California (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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Women in 16thCentury San Juan, Puerto Rico: Material Culture and Gender Role Contradictions (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julissa A. Collazo López.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Considering Frontiers Beyond the Romantic: Spaces of Encroachment, Innovation, and Far Reaching Entanglements" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper will address women’s role in 16thcentury San Juan, Puerto Rico, through documentary sources produced by the Royal Treasury. Their role made part of the sociocultural transformations that were caused by the intensity of the Spanish conquest in the so called...

Women Warriors among Central California Hunter-Gatherers: Egalitarians to the Last Arrow (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Al Schwitalla. Marin Pilloud. Terry Jones.

This is an abstract from the "Women of Violence: Warriors, Aggressors, and Perpetrators of Violence" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Participation of females in inter-group combat is well-attested in the historic and ethnographic record of central California, but is often overlooked and/or trivialized in contemporary archaeological research. Drawing from the Central California Bioarchaeological Database (CCBD) that includes information on more than...

Women's Leadership and Ritual Specialization in Coast Miwok and Kashia Pomo Cultures (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sandra Hollimon.

This is an abstract from the "AD 1150 to the Present: Ancient Political Economy to Contemporary Materiality—Archaeological Anthropology in Honor of Jeanne E. Arnold" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Employing theoretical and interpretive frameworks influenced by the research of Jeanne E. Arnold, I examine the roles of women in the ritual organizations of these two Native California cultures. I address the antiquity of these ritual systems and the...

Women’s Time Allocation Trade-Offs in an Intensive Foraging Economy Led to Future Discounting Reproductive Behavior (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alexandra Greenwald.

This is an abstract from the "Life Is Risky: Human Behavioral Ecological Approaches to Variable Outcomes " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Population growth during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly (MCA) (1100–600 BP) and into the Late period (~600–180 BP) in Central California drove increased intensification and reliance on low-ranking, low-risk food sources, primarily acorn and small seeds inland, and shellfish and small schooling fish on the bay...

The Wonder House of Stone (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Flanigan.

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.

Wood / Forney Residence 3225 2nd Avenue San Diego, California 92103 (1998)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kathleen Flanigan.

Wood and Associates Geothermal Exploratory Site 4 Arr 05-04-355 (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas Faust.

WOOD AND CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF SAMPLES FROM B. F. SISK DAM, CALIFORNIA (2009)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Two wood samples and eight charcoal samples were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These samples were collected from Bench 5 and Bench 4 at the B. F. Sisk Dam in central California. Samples were identified, and radiocarbon dates were obtained on nine samples.

Wood and Wampum: Transformative Expressions of Indigenous Power (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Bruchac.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Beyond Ornamentation: New Approaches to Adornment and Colonialism" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. While surveying wampum in museum collections, I encountered a unique category of ethnographic objects: Northeastern Native American wooden clubs and bowls embedded with wampum beads. These seventeenth century objects include beads that — from the obvious evidence of drilled holes and traces of fiber weft —...

The Wood Projectile Point Penetration Study (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William B Butler.

J. Whittaker: Spoof journal title of informal report on butchery experiments with circus elephant “Margie” in Denver, June 1979. Includes butchery account by Rippeteau, Clovis thrusting spear experiment by Bruce Huckell. Other participants included B. Bradley, M. Wormington, G. Frison. Butler made 2 darts of pine dowel, 122 cm long, 92 and 99 gm, apparently unfletched, with sharpened ends, one fire-hardened. Penetration poor, only 3-7 cm when thrown from 3-4 m away into belly skin. Suggests...

The wood that sings. Stringed musical instruments of the Southwest (2010)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Wescott.

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 EXARC Bibliography, originally compiled by Roeland Paardekooper, and updated. Most of these 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 using the...

Wood Work: Excavating the Wilderness Economy of New York’s Adirondack Mountains (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Hadley F. Kruczek-Aaron.

At the end of the 19th century, New York's legislature responded to the clarion call of conservationists concerned for the state's diminishing timber resources and threatened watershed by creating the Adirondack Forest Preserve, which kept millions of acres of public land in northern New York "forever wild." At the same time, the Adirondack logging industry witnessed tremendous growth on account of expanded railroad networks and paper industry innovations that opened up new areas of private land...

Woodcamp Creek Timber Sale Arr 05-17-712 (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Walter Schlager.

Woodchuck Basin Access Trail; Cultural Resource Inventory Report #524; Alpine County, California (1991)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Francis.

Wooden Features on the Jicarilla Apache Nation: An Analysis of Navajo and Apache Land Use (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Catherine Jalbert. John Hall.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Jicarilla Apache Nation (JAN) reservation was established in Northern New Mexico in 1887 with additional lands added to the southern boundary in 1907-08. Today, the reservation comprises approximately 879,917-acres of pinyon-juniper uplands and sagebrush flats in lower elevations. Prior to the establishment of the JAN reservation, these lands comprised...

Wooden Histories: Narratives of Rural Abandonment and Disappearing Landmarks (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William L Donaruma. Ian Kuijt. Sarah Seaberg.

The post 1820 wooden barns of the American mid-west are both physical structures, made of large beams, pegs and stone foundations, and silent witnesses to the dynamic interface between local, national and global social and economic changes. Drawing upon research in rural Indiania, this presentation explores the interface of regional historical research, personal interviews, and visual recording, to explore the process and potential contributions of documentary filmmaking in narrating local...

Wooden war club (2010)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul Campbell.

Woodhenge: Work of a Genius (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Norrish.

Woodland House Finished (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard Norrish.

Woodlands Land Exchange. 5PP (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Marilyn Mlazovsky.

Woodleaf Restoration Arr 05-11-37 (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alan Carlson.

Woodmancy's House (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark Q. Sutton.

Wooliver Timber Sale Arr 05-05-289 (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Randall R. David.

Woolsey Wildlife Burn Arr 05-17-666 (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nolan W. Smith.

Wool’d You Be My Neighbor: Excavation of a German Immigrant Household in Providence, RI (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alex J. Marko. Miriam A. W. Rothenberg. Evan I. Levine.

This is a paper/report submission presented at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Since 2015, Brown University’s “The Archaeology of College Hill” class has excavated the former home of A. Albert Sack and his family. Sack was a German immigrant to Providence, who owned several wool mills in the city and was of some local prominence. Built in 1884, the house was occupied by Sack and his descendants for some fifty years. In 1939, Moses Brown School acquired the...