KR243): An Early
	Archaic Campsite on  Town Creek, Kerr County, Texas.  Studies in
	Archeology 6.  Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The
	University of Texas, Austin.

Creel, D. G.
1991 	Assessing the Relationship Between Burned Rock Midden
	Distribution and Archaic Subsistence in West Central Texas.  In
	The Burned Rock Middens of Texas: An Archeological Symposium,
	edited by T.R. Hester, pp. 33-43.  Studies in Archeology 13,
	Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas,
	Austin.
1986 	A Study of Prehistoric Burned Rock Middens in West Central
	Texas.  Ph. D. dissertation, University of Arizona, Tuscon.

Dockrill, S. J.
1991 	Geophysical Survey of Burnt Mounds in the Northern Isles:
	The Magnetic Response.  In Burnt Mounds and Hot Stone Technology,
	edited by M. A. Hodder and L. H. Barfield, pp. 35-39.  Sandwell
	Metropolitan Borough Council, West Midlands, England.

Draper, John and Allan Stanfield
198? 	Draft: The Cultural Significance of Fire-cracked Rock at the
	Ozette Site: A Preliminary Study, Ms. on file, Department of
	Anthropology, Washington State University, Pullman.

Driver, H. E. and W. C. Massey
1957 	Comparative Studies of North American Indians.  Transactions
	of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 47,  The American
	Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

Duncan, R. B., and W. H. Doleman
1991 Fire-Cracked Rock Studies. In Landscape Archeology in the
	Southern Tularosa Basin, Volume 2, Testing, Excavation, and
	Analysis, edited by W. H. Doleman, R. C. Chapman, J. A. Schutt, M.
	K. Swift, and K. D. Morrison, pp. 317-344. Report No. 185-324E, Office of
	Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Fisher, J. W. and H. C. Strickland
1989 	Ethnoarchaeology Among the Efe Pygmies, Zaire: Spatial
	Organization of Campsites.  American Journal of Physical
	Anthropology 78:473-484.

Frederick C. D. and J. T. Abbott
1992 	Magnetic Prostection of Prehistoric Sites in an Alluvial
	Environment: Examples From NW and West-central Texas.  Journal of
	Field Archaeology 19:139-153.

Frison, G. C.
1983 	Stone Circles, Stone-Filled Fire Pits, Grinding Stones and
	High Plains Archaeology.  Memoir 19, Plains Anthropologist
	28(2):81-91.

Griggs, D. T.
1936 	The Factor of Fatigue in Rock Exfoliation.  Journal of
	Geology 44:781-796.

Goode, G. T.
1991 	Late Prehistoric Burned Rock Middens in Central Texas. In
	The Burned Rock Middens of Texas: An Archeological Symposium,
	edited by T. R. Hester, pp. 71-93.  Studies in Archeology 13,
	Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas,
	Austin.

Hard, R. J.
1983 	Excavations in the Caster Range Archeological District in El
	Paso, Texas. El Paso Centennial Museum Publications in
	Anthropology No. 11, University of Texas at El Paso.

Hester, T. R.
1991 	Preface.  In The Burned Rock Middens of Texas: An
	Archeological Symposium, edited by T. R. Hester, pp. v-vii.
	Studies in Archeology 13, Texas Archeological Research
	Laboratory, The University of Texas, Austin.

Hines, M. H.
1995 	Burned Rock Feature Analysis at the Wind Canyon Site,
	41HZ119.  Paper presented at Workshop on Hot-Rock Features,
	Spring CTA Meeting, Austin.

Hodder, M. A.
1990 	Burnt Mounds in the English West Midlands.  In Burnt
	Offerings: International Contributions to Burnt Mound
	Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 106-111.  Wordwell Ltd.,
	Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Honea, K. H.
1962 	The Rammadyat of Northwest Africa and the Burned Rock
	Middens of Texas, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society
	32:317-320.

Hough, Walter
1926 	Fire as an Agent of Human Culture.  Smithsonian Institution,
	Washington, DC.

House, J. H., and J. W. Smith
1975 	Experiments in Replication of Fire-Cracked Rock.  In The
	Cache River Archeological Project, assembled by M. B. Schiffer
	and J. H. House, pp. 75-80. Research Series No. 8,  Arkansas
	Archeological Survey, Fayetteville.

Howard, M. A.
1991 	Burned Rock Midden Excavations, Hearths and Botonical
	Remains.   In The Burned Rock Middens of Texas: An Archeological
	Symposium, edited by T. R. Hester, pp. 45-69.  Studies in
	Archeology 13, Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The
	University of Texas, Austin.

Hunter, J. R., and S. J. Dockrill
1990 	Recent Research into Burnt Mounds on Fair Isle, Shetland,
	and Sanday, Orkney.  In Burnt Offerings: International
	Contributions to Burnt Mound Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley,
	pp. 62-68.  Wordwell Ltd., Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Ingbar, Eric E.
1985 	Analysis of Fire-Cracked Rock and Chipped Stone Assemblages.
	In Archeological Testing at the Fairchild Site (LA 45732), Otero
	County, New Mexico, edited by Roger Anyon, pp. 44-48.  Office of
	Contract Archeology, University of New Mexico,  Albuquerque.

Jackson, M. A.
1995 	A Morphological Analysis of Fire-cracked Rocks from the
	Northern Rocky Mountain Field School, Kootenai National Forest,
	Montana. Paper presented at Workshop on Hot-Rock Features, Spring
	CTA Meeting, Austin.

Johnson, L., Jr.
1986 	A Plague of Phases.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological
	Association 57:1-26.
1991 	Early Archaic Life at the Sleeper Archaeological Site 41BC65
	of the Texas Hill Country, Blanco County, Texas.  Texas State
	Department of Highways and Public Transportation, Publications in
	Archaeology, Report No. 39. Austin.

Johnson, L., and G. T. Goode
1994 	A New Try at Dating and Characterizing Holocene Climates, as well
	as Archeological Periods, on the Eastern Edwards Plateau.
	Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Association 65:1-51. 

Jones, A. E.
1991 	The Geophysical Survey of Burnt Mounds: A Study from Acocks
	Green, Birmingham.  In Burnt Mounds and Hot Stone Technology,
	edited by M. A. Hodder and L. H. Barfield, pp. 31-39.  Sandwell
	Metropolitan Borough Council, West Midlands, England.

Larsson, T. B.
1990 	Skdrvstenshvgar: The Burnt Mounds of Sweden.  In Burnt
	Offerings: International Contributions to Burnt Mound
	Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 142-152.  Wordwell Ltd.,
	Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Lintz, C.
1989 	Experimental Thermal Discoloration and Heat Conductivity
	Studies of Caliche from Eastern New Mexico.  Geoarchaeology
	4(4):319-346.

Lovick, S. K.
1983 	Fire-Cracked Rock as Tools: Wear Pattern Analysis.  Plains
	Anthropologist 28(99):41-52.

Mauldin, R.
1994 	Small Sites in Western Texas and Southern New Mexico.
	Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Association 65:185-206.

McCourt, W. E.
1906 	Fire Tests of Some New York Building Stones. Bulletin, New
	York State Education Department. Bulletin 100, Economics and
	Geology 14, Albany.

McDowell-Loudan, Ellis E.
1983 	Fire-cracked Rock: Preliminary Experiments to Determine Its
	Nature and Significance in Archeological Contexts. The
	Chesopiean 21(1):20-29.

McParland, Pat
1976 	Experiments on Fire Broken Rock.  Manuscript in possession
	of the author.
1977 	Experiments in the Firing and Breaking of Rocks.  Calgary
	Archaeologist 5:31-33

Nixon, M. J.
1990 	Some South Cumbrian Burnt Mounds  An Initial Survey.  In
	Burnt Offerings: International Contributions to Burnt Mound
	Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 112-114.  Wordwell Ltd.,
	Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Oakes, Yvonne R.
1981 	Prehistoric Subsistence Adaptations on White Sands Missle
	Range, Laboratory of Anthropology Note 277, Museum of New
	Mexico, Santa Fe.

O'Connell, J. F.
1987 	Alyawara Site Structure and Its Archaeological Implications.
	American Antiquity 52:74-108.

Olive, M. and Y. Taborin
1989 	Nature et Fonction des Foyers Prehistoriques.  Memoires du
	Musee de Prehistoire d4lle??? de France, No. 2, Nemours, France.

Pierce, Christopher
1984 	Analysis of Cooking Stones from a Late Period Chumash
	Village.  Paper presented at the 49th Annual Meeting of the
	Society for American Archaeology, Portland, Oregon.
1987 	A Functional Classification of Fire-Altered Rock Features
	from  CA-SBr-5381, Fort Irwin, California.  Prepared for the Far
	Western Anthropological Research Group, Davis, California.
1989 	Exploring Functional Variation in Fire-altered Rocks.  Paper
	presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the Society for American
	Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Prewitt, E. R.
1991 	Burned Rock Middens: A Summary of Previous Investigations
	and Interpretations.   In The Burned Rock Middens of Texas: An
	Archeological Symposium, edited by T. R. Hester, pp. 25-32.
	Studies in Archeology 13, Texas Archeological Research
	Laboratory, The University of Texas, Austin.

Purdy, Barbara A.
1975 	Fractures for the Archeologist. In Lithic Technology, edited
	by E. Swanson, pp. 133-141.  Mouton, The Hague.

Reid, K. C.
1989 	A Material Science Perspective on Hunter-Gatherer Pottery.
	In Pottery Technology: Ideas and Approaches, edited by G.
	Bronitsky, pp. 167-180. Westview Press, Boulder.

Roll, T. E., and M. B. Smith (editors)
1982 	Libby Additional Units and Reregulating Dam Cultural
	Resources Project 1979:  Descriptive Archaeology.  Montana State
	University, Bozeman.

Russell-White, C. J.
1990a	The East Rhins of Galloway. In Burnt Offerings:
	International Contributions to Burnt Mound Archaeology, compiled
	by V. Buckley, pp. 70-76.  Wordwell Ltd., Academic Publishers,
	Dublin, Ireland.
1990b	Synthesis.  In Burnt Offerings: International Contributions
	to Burnt Mound Archaeology, compiled by V. Buckley, pp. 87-91.
	Wordwell Ltd., Academic Publishers, Dublin, Ireland.

Schutt, J. A., M. R. Binford, R. B. Duncan, and M. K. Swift
1991 	Methods of Lithic and Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis.  In
	Landscape Archeology in the Southern Tularosa Basin, Volume 2,
	Testing, Excavation, and Analysis, edited by W. H. Doleman, R. C.
	Chapman, J. A. Schutt, M. K. Swift, and K. D. Morrison, pp.
	299-313. Report No. 185-324E, Office of Contract Archeology,
	University of New Mexico, Albuquerque.

Shiner, J. L., and M. V. Shiner
1977 	Structure and Organization of a Burned Rock Midden: The
	Indian Creek Site, Real County, Texas.  Plains Anthropologist
	22(2):263-282.

Taggart, David W.
1981 	Appendix A:  Notes on the Comparative Study of Fire-Cracked
	Rock.  In Report of Phase I and II Archaeological Survey of
	Proposed M-275 Right-of-Way Through Western Oakland County, by
	Doreen Ozker and ???...

Takac, P.
1995 	Vectors of Change: Archaeomagnetic Analysis of the Context,
	Formation, and Function of Limestone Burned Rock Features in
	Central Texas.  Paper presented at Workshop on Hot-Rock Features,
	Spring CTA Meeting, Austin.

Tarr, W. A.
1915 	A Study of Some Heating Tests, and the Light They Throw on
	the Cause of the Disaggregation of Granite.  Economic Geology
	10:348-367.

Thoms, Alston V.
1986 	[still a draft?] Hot Rocks: The Short-Term Storage of Energy
	in the  Calispell Valley.  In Calispell Valley Archeological
	Project: Interim Report for 1984 and 1985 Field Seasons, edited by
	Alston V. Thoms and Greg C. Burtchard, pp. 447-477. Center for
	Northwest Anthropology, Contributions in Cultural Resource
	Management number 10, Washington State University, Pullman.
1989 	The Northern Roots of Hunter-Gatherer Intensification: Camas
	and the Pacific Northwest.  Unpublished Ph. D. dissertation,
	Washington State University, Pullman.

Various Contributors
1995 	Workshop on Hot-Rock Features.  Spring 1995 CTA Meeting,
	Austin, Texas.

Weir, F. A.
1976 	The Central Texas Archaic.  Ph. D. dissertation, Washington
	State University, Pullman.

White, Everett M. and L. Adrien Hannus
1983 	Weathering and Disintegration of Rocks at Oakwood Lake,
	South  Dakota (39 BK 7). Plains Anthropologist 28(99):53-57.

White, J. R.
1980 	A Closer Look at Clusters.  American Antiquity 45:66-74.

Williams, G.
1990	Burnt Mounds in South-West Wales.  In Burnt Offerings:
	International Contributions to Burnt Mound Archaeology, compiled
	by V. Buckley, pp. 129-140.  Wordwell Ltd., Academic Publishers,
	Dublin, Ireland.

Witkind, W. M.
1977 	An Experiment in Stone Boiling.  In Hop Hill: Culture and
	Climatic Change in Central Texas, by Joel Gunn and Royce Mahula,
	pp. 205-208.  Special Report No. 5, Center for Archaeological
	Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Yellen, J. E.
1977 	Archaeological Approaches to the Present: Models for
	Reconstructing the Past.  Academic Press, New York.

Zurel, R.
1979 	Brief Comments Regarding the Nature of Fire Cracked Rock on
	Aboriginal Sites in the Great Lakes Area.  Working Papers in
	Archaeology No. 3, Laboratory of Archaeology, Oakland University.
1982 	An Additional Note on the Nature of FCR.  Prepared for
	distributon at the October 9, 1982 meeting of the Conference on
	Michigan Archaeology.


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