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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Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca
PROJECT Charles C. Di Peso.

CASAS GRANDES, a three-volume set, is the fascinating narrative of the monumental excavation and research which have been accomplished by The Amerind Foundation over the past fifteen years. Dr. Charles Di Peso and his colleagues have proposed new and unique theories concerning the people of the Gran Chichimeca and the development, dissemination and decline of their cultures. This massive publication, documenting one of the most significant of archaeological investigations, will be a landmark of...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 1, Preceramic - Viejo Periods (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

"The archaeological zone of Casas Grandes lies within this unknown expanse. Its cultural core is that prehistoric metropolis of which Bandelier counseled: I also venture to suggest that the earliest possible date the ruins of Casas Grandes be thoroughly investigated, since excavations, if systematically conducted, cannot fail to produce valuable results." -Bandelier, A.D. 1892 Comments such as these kindled the flame of curiosity and directed the Amerind Foundation, Inc., to turn its...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 2, Medio Period (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

It is believed that sometime around the year A.D. 1060 a group of sophisticated Mesoamerican merchants came into the valley of the Casas Grandes and inspired the indigenous Chichimecans to build the city of Paquime over portions of an older Viejo Period village. These foreign donors may have been drawn here by specific information supplied to them by their family-affiliated spying vanguards, who perhaps lived with the frontiersmen during the last phase of the Viejo Period. These organizers who...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 3, Tardio and Espanoles Periods (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

The Chichimecan Revolt of the 1340s tore asunder the weakened body politic of the Paquime province and in so doing radically changed the settlement pattern in the old kingdom. In the Robles Phase, the city, along with some satellite villages in the Casas Grandes Valley, was abandoned and the political power, as well as the economic wealth, shifted to such northerly towns as were located in the Zuni, Hopi, Mogollon, and the eastern Anasazi-Chichimecan homelands. Some of the Paquime artisans may...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 4, Architecture and Dating Methods (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

In the case of The Joint Casas Grandes Expedition, correlating the past in terms of the Christian calendar required considerable assistance from members of many other scientific disciplines who were not directly involved with the actual excavations. This scholastic absenteeism created a few communication problems, but in every case the effort of informative dialogue proved very worthwhile, inasmuch as it led to the re-creation of a Paquimian historical continuum, which was one of the primary...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 5, Architecture (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

The serpentine mound after which Unit 11 was named was located in Blocks 22 and 23, extending slightly into Block 24, of the Sanchez Bjanco map. To the E, in Blocks 32, 33, 42, and 43, was the house-cluster. Unit 11 was entirely surrounded by an open expanse, with Unit 10 to the NE and Reservoir 2 further to the E. The house-cluster measured 68.30 m. in length on the N-S axis and 56.80 m. in width on the E-W axis, an area of 3,200 sq. m. Included within the house-cluster were 25 single story...


Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 8, Stone and Metal Bone, Perishables, Commerce, Subsistence, and Burials (1974)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

During the course of excavations a total of 885 bone artifacts was recovered. Four (0.5%) of these were in Viejo Period association, 877 (99.1%) belonged to the Medio Period, and four (0.5%) to the San Antonio Phase of the Espafioles Period. All of the Viejo Period specimens were utilitarian implements and included a plaiting tool, a coarse coil basketry awl, and two other awls with broken tips. These were simply made, undecorated items- three were splinter tools and one was a split grooved...


Ceramic Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of ceramic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.


Ceramic Artifact Photographs, Field School at Sites 12G9 and 12G10 1975-1976 (2012)
IMAGE Veterans Curation Program.

Photographs of ceramic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed site 12G9 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.


The Changing Physical Environment of the Hopi Indians of Arizona (1942)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Tilton Hack.

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...


Charles McKenzie's Narratives of the "Mississouri Indians:" A New Transcription (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: system user

The documents that follow are new literal transcriptions of several handwritten narratives describing the experiences and observations of Charles McKenzie among the Hidatsa and Mandan Indians from 1804 to 1806. They were originally published in 1889-90 by Louis Francois Rodrigue Masson as part of a collection of first-hand accounts of the fur trading operations of the North west Company (Masson 1960). These transcriptions are an interim product of a larger, in-progress study undertaken by W....


Cheyenne (1905)
DOCUMENT Citation Only G. A. Dorsey.

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Cheyenne and Arapaho Kinship System (1955)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred R. Eggan.

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Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life (Vols. 1 and 2) (1923)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George B. Grinnell.

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Chieftainship (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only George E. Marcus.

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Childhood Gender Diversity and Transgender Medicine in Philadelphia, PA (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joshua Franklin.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As transgender and gender-nonconforming identities become more visible in medicine, policy, and the media, gender affirming medical care is increasingly seen as acceptable and necessary. Yet while childhood gender has long been the subject of clinical research, the impact of specialized medical care on young people and their families is poorly understood. Given the racialized and class-based...


Chippewa Customs (1929)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frances Densmore.

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Clark, Lincoln, and White Pine Counties Groundwater Development Project Ethnographic Assessment (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

The Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) has applied to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for rights-of-way (ROW) to construct and operate a system of groundwater pumping and conveyance facilities in southeastern Nevada. The purpose of the proposed groundwater development (GWD) Project is to develop and convey groundwater resources that the Nevada Division of Water Resources (Office of the State Engineer) has or may permit to SNWA in Spring, Snake, Cave, Dry Lake, and Delamar valleys for use...


A Class III Survey, Archival Research, and Historic Summary of Cementerio Lindo, AZ T:12:279 (ASM), in Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Laurene Montero. Korri Turner. Greta Gomez. Mark Hackbarth. Jean Reynolds.

Cementerio Lindo is a historic cemetery that was used by Maricopa County as a burial location between 1890 and 1952. The survey and archival research project was conducted at the request of COP Archaeology Office to determine the nature and extent of cultural resources within Cementerio Lindo prior to proposed improvements to the grounds. The project area is considered a cultural resource, and was assigned the site designation AZ T:12:279 (ASM). Approximately 632 surface grave markers were...


Cochiti: a New Mexico Pueblo, Past and Present (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles H. Lange.

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A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400 (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Saul L. Hedquist.

Turquoise is synonymous with the U.S. Southwest, occurring naturally in relative abundance and culturally prized for millennia. As color and material, turquoise is fundamental to the worldviews of numerous indigenous groups of the region, with notable links to moisture, sky, and personal and familial vitality. For Pueblo groups in particular, turquoise and other blue-green minerals hold a prominent place in myth, ritual, aesthetics, and cosmology. They continue to be used as important offerings,...


A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400
PROJECT Saul L. Hedquist.

Turquoise is synonymous with the U.S. Southwest, occurring naturally in relative abundance and culturally prized for millennia. As color and material, turquoise is fundamental to the worldviews of numerous indigenous groups of the region, with notable links to moisture, sky, and personal and familial vitality. For Pueblo groups in particular, turquoise and other blue-green minerals hold a prominent place in myth, ritual, aesthetics, and cosmology. They continue to be used as important offerings,...


Community Education (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nelson B. Henry.

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Confirmed Tracks (2016)
DATASET Will Russell.

Data on confirmed racetracks


Constitutions, Pedigrees and Traditions: C. Olosega (Island) (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Augustin Kramer.

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