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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World War II Remains on Central Pacific Islands: Perceptions of Cultural Heritage versus Priorities of Preservation (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dirk H. R. Spennemann.

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Yamisevul: An Archaeological Treatment Plan and Testing Report for CA-RIV-269, Riverside County, California (1987)
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...


Yellen's !Kung (Bushman) Camp Aggregate Ethnoarchaeological Data (1977)
DATASET John Yellen.

Summary data from John Yellen's ethoarchaeological observations of 16 !Kung (Bushman) Camps extracted from Appendices B & C of Yellen, John E. 1977 Archaeological Approaches to the Present. Academic Press, New York.