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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Marshland of Cities: Deltaic Landscapes and the Evolution of Early Mesopotamian Civilization (2003)
Prevailing theories of the evolution of early complex societies in southern Mesopotamia presume a uniform, arid landscape transited by Tigris and Euphrates distributaries. These theories hold that it was the seventh millennium BCE introduction of irrigation technologies from the northern alluvium to the south that began the punctuated evolution of Mesopotamian irrigation schemes. In this view, irrigation-dependent agro-pastoral production was the primary stimulus to urbanization and, millennia...
Martu Ethnoarchaeology: Foraging, Site Structure and the Scales of Constraint on Human Behavior (2015)
In his watershed 1995 publication, O’Connell outlined the utility of approaching ethnoarchaeology through a general theory of behavior by noting the disparity between studies examining faunal remains and those attempting to explain site structure. While the former was finding great success by drawing on models from behavioral ecology, the later was stagnant and lacking a general theory of behavior. Drawing on ethnoarchaeological data collected with Martu Aboriginal foragers, we highlight a...
Material Culture of Samoa: Condensed and Simplified from Dr. P. H. Buck's Samoan Material Culture with Additional Notes
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Material Culture of Western Samoa: Persistence and Change (1985)
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Maya Daykeeping: Three Calendars from Highland Guatemala (2009)
In Maya Daykeeping, three divinatory calendars from highland Guatemala - examples of a Mayan literary tradition that includes the Popul Vuh, Annals of the Cakchiquels, and the Titles of the Lords of Totonicapan - dating to 1685, 1722, and 1855, are transcribed in K'iche or Kaqchikel side-by-side with English translations. Calendars such as these continue to be the basis for prognostication, determining everything from the time for planting and harvest to foreshadowing illness and death. Good,...
The Medicine Bows (1985)
An Intensive Cultural Resource Survey of Wyoming's Mountain Country The significance of the Medicine Bow region is tied to its abundant natural resources in close proximity to major 19th century migration routes. The high mountain lakes and streams, rugged rocky peaks and endless vistas of forest remain popular with outdoorsmen who travel from afar to enjoy the unsullied natural world that still remains there.
Metal Artifact Photographs, Brookville Reservoir Survey 1991-1992 (2012)
Photograph of a metal artifact collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed Brookville Reservoir area in Franklin and Union Counties, Indiana.
Metal Artifact Photographs, Field School at Sites 12G9 and 12G10 1975-1976 (2012)
Photographs of metal artifacts collected during the archaeological reconnaissance of the proposed sites 12G9 and 12G10 along the Mississinewa Reservoir in Grant and Wabash Counties, Indiana.
Methodology: U.S. Army Alaska 2006 Range Developments Section 106 Archaeological Inventory and Evaluation Fort Richardson and Fort Wainwright (2006)
U.S. Army Alaska planned to survey several past inventoried archaeological sites during the 2006 summer field season. The focus of this work would involve: 1) the survey of firing fans associated with training ranges on Fort Wainwright's Yukon and Donelly Training Areas, 2). Evaluations to determine eligibility for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places of archaeological sites that may be impacted by future development on the Donnelly Training Area, and 3). Numerous smaller...
Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984
In 1983, Ball State University submitted a draft proposal to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for a Department of the Interior Survey and Planning Grant. The proposal requested funds to formulate an ethnohistoric study unit for the Miami Indian occupation of the Upper Wabash drainage in central Indiana. The proposed project was to be carried out by William R. Wepler in four stages: study unit construction, background research,...
Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage: A Preliminary Study Unit, Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage (1984)
This report is focused on the occupation and utilization of the Upper Wabash drainage by the Miami during the period beginning with the contact of the Europeans (ca. 1650) and ending with the participation of the last tribally owned lands within the state of Indiana in 1873; the primary focus of the project is on the era between 1795 and 1881. This project is a direct outgrowth of several ethnohistorical and archaeological studies conducted within the Upper Wabash drainage in recent years....
Micronesia Navigation, Island Empires and Traditional Concepts of Ownership of the Sea (1974)
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Migrations in the North: Hopi Reconnaissance for the Rocky Mountain Expansion Loop Pipeline (1999)
This report presents the cultural values, concerns, and recommendations of the Hopi Tribe regarding cultural resources that may be impacted by the proposed construction of the Rocky Mountain Expansion Loop Pipeline to transport natural gas liquids. The proposed pipeline runs from northwestern New Mexico to northeastern Utah. Hopi advisors conducted field reconnaissance, evaluated 18 archaeological sites, examined collections, and conducted ethnographic interviews to address concerns about the...
Militarization and Extraction in the Afro-Indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2015)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. My research examines new configurations of sovereign power in Central America in the context of two momentous transformations currently taking place on the Afro-indigenous Miskitu Coast of Nicaragua. The first of these is the escalating militarization of the coast by the neo-Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega, allegedly in response to high volumes of cocaine trafficking. The second is the...
Milwaukee Public Museum Publications in Anthropology (1954)
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Mimbres Inequality
Appendices to Will G. Russell's dissertation
Mimbres Periphery Study
The Mimbres Periphery Study focuses on Mimbres Mogollon adaptations and settlement in areas outside of the main Mimbres River Valley in Southwestern New Mexico. It was initiated by Robert J. Stokes in 1995 as a Ph.D. graduate student at the University of Oklahoma, and includes survey and excavation projects.
Mississippian Presence In Minnesota (1991)
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Moving Words: Malagasy Slam Poetry at the Intersection of Performance, Politics, and Transnational Circulation (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2014)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Initial findings suggest that recent developments in who can speak and what can be said in kabary (Malagasy oratory) show that the form does not, as has been suggested, solely serve to rigidify social hierarchies; it is also a means of reflecting and improving current realities. Nonetheless, a critical component of kabary remains substantiating one's claims by referring to the razana...
Multidisciplinary Research at the La Botica Site, Conejos County, Colorado (2022)
The La Botica site (5CN1061), located in Conejos County’s spectacular La Jara Canyon, is a large and complex archaeological site that preserves a remarkable record of American Indian lifeways spanning at least 7,500 years. The site is also an important locality for the San Luis Valley’s Hispano residents, who gathered medicinal plants there in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The demonstrated time depth of the site’s occupation, combined with its unique and culturally significant...
MX/Native American Cultural and Socio-Economic Studies-Draft (1980)
The primary objective of this data procurement is to identify and locate Native American cultural resources in the study area; to identify the ethnic values with which they are associated; and to develop socioeconomic profiles describing the specific Native American settlements in Utah and Nevada which are located within the potential deployment areas.
Nahnsehleng Maritime Center Exhibit Development Plan, DRAFT (1996)
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Nan Madol: Archaeology of a Pohnpeian Cheifdom Center (Incomplete) (1985)
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Native American Ethnographic Resources at Wildhorse Spring, Nevada (2020)
Questionnaires used in the Native American Ethnographic Resources Study at Wildhorse Springs, Nevada.