Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

This is research that focuses on the systematic description and analysis of cultural systems or lifeways. These studies of contemporary people and cultures rely heavily on participant observation as well as interviews, oral histories, and review of relevant documents. Ethnoarchaeological studies are a subset of this kind of research that investigate correlations between traditional contemporary cultures and patterns in the archaeological record.

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1539 – Artifacts and Archaeology from Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s Potano Encampment (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

Published by Academic Press Journal - Division of UK Scholarly Open Access The site identified in the Florida Master Site File as MR03538 was the location of one of Hernando de Soto’s early camps during the 1539 entrada and was in later use during the seventeenth century Spanish mission and ranching periods. This previously unknown First Spanish Cultural Period site is located between Ocala and Gainesville, Florida on the wetlands associated with Orange Lake. The European artifact...


1926-1930 Pageant at Compound B, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
PROJECT Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This project includes images, documents and maps regarding yearly pageants held at Compound B at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument between 1926 through 1930.


1957 Gladwin, Harold Sterling, A History of the Ancient Southwest (1957)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Harold S. Gladwin.

This book regards the histories of the Southwest and its peoples from approximately 200 A.D. to 1450 A.D.


2014 Southeastern Archaeology Publication Survey Data (2014)
DATASET Bardolph Dana. VanDerwarker Amber.

These data are the results of a survey disseminated to the Southeastern Archaeology (SEAC) membership in March 2014. The survey was designed to to better understand authorial behavior (i.e., what factors contribute to decisions about manuscript submission and publication rates among southeastern archaeologists). Our goal was to solicit feedback from SEAC members in all job settings (students, academics, CRM, government, museum, etc.), including those who have never published research or do not...


45th Space Wing Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan 2015-2019 (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kyle D. Brown.

This Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan (ICRMP) for the 45th Space Wing (45 SW) has been prepared in accordance with Air Force Instruction 32-7065 (AFI 32-7065), and provides goals, standards, directions, and guidelines for the proper management of historic and prehistoric cultural resources at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB), Malabar Transmitter Annex (MTA), and Jonathan Dickinson Missile Tracking Annex (JDMTA), Florida.


611th Air Support Group Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the 611th Air Support Group cultural heritage resources collection.


Academic Literature Review of Land and Resource Use of the Utah Navajo (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Graham Worley-Hood. Gavin Noyes.

Literature review for the land and resource use of Utah Navajo. Includes a general history and list of important places and resources.


Adoption and Land Tenure Among Arno Marshallese (1972)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Michael A. Rynkiewich.

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.


African American Settlement Patterns on the Upper Peninsula Zone of Delaware, 1730-1940+ / -: Historic Context (1995)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bradley Skelcher.

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.


After Risk: New Economies of Environmental Care and Collaboration in Coastal Alaska (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2019)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Hebert.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. What does it mean to fight for environmental futures through the language and practice of care and collaboration? Which ways of interacting with the environment are valorized and cultivated, and who or what gains power? In the US state of Alaska, new livelihoods are increasingly prominent in rural regions, as historically dominant forms of state- and industry-driven resource extraction are joined...


American Indians and the Old Spanish Trail (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Rebecca S. Toupal. Sean M. O'Meara. Richard Arnold.

The purpose of this study is to provide an ethnohistoric and ethnographic assessment of selected contemporary communities along the Old Spanish Trail.


American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 Section 110 Compliance Report for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District NHPA, Cultural Resources Investigations Technical Report No. 33, Volume 2 National Register of Historic Places Evaluation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Jacksonville District Antilles Office, 400 Fernandez Junco Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Beth Reed. J. W. Joseph. Hernan Bustello.

John Milner Associates, Inc. (JMA) was contracted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), St. Louis District, as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted by Congress in 2009, to conduct a Section 110 National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) evaluation of the Antilles Office (AO) compound located at 400 Fernandez Junco Avenue, San Juan, Puerto Rico. New South Associates (New South) completed the survey under the direction of JMA. The survey was conducted under...


Amistad National Recreation Area, Del Rio, Texas American Indian Tribal Affiliation Study Phase I: Ethnohistoric Literature Review (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy A. Kenmotsu. Mariah F. Wade.

This document presents the results of an archival study focusing on the native groups that have or may have historical ties to the lands of the Amistad National Recreation Area (Amistad NRA). Its purpose is to identify those groups who may have affiliations with these lands for the National Park Service in order that park planners can solicit input from modern Native Americans. However, the document has potential utility for other federal and state agencies. Two of these agencies are the Federal...


The Analysis of a Late Holocene Bison Skull from Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, and Its Implications for Understanding the HIstory and Ecology of Bison in the Intermountain West (1997)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth P. Cannon.

In 1995 the skull of a subadult male bison was recovered from the cutbank of Fawn Creek, Lemhi County, Idaho, by a ranger for the Salmon-Challis National Forest. After slowly drying the skull for about a year it was turned over to the Midwest Archeological Center in order to be stabilized and analyzed for clues to the ecology of Late Holocene bison in the Intermountain West. A number of analytical techniques were applied to the skull in order to understand its age of deposition and ecology....


The Analysis of a Late Holocene Bison Skull from the Ashley National Forest, Utah (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Kenneth P. Cannon.

In 2003 a partial bison skull was recovered by Ashley National Forest archeologist Brian Storm from an elevation of 3840 m (12,600 ft) AMSL in the Uinta Mountains. The partial skull consists of a portion of the frontal, occipital region, and horn cores including horn sheaths. The presence of the horn sheaths is of particular interest for the ecological information they can provide. Through the analysis of the individual cones of the horn sheath a record of the animal’s dietary and migration...


Analyzing Activity Areas (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Susan Kent.

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.


Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley (1848)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ephraim George Squier. Edwin Hamilton Davis.

This book was the first publication on any subject issued by the Smithsonian Institution. It is one of the most important and significant publications on the subject of ancient American archaeology. The digital copy available here is a copy of the first edition of the report. In 1998 the Smithsonian Institution Press published an edition of the full report with a detailed, interesting, and very useful introductory essay by David J. Meltzer. This tDAR record originally was created from...


Ancient Polynesian Society (2002)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Irving Goldman.

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.


Annotated Bibliography for Ethnographic Study of Cultural Affiliation of the Uinta and Great Salt Lake Variants of Fremont in Utah (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text T.J. Ferguson.

This annotated bibliography was prepared as part of an project sponsored by the Bureau of Reclamation to document ethnographic information relating to ten tribes claiming cultural affiliation with the Uinta and Great Salt Lake variants of the northern Fremont archaeological culture. The research documents existing anthropological information pertinent to the implementation of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). At the outset of the project, nine tribes claimed...


Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park, Spruce-Tree House (1909)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

Fewkes' report on the site of Spruce-Tree House, Mesa Verde National Park. The report describes the ancient architecture and some of the contents of the site, which Fewkes investigated in 1907. He also includes a long section of the 1892 publication by Nordenksiold (The Land of the Cliff Dwellers) describing his earlier investigation of the site.


Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes (1873)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Jones, Jr..

Charles C. Jones' classic work of Southeastern archaeology and ethnohistory was the result of observations on his extensive collection (nearly 20,000 specimens in the 1890s), his field observations, and his correspondence with other researchers and scholars of the time. In the book, he documents a number of archaeological sites (such as Stallings Island and Etowah) and describes objects in the collection in comparison to similar items found throughout the Southeast and Midwest. Moreover, he...


Appendix 10.2: Obsidian (2012)
DATASET Robert J. Hoard.

Distribution of obsidian in the Arkansas City project collection. Source, as determined by x-ray diffraction, provided when known.


Appendix 10.3: Turquoise (2012)
DATASET Robert J. Hoard.

Turquoise from the Arkansas City project sites.


Appendix 11.10. Provenience and Comparisons of Cord-Marked Sand-Tempered Shards (2012)
DATASET C. Martin Stein.

Appendix 11.10. Provenience and comparisons of cord-marked sand-tempered sherds, from the Arkansas City project


Appendix 11.11. Provenience of Balls, Coils and Lumps of Clay (2012)
DATASET C. Martin Stein.

Appendix 11.11. Provenience of balls, coils and lumps of clay from the Arkansas City project