Oklahoma (State / Territory) (Geographic Keyword)

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A spear thrower from Oklahoma (1937)

DOCUMENT Citation Only W E Baker. A V Kidder.

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...

The Spear-Thrower from 15,000 Years Ago to the Present (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Campbell Grant.

J. Whittaker: Nice summary, nothing new, emphasis on rock art, California and W US, several drawings, summarizes ethnographic evidence. Grant experiments with Basketmaker replica: 200', accurate 30-50', weights give more power at close range, don't help distance.

Spears, Darts, and Arrows: Late Woodland Hunting Techniques in the Upper Ohio Valley (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael J Shott.

J. Whittaker: Shift from notched or stemmed to generally smaller triangular bifaces in eastern N. America between 1500 and 1200 B.P. often interpreted as introduction of bow and arrow. Numerous theories of cultural change discussed: increased hunting and warfare efficiency, fall of the Hopewell, population dispersals, etc. Test with data from two late Woodland sites. Childers site, 1295 B.P. wide range native domesticates and wild plants, mostly late notched point forms e.g. Chesser and...

Spearthrower (2004)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Doug Leeth.

J. Whittaker: 120 Min. DVD. Starts with info on WAA and ISAC. Richard Lyons outlines prehistory with his board of different models, emphasizing Webb’s Indian Knoll forms, with bannerstone toward hook. Also Eskimo models and Basketmaker-inspired form. Promotes atlatl leading to bow because both flex. DL: Throwing Techniques and atlatl construction, shows several modern models, 2 grips – forward (split finger) or to side, likes former and Bracken’s version, blames closed fist side grip for tendon...

Special events and their impact on museums: the eleven commandments of public programs (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ken Yellis.

Special Report On the Spiro Mounds To Region Three, July 1936 (1936)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Erik K. Reed.

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.

Specialized Pottery Production in Antiquity in the Southwestern United States (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David Doyel.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Production of pottery for exchange and/or for markets was an important component of socio-economic systems in the prehistory of the Southwestern United States. Specialized production has been documented among societies of various levels of complexity in diverse settings from the Arizona Strip in the north to the Sonoran Desert in the south. Important...

Spiders and Mud Daubers at LA112420, an Early Developmental Pithouse in Sandoval County, NM (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rebecca Wells. Matthew Leister. Sandra Brantley. Kenneth Brown.

This is an abstract from the "Byways to the Past: An American Highway Archaeology Symposium" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Mud dauber nests are uncommon in archaeological contexts, but when preserved, are usually present as a result of having been burned in structures or other sheltered features. Approximately 70 nests have been examined from sites in the Midwest, Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, a few of which contained charred spiders and wasp...

Spinning (bunny) tails: an adventure in experimental archaeology (1996)

DOCUMENT Citation Only S R Wilson.

The spiral conductor of Charles Grafton Page: Reconstructing experience with the body, more options, and ambiguity (2011)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Cavicchi.

Spirits And Spirituality: Drinking, Smoking, And Racial Uplift In 19th Century Nantucket, MA (2020)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John T. Crawmer.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "An Archaeology Of Freedom: Exploring 19th-Century Black Communities And Households In New England." , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Boston University and UMass Boston excavations at the Nantucket African Meeting House and neighboring Boston-Higginbotham House provide a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between institutions and individual materiality. Throughout the 19th century, African...

Spiritual Wayfarers and Enslaved African Muslims: New insights into Yarrow Mamout, Muslim Slaves and American Pluralism (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Muhammad Fraser-Rahim.

This paper will examine the encounter between Africa, Islam and American history in the antebellum period of the U.S from first hand accounts of enslaved Africans. Yarrow Mamout was a Muslim Fulani enslaved in 1752, and manumitted in 1796. He purchased property in Georgetown in 1800, and there is currently an archaeological investigation on his former property. Using original Arabic documents, this research explores the spirituality, literacy and religious tolerance of enslaved African Muslims...

Spiro and Mississippian Antiquities from the McDonald Collection (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Spiro Archaeology: 1979 Excavations (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Daniel Rogers. Others.

Spiro Archaeology: 1980 Research (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Daniel Rogers.

Spiro Archaeology: the Plaza (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. Daniel Rogers. Mike Moore. John Stanley.

Spiro Art and Its Mortuary Contexts (1975)