Ethnographic Research (Investigation Type)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Gillispie.

This report provides an overview which adopts a basic approach that describes the broadest outlines of Alaska’s prehistoric culture history as seen against the backdrop of these environmental changes and geographic divides. Results of the many more advanced analyses of prehistoric behavior are omitted for the sake of simplicity, as are the details of the many scholarly debates important in the archaeological literature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Nancy Yaw Davis. James A. Fall. The Dena'ina Team.

The area presently occupied by the Elmendorf Air Force Base (Elmendorf AFB) in southcentral Alaska lies within the traditional territory of the Upper Cook Inlet Dena'ina (Tanaina) Athabascan Indians. In 1994, members of the Dena'ina Athabascan community of Eklutna formed the "Dena'ina Team," and, working with cultural anthropologist Nancy Yaw Davis and Elmendorf AFB personnel, began to investigate potential Dena'ina prehistoric and historic sites on the base (Davis and the Dena'ina Team 1994,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Gary Stickel. Lois J. Weinman-Roberts.

The results of a literature search are presented in this study. The literature search pertained to all unpublished and published written works relative to cultural resources located within the study area. These cultural resources consist of prehistoric and ethnohistoric archaeological sites as well as historic sites. Altogether the project area encompasses a vast amount of land in the western Mojave Desert of approximately 2.35 million acres. The majority of the project area is located within...

DOCUMENT Full-Text 611th Civil Engineer Squadron.

A brief historical summary of Shemya Island at Eareckson Air Station.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Giulio Ongaro.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do indigenous practitioners successfully heal? What can we learn from animistic medical traditions? My research has examined these questions through long-term ethnographic fieldwork on the healing practices of the Akha, a group of non-literate swidden farmers living in highland Laos. I documented for the first time in detail the system of Akha healing sacrifices and their shamanic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Daniel King. Michael Searcy. Kyle Waller.

Microfossil analysis is a technique used to better understand prehistoric diets. As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. With this information, we are able to better understand the flora present during ancient times and how it was used (food, processing, etc.).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah M. Pearsall.

"Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley" explores the interrelationships between the prehistoric residents of a small valley in coastal Ecuador (South America) and the dry tropical forest habitat in which they lived. The book has three related objectives. First, "Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador" is an ethnobotany, a work that explores how, through the medium of cul­ture, people shape and are shaped by the world in which they live. I take as my...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Peter "Flint" Hobart.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Noreen Tuross. Connie J. Kolman.

At the request of the Department of Justice and Dr. Francis P. McManamon, Departmental Consulting Archaeologist of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, the authors discuss the potential for DNA analysis of the human skeletal remains from Kennewick, Washington that are the objects of the lawsuit now pending (Bonnichsen et al., vs. United States of America, Civil No. 9601481-JE). The purpose of such an analysis would be to determine the genetic affinity of the above individual by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Harold S. Colton.

The purpose of this little book is to outline in a concise form the methods used to make bits of broken pottery contribute to the history of the Southwest. In the interpretation of archaeological finds, pottery plays a most important role because of its wide distribution in time and space, its resistance to atmospheric weathering, and the number of culture traits that can be observed in pottery fragments. The manufacture of pottery is an old human activity. In the Old World pottery has been made...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nancy J. Pollock.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry Moore.

A Prehistory of South America is an overview of the ancient and historic native cultures of the entire continent of South America based on the most recent archaeological investigations. This accessible, clearly written text is designed to engage undergraduate and beginning graduate students in anthropology. For more than 12,000 years, South American cultures ranged from mobile hunters and gatherers to rulers and residents of colossal cities. In the process, native South American societies...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Valerie Anne Levulett.

A doctoral dissertation investigating coastal shell middens within the King Range National Conservation Area of southwestern Humboldt County, California. This archaeological investigation was designed to identify native settlement-subsistence practices, season of site use, and temporal placement. Sources of data include discussion of environmental, ethnographic, linguistic and archaeological context. Ana lyses of archaeo1ogical site structure, artifacts, marine and terrestrial mammalian fauna,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text B. K. Swartz, Jr..

Though concerned agencies and archaeologists throughout the state were previously informed Ball State officials did not learn until the spring of 1975 that an appropriation of $25,000.00, proposed by State Representative Loren E. Winger, Converse, Indiana, for Ball State University to conduct research under the jurisdiction of the Indiana State Department of Natural Resources along the Mississinewa River in Grant and Wabash counties was being considered by the state legislature. The purpose of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Ben Nelson.

Fieldwork from the 1987 and 1988 seasons at La Quemada

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ward H. Goodenough.

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Archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, geology, and community development at the largest Precolumbian saltworks in the Maya world. Salinas de los Nueve Cerros was a Maya city located at the highland-lowland transition along the Chixoy River that produced up to 24,000 tons of salt/year during the Late Classic period (AD 600-850). It was occupied from at least 800 BC through the Classic collapse, and continued to be occupied throughout the Postclassic and colonial periods, with salt production...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle.

This is a report of findings about American Indian cultural concerns for places and landscapes in the Spring Mountain range in what is today called southern Nevada. More specifically it is a study of how people who speak a Numic language and who call themselves Nuwuvi or Nungwu, and are known in English as Southern Paiutes, interact with the Spring Mountain range. Included is a PDF presentation on the ethnography.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard W. Stoffle. Kathleen A. Van Vlack. Fletcher P. Chmara-Huff.

This is an Executive Summary of the field activities conducted by the University of Arizona (UofA) for the Southern Paiute Ethnographic Assessment of the Quitchupah Creek Road Proposal, Fishlake National Forest (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Richfield District, Sevier and Emery Counties, Utah. This executive summary contains (1) a brie overview of the proposed project and ethnographic study, (2) a detailed schedule of activities, (3) a talley of interviews, and (4) a sketch of the...

PROJECT Will Russell. Katherine Spielmann. David Abbott. Arizona State University (ASU).

Between A.D. 1250 and 1450, a large number of ceremonial racetracks were built at and between villages in north-central Arizona. This assemblage began as a relatively dispersed collection, stretching from the Sedona area down to Cave Creek and from the Bradshaw Mountains to the Mazatzal Wilderness. Over time, the racetrack network grew in intensity but became spatially focused atop Perry Mesa, along the middle Agua Fria River. In conjunction with the Legacies on the Landscape Project and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Bennie C. Keel.

The archeological research conducted on the Ravensford Tract over the last 6 years has been the largest single research project ever conducted in Cherokee archeology in North Carolina. More than 30 acres of land has been stripped and over a hundred structures have been investigated. Although we predicted the tract to be rich in archeological data, it has exceeded our most liberal expectations. This article provides interesting data on several aspects of the occupational sequence at Ravensford...

DATASET Colleen Strawhacker.

These are the raw data for soils collected on the Pampa de Chaparri on the north coast of Peru for Strawhacker's dissertation research.

DATASET Colleen Strawhacker.

These are the raw data from the soils collected from the middle Gila River (on the land now management by the Gila River Indian Community) for Strawhacker's dissertation research.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: adam brin

The papers in this volume—an outgrowth of the symposium presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology—reflect the growing interest in the prehistory and protohistory of this area, which is perhaps the most poorly understood region in the greater American Southwest. They further reflect an increasing concern on the part of archaeologists, Native Americans, and federal land managers regarding modern human activity that has adversely impacted many of the cultural...

DOCUMENT Citation Only U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District.

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