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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Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies teams of researchers with different skill sets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact...


A Report on the Discovery and Recovery of Human Remains from Columbia Park Site, Kennewick, WA, July-September 1996 (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Paul R. Nickens.

This report sets forth a more detailed accounting of the events involved in the discovery and intermittent recovery of the human skeletal elements that are today variously referred to as "Kennewick Man," or the "Ancient One." A preliminary but generalized summary of these events was prepared as part of a historic context report completed by the author in February 1998. The following report provides more specific delineation of the events surrounding the initial discovery and recovery of human...


Reports on the Cultural Affiliation of the Kennewick Man (2000)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon. Jason Roberts. Brooke Blades. Kenneth Ames. Daniel L. Boxberger. Eugene S. Hunn. Steven Hackenberger.

This report details four studies by experts in anthropological, archeological, cultural, and historical topics relevant to the determination of whether the Kennewick man remains could be culturally affiliated under the terms of NAGPRA.


Representing space in Oceania: Culture in language and mind (2002)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Giovanni Bennardo.

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.


Research Design Archaeological Characterization Sampling For the EC South Range, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nellis Air Force Base (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcus Grant.

The purpose of this project is to conduct a characterization sampling study for the EC South which includes a portion of Quartz Mountain. They are mountainous areas that research has demonstrated has high potential for identifying significant sites. This project is a 4% sample of 200,000 acres to identify eligible sites for preservation, management with the mission, and Native American visitation.


Research on Primitive Children (1954)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Margaret Mead.

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.


Research Proposal Submitted to National Science Foudation (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas D. Anderson. Takeshi Ueki.

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.


Research Proposal; Processes of Social Change From Simple to Complex: a Kosraean Case Study (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Takeshi Ueki.

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.


The Research Report of Dolen Loang (1996)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hiroyuki Saito.

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.


Restructuring Life: Citizenship, Territory and Religiosity in Nepal's State of Transition (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Shneiderman.

This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do we imagine the ideal state that we aspire to live in? I address this question in anthropological terms through a multi-sited ethnography of state restructuring in Nepal since 2006. In the wake of a decade-long civil conflict between Maoist and state forces in this erstwhile unitary Himalayan kingdom turned secular democratic federal republic of nearly 30 million, I transpose Victor Turner's...


Results of Archaeological Investigations in Three Lakes Valley South, Nellis Air Force Range, Nevada (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dames & Moore.

This Summary Report presents the research context, methods, and results for an archaeological survey of approximately 2,000 acres of playa margin habitat in the Three Lakes Valley South on the Nellis Air Force Range (NAFR), Clark County, Nevada.


Results of Phase III Site Documentation and Other Field Studies for Kirtland Air Force Base, Bernalillo County, New Mexico (1998)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Dorothy L. Larson. Lori E. Rhodes. John C. Acklen. Richard D. Holmes. R. Blake Roxlau. Toni R. Goar. Eric G. Meyer. K. Lynn Berry.

This report summarizes the results of Phase Ill site documentation and other field studies concluded at Kirtland Air Force Base (KAFB). During site revisits, a number of new sites were recorded. In addition, other surveys were conducted. These included a survey of Installation Restoration Program (IRP) sites, an intensive reconnaissance of arroyo cutbanks, a survey of the High Energy Research and Technology Facility (HERTF) antennae range at KAFB, and the ADAL water base survey. The results of...


A Review of Historical and Ethnographic Literature Pertaining to Wickiups: Conical Timber Lodges within Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, Shoshone National Forest, and Yellowstone National Park (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David R. M. White.

A variety of wooden shelters exist in the northern Plains; among these are conical timber structures popularly referred to as "wickiups". A study focusing on lands administered by Bridger-Teton National Forest (BRTE), Grand Teton National Park ( GRTE), Shoshone National Forest (SHOS), and Yellowstone National Park (YELL), shows the term "wickiup" to be imprecisely used in reference to a variety of structures, so the study uses the architecturally descriptive term "conical timber lodge" (CTL)...


Review of the Cultures (1960)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Boyd N. Wettlaufer.

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Revised Archeological Treatment Plan for Sites Affected by the Arkansas City Bypass and Levee Project. (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marlin Hawley.

Treatment plan for mitigation of site impacted by highway construction.


Reworking Regimes of Value: Fishery Restructuring and Globalization in Bristol Bay, Alaska (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2003)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Hebert.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. In the fishing town of Dillingham, Alaska, poet Gary Snyder once found the raucous epitome of “the working bars of the world” (1983:91). These days, however, Dillingham’s mood is decidedly dimmer as its workers develop and debate plans to restructure the Bristol Bay salmon industry, which has swung from unprecedented profitability to near insolvency in little over a decade. Although the...


Rincon Phase Seasonal Occupation in the Northern Tucson Basin (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mary Bernard-Shaw. Frederick W. Huntington.

In 1985 the Center for Desert Archaeology, Inc. conducted archaeological investigations at the Cienega site, AZ BB:9:143 (ASM), and site AZ BB:9:44 (ASM), in the foothills of the Santa Catalina Mountains. These investigations were sponsored by Cienega Properties, Inc., and archaeological testing, mapping, and excavations were conducted prior to the residential development of the area. This report documents the results of this study and focuses primarily on the Hohokam remains of the Cienega...


River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 30: Stutsman Focus: An Aboriginal Culture Complex In the Jamestown Reservoir Area, North Dakota (1963)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard P. Wheeler.

In this paper I propose to detail the returns from two partially excavated and eight unexcavated aboriginal occupation sites in the James River Valley, North Dakota; to combine the findings into a new culture complex, which I am calling the Stutsman Focus; and to suggest the cultural affinities and temporal placement of the Stutsman Focus, following the broad historical approach. The investigations which produced the field data reported herein were part of the archeological salvage work...


The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study, Volume 1: Research Design (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard Ciolek-Torello. Steven D. Shelley. Jeffrey Altschul. John R. Welch.

The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc. to conduct this study. The RRS was...


SAA podium slides (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay van der Reijden.

pdf copy of podium presentation slides


Salvageable Lives: Pathogens, People, and Politics in Lebanon's Anticipated Collapse (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Anthony Rizk.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research examines salvage: its different meanings, the theoretical directions it leads to, and how it contributes to understanding social life in Lebanon -a country that, for some time now, has been described as being on the brink of collapse. Among scientists repurposing microbial samples in laboratories, physicians using salvage therapies in clinics, and political activists constantly...


The Samoan Construction of Reality (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Urlike Mosel.

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The Samoan Identity (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John Kneubuhl.

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The Samoan Islands (1970)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Irving Goldman.

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The Samoan Islands: An Outline of a Monograph with Particular Consideration of German Samoa (1994)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Augustin Kramer.

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