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Assessing Paleoenvironmental and Geomorphic Variability in Relationship to Paleoindian Site Burial; Centennial Valley, Montana by Hillary A. Jones, Master of Science Utah State University, 2019 Major Professor: Dr. Judson B. Finley Department: Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology Wave action along the shores of Lima Reservoir in Centennial Valley, Montana is actively eroding the southern margins of three neighboring Paleoindian sites. Despite ostensible similarity among the sites, major taphonomic differences are apparent in exposed sediments. Shoreline cutbank exposures one-to-five meters high connect the sites and reveal a complicated geomorphic history. Although each site contains artifact evidence of terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene occupations, Paleoindian components at these three localities occur in very different contexts: one is buried while the other two are apparent surface scatters. These discrepancies raise the question of what geomorphic variables caused differences among late Quaternary sediment sequences in the area encompassing the three sites. Furthermore, as burial promotes site structure preservation and is a key consideration for assessing NRHP significance, these differences prompt the management question of which other landforms in the valley could contain buried cultural material and which preclude the possibility. In order to answer these questions, I used a multi-pronged approach including optically stimulated luminescence dating,