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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The Katmai Project was organized by the Washington, D.C., office of the National Parks Service. Initial planning and the program of procedure was worked out by the National Park Service during the fall and winter of 1952-53. The purpose of the project was scientific analysis of the resources of the Katmai National Monument, which is situated on the Alaska peninsula. The division of Archaeology and History of the Katmai Project was placed under the direction of Dr. William S. Laughlin of the...
Archaeological Overview and Assessment of the Cape Cod National Seashore, Massachusetts (1997)
Previous archeological and relevant documentary research at the Cape Cod National Seashore is reviewed and evaluated. The Cape Cod National Seashore is located on what is known as the outer Cape, an area whose history goes back thousands of years, when the area's marine, estuarine, and terrestrial resources, all located in proximity to one another, drew Native Americans here. The area was an important center of Native American life into the seventeenth century, when it was the homeland of...
An Archaeological Overview of Portions of the North Coast Ranges and Northwestern California (1978)
An archaeological overview of northwestern California based on study areas in Trinity, Humboldt, Sonoma, and Lake Counties. This report addresses the ethnographic and archaeological backgrounds of the selected regions along with associated research questions.
Archaeological Study for Humboldt Harbor and Bay Navigation Improvement Project, Humboldt County, California (BLM) (1974)
Pursuant to a navigational improvement project authorized by Congress in 1968 , involving dredging of Humboldt Bay to facilitate widening and deepening, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has selected five alternative spoils locations for the disposal of dredge spoils. This report discusses eight archaeological sites reported by Loud in 1918.
Archaeological Survey in Southwest Ponape: An Investigation of Prehistoric Economics and Settlement (1980)
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.
Archaeological Survey Report for Naval Facility, Centerville Beach and Dependent Housing Area Humboldt County, California (BLM) (1994)
Archaeological field survey report for naval facility in Humboldt County, California. Several ceramic fragments were observed but were not formally recorded.
Archaeological Test Excavations for the Water Plant No. 1 Expansion, Historic Block 138, City of Tucson (1993)
Residents of modern cities are often surprised to learn that historical artifacts and architectural remains survive below ground. The excavations on lots 5 through 12 of historic Block 138 demonstrate that past Tucsonans discarded large quantities of garbage in the areas next to their homes. Hundreds of items were discovered during archaeological testing of the block. The City of Tucson plans to expand its Water Plant over the block, and it was necessary to determine whether significant cultural...
Archaeology Field Survey Reports Contributed by BLM, Arcata, CA Field Office
This project includes Archaeology Field Survey Reports contributed by the Bureau of Land Management's, Arcata, California field office.This initial contribution will establish a regional digital archive project whose goal is to accumulate heritage documents, greatly enhancing our ability to preserve historic resources within the North Coast Region.
The Archaeology of Highland Chiriqui, Panama -- Documents, Images, and Datasets
Archaeology is defined by its grounding in material objects; without contextual elements of space and place, however, material culture is devoid of much of its meaning and archaeological information. This article focuses upon pre-Columbian objects – including gold, ceramics, and stone artefacts - from a small, localized area of the Chiriquí region of western Panamá in the context of the volcanic landscape. The discussion is intended as a provocative introduction to the archaeology of highland...
The Archaeology of Highland Chiriqui, Panama Figures (2010)
These are the figures for The Archaeology of Highland Chiriqui, Panama Project. The document reference for the article "Placing immateriality: situating the material of highland Chiriquí" by Karen Holberg.
The Archaeology of Kennewick Man
This project includes background information, detailed reports of investigations, summaries, and other documents related to the Kennewick Man. Kennewick Man, also called "the Ancient One" by some, is an ancient individual represented by his nearly complete skeletal remains. The remains were discovered in 1996 under the waters of Lake Wallula, a reservoir in the Columbia River, near Kennewick, Washington. Controversy concerning the study and treatment of the remains was not resolved until a...
The Archaeology of Souls: A Foundation through Systematic Survey of Historic Woodland and Plains Native American Soul Concepts (2016)
The potential for accurately reconstructing prehistoric Woodland and Plains Indian societies’ notions of human soul-like essences using symbolically rich mortuary remains and art can be improved when analogous, comparative ethnohistorical information is collected systematically and with sensitivity to tribal and regional variations. Literature on 49 historic Woodland-Plains tribes produced 643 cases informing on nine selected subjects: number and locations of souls in an individual, number of...
The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes (2015)
In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the...
Archeological Investigations at Arkansas City, Kansas (2012)
In 1994, the Archeology Office of the Kansas Historical Society (KSHS) initiated excavations to mitigate the impact to eight recorded archaeological sites—Larcom-Haggard, 14CO1; Arkansas City Country Club, 14CO3; Schrope, 14CO331; Havelock, 14CO332; Living the Dream, 14CO382; Radio Lane, 14CO385; Killdeer, 14CO501; and Thompson Gardens, 14CO1509—in the path of the proposed Arkansas City Bypass and Levee Project. The project area is situated on the floor and adjacent uplands of the Walnut River...
Archeology of the Little Beaver Watershed (2009)
This is an overview of previous research done regarding the environment, culture, and archeological research in the Northern Cascades. It appears to be chapter 2 of the Archeology of the Little Beaver Watershed.
The Arizona Historical Pageant (1992)
This document is an article regarding the history and progression of the historical pageants held between 1926-1930 at Compound B at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
The Arkansas City Project, South Central Kansas, USA
Documentation of excavations of a related group of Late Prehistoric, pre-contact, ancestral Wichita Great Bend aspect archaeological sites. Excavations were conducted 1994-1996 by the Kansas State Historical Society (now Kansas Historical Society) in advance of highway and levee construction to mitigate the impacts of the projects as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.
Art and Aesthetics (1989)
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.
Artifact Attributes: All Analyzed (Non-Mortuary) Specimens (2017)
Appendix A of Hedquist's dissertation, A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400.
Artifacts and Archaeology from the Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s Potano Encampment and the Lost Franciscan Mission (2016)
The historical site identified by the Florida Department of State, Bureau of Archaeological Research as Smithsonian Trinomial 8AAMR03538 was the location of one of Hernando de Soto’s early camps during the 1539 entrada and was in later use during the sixteen and seventeenth century Spanish mission and ranching periods. This previously unknown First Spanish Cultural Period site named the White Ranch / De Soto site is located between Ocala and Gainesville, Florida on the wetlands associated with...
Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, 3rd edition 2021 (2021)
This book introduces previously unrecognized ancient written evidence that in pre-Columbian times multiple intellectual exchanges took place between Asiatic and North American populations. Using the novel integration of the legal concept of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of Jaccard's Index of Similarity the Chinese origin of 107+ North American petroglyphs and pictographs is established. Here is the long sought sinographic proof that Asiatic explorers not only...
Aspects of Land Tenure in an Ancient Southwestern Farming Society in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico (2003)
This dissertation research focuses on the development of new communities in areas outside of the main Mimbres River Valley during the Classic period, ca. 1000-1150. Based on a review of ethnohistoric farming societies living in marginal areas, a model was developed for understanding when and under what conditions landless groups of people form in established communities and the decisions they then make for survival, including moving into empty, but marginal, agricultural zones and establishing...
Associated Materials, Non-Mortuary Deposits: Bailey Ruin, Grasshopper Pueblo, Homol'ovi I, and Rattlesnake Point (2017)
Appendix B of Hedquist's dissertation, A Colorful Past: Turquoise and Social Identity in the Late Prehispanic Western Pueblo Region, A.D. 1275–1400.
Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000 (2007)
This historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area. The study explores the shifting but ongoing...
An Atlas of Rare Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs (2009)
A field manual of disease signs for archaeologists working with human remains and medical anthropologists and clinicians working with indigenous cultures. Compiled over twenty years of forensic investigation at some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites in Asia - including Russia, China, India and Turkey, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Twelve additional countries in Europe, North and Central America, and South America including the Amazon...