Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis (Investigation Type)

A non-field study of archaeological theory, method or technique. These investigations may also include broadly synthetic regional studies.

701-725 (3,478 Records)

Big Sandy Farms: a Prehistoric Agricultural Community Near Moundville, Black Warrior River Floodplain, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only H. Blaine Ensor.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area Archeological Resource Survey, 1994 Field Season (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Guy Prentice.

This resource is a citation record only, the Center for Digital Antiquity does not have a copy of this document. The information in this record has been migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and updated. Most NADB-R records consist of a document citation and other metadata but do not have the documents themselves uploaded. If you have a digital copy of the document and would like to have it curated in tDAR, please contact us at comments@tdar.org.


Bioanthropological Investigations of Historic Cemeteries: What Can We Learn From Biological, Cultural, and Mortuary Remains (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Alexandra Bybee.

Fueled primarily by urban development, the recent past has seen an increasing demand for the relocation of historic and modern cemeteries. These cemeteries hold clues to the past lives of America's earliest populations, the free and enslaved, the wealthy and poor, and the healthy and diseased. Bioanthropological investigations of historic cemeteries have the potential to provide a variety of information on the biological, cultural, and mortuary aspects of these populations. On a personal level,...


Biocultural Studies in the Gainesville Lake Area (1981)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gloria M. Caddell. Anne Woodrick. Mary C. Hill.

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Biosilica Analysis (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. L. Robinson.

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Biosilica Analysis of Three Prehistoric Archaeological Sites in the Choke Canyon Reservoir, Live Oak County, Texas; Pre-Liminary Summary of Climatic Implications (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. L. Robinson.

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Biosilicate analysis of residue in Maya dedicatory cache vessels from Blue Creek, Belize (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Bozarth. Thomas Guderjan.

Residues from nine ancient Maya dedicatory vessels were analyzed for biosilicates. In all cases, the analysis was successful in identifying plant and sponge remains that had been placed in the vessels. This analysis sheds light on ancient Maya plant use as well as ritual and religious practices.


Biostratigraphy of Peccary Cave, Newton County, Arkansas (1969)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. Carson Davis.

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The biotic provinces of North America (1943)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lee Raymond. [from old catalog] Dice.

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Birch Creek and Skiatook Reservoirs: Preliminary Report Upon Archeological Investigations in 1974 (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marshall Gettys. Others.

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The Bird of the Next Dawn: The husbandry, translocation and transformation of the turkey (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Tyr Fothergill. University of Leicester.

This thesis follows the palaeopathological and social history of the turkey, Meleagris gallopavo, over a thousand years (AD 900- c. 1900) and illuminates the evolving nature of turkey-human relationships. Interdependent analyses of zooarchaeological data and historical documentary sources were undertaken for this project. Palaeopathological and metrical data were gathered from turkey elements excavated from archaeological sites in the American Southwest, the UK and Éire; these were used with...


Birdman - more bird than man (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. Brown James.

This is an illustration and description of a shell exhibiting the Birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 303.


Birdman cup (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell cup from Spiro depicting the birdman. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 298.


Birdman cup fragments (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of two fragments of a shell cup depicting the birdman. From Spiro, Oklahoma. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 301.


Birdman gorget (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell gorget from Spiro. This gorget has birdman imagery in the Braden style. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 147.


Birdman image on pottery (2010)
IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

This is a pottery sherd from Cahokia's Tract 15B with an etched image of the birdman. Dates to about AD 1300. Photo courtesy of Tim Pauketat.


Birdman images on shell cups (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of birdman imagery on shell cups. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 170.


Birdman on shell (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text F. Kent Reilly.

This is an illustration of the birdman on a shell cup from Spiro. Reilly interprets this image as the Morning Star. From Reilly 2007 "The Petaloid Motif: A Celestial Symbolic Locative in the Shell Art of Spiro."


Birdman on shell cup, lower body (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of the birdman on a shell cup from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 299.


Birdman shell cup (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is an illustration and description of a shell cup depicting a birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 302.


Birdman shell fragments (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of several shell fragments with birdman imagery from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 304.


Birdman tablet (2010)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is the famous birdman tablet found at Cahokia. Dates to around AD 1200. Image from www.lithiccastinglab.com


Birdman with mostly human attributes (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Phillip Phillips. James Brown.

This is a description and illustration of a shell cup with a birdman from Spiro. From Phillips and Brown 1978, Plate 300.


Birds of a Feather: Osteological and Archaeological Papers from the South Pacific in Honour of R. J. Scarlett (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Atholl Anderson.

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Bison Jump Sites in the Northwestern Plains of North America: A locational Analysis (1979)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Polk.

ABSTRACT BISON JUMP SITES IN THE NORTHWESTERN PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA: A LOCATIONAL ANALYSIS BY Michael Robert Polk This study is a locational analysis of bison jump sites in the northwestern plains of North America. One hundred forty-six sites from Alberta, Montana and Wyoming were examined in an attempt to identify cultural preferences and environmental constraints which affected the site location decisions of prehistoric hunters. Bison Jump site data and associated...