Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Shaffer.

This paper explores an example of cultural transmission from Neolithic to modern times in central and southern Italy: the passing on of architectural knowledge through agricultural practice. Excavation and analysis of wattle and daub buildings from the Stentinello period (6th and 5th millennia B.C.) of Calabria and observation of their 20th-century counterparts prompted study of the continuation of this architectural tradition. Several constructional components have multiple utility in rural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Gary Shaffer.

In the past two decades there has been increasing archaeological research which explicitly investigates how cultural elements may be learned by individuals in new generations. This paper, a revision of a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, explores an example of such cultural transmission in central and southern Italy: the passing on of architectural knowledge through agricultural practice. It documents from archaeological finds and historical...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Hannah Z. Johnson. Phillip T. Dukes. Stephanie C. De Sola. Kristen Simmons.

Ethnography and ethnographic synthesis for the Solar Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Solar Energy Study Areas in Portions of Arizona, California, Nevada, and Utah. The proposed Escalante Valley solar energy zone (SEZ) is located in Iron County, Utah. The Escalante Valley SEZ American Indian study area was traditionally occupied, used, aboriginally owned, and historically related to the Numic-speaking peoples of the Great Basin and western Colorado Plateau. The SEZ American...

DOCUMENT Citation Only A. Hawkins.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text J. W. Powell. Cyrus Thomas.

The Twelfth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology contains J. W. Powell's description of the Bureau's plans and operations in the fiscal year 1890 - 1891. The majority of the report is Cyrus Thomas' accompanying paper entitled "Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology." Thomas documents the Bureau's directive to examine the mounds constructed throughout the Midwest and Eastern Woodlands, from the Southeast north to the Great Lakes region. His report describes mounds in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

This volume report is a detailed document annually submitted to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. While it does provide some information of national context most of the document focuses on 2 reports submitted by Jesse W. Fewkes: "Casa Grande, Arizona" and "Antiquities of the Upper Verde River and Walnut Creek Valleys, Arizona. Fewkes' report, "Casa Grande, Arizona," is described in the general introduction to the BAE report as the final report of his work at Casa Grande. A...

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ruskamp.

This paper documents and offers translations for two sets of ancient, highly complex inscriptions readable as Chinese that were pecked into the rocks of Arizona and New Mexico an estimated 2,500 years ago. Here is what appears to be conclusive epigraphic evidence that Chinese explorers not only reached the Americas in pre-Columbian times but also interacted positively with Native populations, sharing both intellectual and cultural information.

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Classification and Typology for PreColumbian Entheogen Paraphernalia, of the objects used to collect, srore, prepare, and administer Entheogens in PreColumbian cultures throughout the history of the hemisphere

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon. Stephanie Hanna.

The U.S. Department of the Interior released these 13 press releases about the examination and determination of cultural affiliation for the Kennewick Man remains.

DOCUMENT Citation Only United States Congress.

United States Congressional Record 115th Congress, 1st Session Issue: Vol. 163, No. 193 US Congressional Record honors the discovery of Hernando de Soto's 1539 Encampment and the lost Native American town of Potano, by the University of Florida professors, Dr. Fred A. White and Dr. Michele C. White, and University of Florida Anderson Scholar and History Honors Graduate, Ethan A. White. This newly discovered archaeological site is the oldest confirmed New World contact site in the United...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Rick Randle. William L . Taylor. Eccles Broadcast Center, UT.

An oral history narrative from an interview with World War II veteran, William (Bill) L. Taylor., conducted by Rick Randle at Eccles Broadcast Center.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kelli S Brasket.

This document is a Section 106 report on the Identification of Historic Properties and Assessment of Adverse Effects for the K1, K4, K6, K7, and K8 Feeder Line Replacement Project at Vandenberg Air Force Base (VAFB), Santa Barbara County, California. The Area of Potential Effects (APE) was defined and delineated by VAFB archaeologists. An Area of Direct Impact (ADI) was developed to include those areas that would sustain ground disturbance during demolition and construction. The APE contained 17...

DOCUMENT Citation Only B. A. Nicholson.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Roy W. Meyer.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text William H. Davenport.

70 photographs of village life on the Santa Cruz Islands from CD that accompanies Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lara Rosenoff Gauvin.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Seven years after the guns ceased to thunder in Northern Uganda, and four years after people left the squalid displacement camps to return home to their 'ancestral' lands, clans in rural areas in Acoliland began to create their own non-profit foundations. In doing so, many clans have had to contemplate, debate, and finally write their foundations' constitutions, mobilizing, translating, and...

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Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields-from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians-to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Stoffle. M. Nieves Zedeno. Jaime K. Eyrich. Patrick Barabe.

This is the first report prepared by the University of Arizona (UofA) ethnographic team for the Native American Interaction Program (NAIP) of Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB). This study, and all future ones facilitated by the UofA, involve working with a committee of Native American advisors appointed by the representatives of the NAIP. This report is a collection of open-ended essays that are expected to provide a foundation for dialog between the NAFB and the participating tribes and...

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Enright.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Ireri Ceja Cardenas.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This Wadsworth International Fellowship is to aid training in Anthropology at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Dilmurod Yusupov.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This Wadsworth International Fellowship is to aid training in Anthropology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Carlos Mario Tobon Franco.

This resource is an application for the Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This Wadsworth International Fellowship is to support training in Sociocultural Anthropology at the University of Texas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nicholas Caverly.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how the destruction of built environments reconfigures economic and environmental inequalities in the postindustrial United States. It does so by investigating the demolition of vacant buildings in Detroit. Estimated to number between 70,000 and 100,000, vacant buildings index decades of racially motivated population decline and deindustrialization. Such structures are...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Steven D. Shelley.

Limited archaeological testing and archival research was conducted on three cultural resources located along Mission Creek in Riverside County, California. All three resources are located on land formerly belonging to the Mission Creek Indian Reservation. Two of the resources, the Kitchen/Thomas settlement complex and a subterranean stone structure, were occupied by former residents of the reservation during the early portion of the twentieth century. The third resource, CA-RIV-269, consists of...