Ethnohistoric Research (Investigation Type)

This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories. Ethnohistoric studies typically deal with time periods of initial or early contact between different cultural systems, for example, European explorers or early colonists and indigenous cultures.

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Archaeology of the Ak Chin Indian Community West Side Farms Project: The Land and the People (1990)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert E. Gasser. Christine K. Robinson. Cory Dale Breternitz. Soil Systems, Inc..

This volume presents an overview of the project area through environmental, geomorpological, and historical studies. The chapters contained herein represent only one aspect of the Ak-Chin Archaeological Project, which involved data recovery at 31 prehistoric, protohistoric, and historic sites. Four other volumes in the series provide the research design, reports on the sites studied, interpretations of the material culture and human remains from the sites, subsistence information derived from...


The Archaeology of Wak'as: Explorations of the Sacred in the Pre-Columbian Andes (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

In this edited volume, Andean wak'as—idols, statues, sacred places, images, and oratories—play a central role in understanding Andean social philosophies, cosmologies, materialities, temporalities, and constructions of personhood. Top Andean scholars from a variety of disciplines cross regional, theoretical, and material boundaries in their chapters, offering innovative methods and theoretical frameworks for interpreting the cultural particulars of Andean ontologies and notions of the...


Archeological and Historical Investigations at Martin Lake, Rusk and Panola Counties, Texas (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John W. Clark, Jr.. James E. Ivey.

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.


Archeological Data Recovery at Algiers Point (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Christopher Goodwin. Others.

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.


Archeological Excavations at the Dow-Cleaver Site, Brazoria County, Texas (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lawrence E. Aten.

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.


Archeological Investigations at Arkansas City, Kansas (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Robert J. Hoard

In 1994, the Archeology Office of the Kansas Historical Society (KSHS) initiated excavations to mitigate the impact to eight recorded archaeological sites—Larcom-Haggard, 14CO1; Arkansas City Country Club, 14CO3; Schrope, 14CO331; Havelock, 14CO332; Living the Dream, 14CO382; Radio Lane, 14CO385; Killdeer, 14CO501; and Thompson Gardens, 14CO1509—in the path of the proposed Arkansas City Bypass and Levee Project. The project area is situated on the floor and adjacent uplands of the Walnut River...


Archeological Investigtions in the Village of Oyster Creek, Brazoria County, Texas: a Reassessment of Economic Archeology On the Texas Coast (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Phil Dering. David Ayers.

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.


Archeological Survey of the Maccasin Sewage Treatment Facilities; CSCS / IAR 76-16. (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only L. K. Napton.

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The Archeology and Bioarcheology of the Gulf Coastal Plain: Volume 1 (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dee A. Story. Janice A. Guy. Barbara A. Burnett. Martha D. Freeman. Jerome C. Rose. D. Gentry Steele. Ben W. Olive. Karl J. Reinhard.

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.


Archeology and Bioarcheology of the Lower Mississippi Valley and Trans-Mississippi South in Arkansas and Louisiana (1989)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Marvin D. Jeter. Jerome C. Rose. G. Ishmael Williams, Jr.. Anna M. Harmon.

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.


Archeology and Ethnology On the Edges of the Atchafalaya Basin, South-Central Louisiana: a Cultural Resources Survey of the Atchafalaya Basin Protection Levees (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon L. Gibson.

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.


Archeology at Aquilla Lake 1978-1982 Investigations Vols. I-III (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David O. Brown.

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Archival Documents relating to Shaw Air Force Base Land Purchase (1935)
DOCUMENT Full-Text U.S. Resettlement Administration. U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Land offers, appraisals, inventories, and ownership information for landowners sold to the United States for the establishment of Shaw Air Force Base, Sumter County, South Carolina


Arctic (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David Damas.

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.


Are Wars Inevitable? (1943)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

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 Arizona Historical Pageant (1992)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: alycia hayes

This document is an article regarding the history and progression of the historical pageants held between 1926-1930 at Compound B at the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.


Arkansas Before the Americans (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Hester A. Davis.

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The Arkansas City Project, South Central Kansas, USA
PROJECT Uploaded by: Robert J. Hoard

Documentation of excavations of a related group of Late Prehistoric, pre-contact, ancestral Wichita Great Bend aspect archaeological sites. Excavations were conducted 1994-1996 by the Kansas State Historical Society (now Kansas Historical Society) in advance of highway and levee construction to mitigate the impacts of the projects as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966.


Artifact Database (2011)
DATASET Ian Kerr. Erin Claussen. Michael Nassaney.

This is a comprehensive database containing information on all artifacts recovered from 1998 from Fort St. Joseph


Artifact Database Guide (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ian Kerr. Erin Claussen. Michael Nassaney.

This document seeks to outline the goals of the artifact database, how it is organized and arranged and to explain the various data fields utilized.


Artifact Lexicon (2011)
DATASET Ian Kerr. Erin Claussen. Michael Nassaney.

This is an artifact lexicon which outlines all the various artifact types and categories of material that archaeologists have found at Fort St. Joseph.


Artifact Photograph Log (2010)
DATASET Western Michigan University - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project.

Provides provenience information for photographs of artifacts.


Artifacts and Archaeology from the Conquistador Hernando De Soto’s Potano Encampment and the Lost Franciscan Mission (2016)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

The historical site identified by the Florida Department of State, Bureau of Archaeological Research as Smithsonian Trinomial 8AAMR03538 was the location of one of Hernando de Soto’s early camps during the 1539 entrada and was in later use during the sixteen and seventeenth century Spanish mission and ranching periods. This previously unknown First Spanish Cultural Period site named the White Ranch / De Soto site is located between Ocala and Gainesville, Florida on the wetlands associated with...


Artifacts from the 1539 Hernando De Soto Potano Encampment (2010)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

Digital images of artifacts from the Hernando de Soto encampment with the Potano culture. Artifacts included are late fifteenth century Spanish coins, early sixteenth century seven layer faceted chevron beads, Nueva Cadiz tubular beads, iron crossbow bolts, harquebus lead shot, mail armor, European animal remains, and Alachua Culture lithics and potsherds. This is an active research project with sensitive data withheld to protect the archaeological resource. Some metadata is confidential...


Artifacts from the 1580 Apula Visita and the 1607 San Buenaventura de Potano Mission (2010)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

Digital images of artifacts from the Spanish Franciscan Missions of Apula and San Buenaventura de Potano. Artifacts included are mission period Spanish coins, European majolica, simple blue and translucent trade beads, Rosary bead sections, and Alachua Culture lithics and potsherds. This is an active research project with sensitive data withheld to protect the archaeological resource. Some metadata is confidential and will remain embargoed for a period of 5 years. The Florida Department of...