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.
251-275 (451 Records)
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Learning about Learning: A Community-Based Approach to Childhood Pottery Making in Partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project is grounded in a partnership with the Mississaugas of the Credit First nation to apply community-based archaeology in southern Ontario that focusses on learning about learning. There are two main goal of this project. First, we plan to bring together Indigenous methodologies and archaeological study to teach youths how to learn ancestral pottery making. This involves the integration...
Leather Artifact Photographs, Field School at Sites 12G9 and 12G10 1975-1976 (2012)
Photograph of a leather artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed site 12G10 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.
Letter from Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera Regarding Disposition of the Kennewick Human Remains (2000)
This letter describes the Department of Interior's (DOI) final determination and resolution of the issues delegated to DOI by the Department of the Army (DOA) in a March 1998 interagency agreement. In this agreement, DOI agreed to make the following two determinations related to the set of human skeletal remains recovered on July 26, 1996, from Columbia Park, land controlled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), near the city of Kennewick, Benton County, Washington: 1) whether these human...
Letter--Departmental Consulting Archeologist, DOI-NPS, to the US Army Corps of Engineers regarding questions about Kennewick Man [Dec. 23, 1997] (1997)
This letter, written by Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archeologist, to Lt. Colonel Donald Curtis, Jr., United States Army Corps of Engineers-Walla Walla District, provides answers to a set of questions posed regarding aspects of the Kennewick Man case. Col. Curtis asked Dr. McManamon to address these questions because the DCA office was responsible for providing governmentwide expertise on implementation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Letters and Notes On the Manners, Customs, and Conditions of North American Indians (Vol. 1) (1973)
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Letters and Notes On the North American Indians (1975)
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Liberation Heritage and the Politics of Memorialization of the Struggle for Independence in Postcolonial Africa (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This book analyses the politics of memorialization of the struggle for independence in postcolonial southern Africa with special reference to Mozambique. The aim is to scrutinise the different ways in which liberation heritage discourse is used and mobilised to construct a range of socioeconomic and political values in the southern African. The book illustrates how the recent heritagization...
The Life of the Dead: Linguistic Infrastructure and the Signs of War in Post-Colonial Algeria (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. The dead create our social worlds. Their names constitute our sense of place, their images watch over us from monument perches, and their stories build the foundation of our polities and societies. In Algeria, after 50 years of independence, material and linguistic vestiges of the dead of the War of Liberation (1954-1962) continue to exert power over Algerian society, reflecting the enduring...
Liquid Land: A Diasporic Market and the Making of Lahore (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the city of Lahore, Pakistan, plots of land are increasingly traded like stocks. Though land has long functioned as inherited wealth or a long-term investment, in recent years it has become liquid, or a good that can be quickly bought and sold as prices change. Across a diasporic market, plots of land circulate between local residents and overseas Pakistan living in the Middle East,...
Lithic Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.
Lithic Artifact Photographs, Field School at Sites 12G9 and 12G10 1975-1976 (2012)
Photographs of lithic artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed site 12G10 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.
Looking Ahead (1989)
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MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF A FIRE PIT IN DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, COLORADO (1988)
A single fire pit in Dinosaur National Monument was excavated and 8.9 liters of fill floated for macrofloral analysis. This hearth yielded a radiocarbon age of 3500 ± 70 BP. Macrofloral analysis was conducted to determine whether the hearth contained any information concerning vegetal food processing.
Makmok, Notes on the Occurence, Utilisation, and Importance of Polynesian Arrowroot (Tacca Leontopetaloides) in the Marshall Islands (1992)
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Man and Settlement in the Upper Santa Ana River Drainage: A Cultural Resources Overview (1984)
Between July and October of 1984, Statistical Research, Inc., conducted a cultural resources overview and limited field checks of six proposed reservoirs and associated borrow sites in the Upper Santa Ana River Drainage. The proposed areas of impact are dispersed throughout the San Bernardino Valley, covering portions of both San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, California. Although each area is relatively small, in combination they touch on most areas of the San Bernardino Valley. Thus,...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Man, Models and Management: An Overview of the Archaeology of the Arizona Strip and the Management of Its Cultural Resources (1989)
The region encompassing the land north and west of the Colorado River in the State of Arizona is the subject of this Class I cultural resources overview. This region, commonly referred to as the Arizona Strip, contains approximately 3.5 million acres, of which 2.75 million acres are administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), 650,000 acres are under the jurisdiction of the USDA Forest Service, and the balance is controlled by various State and Federal agencies, Indian tribes, and...
Mana and Tapu (1989)
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Manual of Child Psychology (1954)
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Map of Curry County showing location and holdings of early indian tribes
A overview Map of Early Indian Trbal areas of inhabitation
Marble Provenance Investigation of the Roman Sabine Sarcophagus (2014)
Open Journal of Archaeometry A Florida Archaeological Survey Archaeometry Project in association with laboratory studies at The Institute of Structure of Matter of the Italian National Research Council, Rome, Italy and the University of Georgia, Department of Geology, Athens, Georgia, United States The provenance of marbles used for making sarcophagi during the Roman period is an important question and scientific analysis can provide a strong confirmation and basis for future studies...
Marshaling the Past: Indigenous Regimes of Ownership in Amazonian Ecologies (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2020)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project investigates how people marshal the past to secure a sustainable future. I ask how Amerindian people in Amazonia attribute historical and ecological values and meanings to anthropogenic landscapes, while simultaneously building an understanding of themselves within a complex set of changing relations between humans, nonhuman agents, and the environment. I propose an ethnography...
The Marshall Islanders; Life and Customs, Thought and Religion of a South Seas People (1914)
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Marshallese Clans in the Late 20th Century: Knowledge and Significance of the Jowi
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