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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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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Asiatic Echoes - The Identification of Ancient Chinese Pictograms in pre-Columbian North American Rock Writing, 3rd edition 2021 (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text John Ruskamp.

This book introduces previously unrecognized ancient written evidence that in pre-Columbian times multiple intellectual exchanges took place between Asiatic and North American populations. Using the novel integration of the legal concept of substantial similarity with the comparative statistical tool of Jaccard's Index of Similarity the Chinese origin of 107+ North American petroglyphs and pictographs is established. Here is the long sought sinographic proof that Asiatic explorers not only...


Assessing the Relationship between Vegetation Zones and Archaeology on the Nevada Test and Training Range (2008)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marcus P. Grant. Sherri Wenzlau.

Geo-Marine, Inc., Las Vegas, Nevada, conducted intensive cultural resources inventories on 10,624 acres and an experimental inventory on an additional 2,220 acres near Black Mountain (for a grand total of 12,844 acres) within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). As a result of this effort, 143 archaeological sites were recorded; an additional 41 site locations were noted but not fully recorded during experimental inventories in the Black Mountain area.


Atlas For Anthropology (1968)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert F. Spencer. Elden Johnson.

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.


An Atlas of Rare Lost and Forgotten Physical Signs (2009)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Fred White.

A field manual of disease signs for archaeologists working with human remains and medical anthropologists and clinicians working with indigenous cultures. Compiled over twenty years of forensic investigation at some of the world’s most sensitive archaeological sites in Asia - including Russia, China, India and Turkey, the Middle East, North and Sub-Sahara Africa, England, Scotland, Ireland, Twelve additional countries in Europe, North and Central America, and South America including the Amazon...


The autobiography of a Papago woman (1936)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Ruth M. Underhill.

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.


Avon Park AFR Environmental Assessments and Management Plans
PROJECT Acquisition and Restoration Council.

This project contains documents relating to both environmental assessments and management plans for the Avon Park Air Force Range, MacDill Air Force Base, and surrounding nature preserves.


Avonlea Systematics and Culture History. In Avonlea Yesterday and Today: Archaeology and Prehistory (1988)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas A. Foor.

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.


Aztec (2018)
DATASET Paula Sabloff. Jeffrey Cohen.

Dataset of 63 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on the Aztec imperial period (1350-1520 AD. Aztec=149 years only. 57 were considered "pre-imperial years," and 94 = "imperial years" [Hassig 2016:57-58]). For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy of anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles and behaviors are given as...


The Aztecs of Central Mexico: An Imperial Society (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frances F. Berdan.

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.


Balsalobre on Idolatry in Oaxaca (1959)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James H. Carmichael.

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.


Banda (Ghana) Research Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Ann Stahl

The Banda Research Project encompassed archaeological investigations in the Banda area, Bono Region, Ghana from 1982 through 2011. Investigations focused on sites dating to the last two millennia, with a particular focus on how life in the region was shaped by wider inter-regional and inter-continental networks. The project originated in Ann B. Stahl's PhD research (University of California, Berkeley), followed by multiple seasons of survey, site testing and wider excavations at sites dating to...


Banda Research Project, 1982-2011: Background to the Project (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ann B. Stahl.

This document describes the archaeological activities of the Banda Research Project, which from 1982-2011 investigated sites dating to the last two millennia in the Banda area, Bono Region, Ghana. It summarizes the project’s history and describes general excavation strategies and lab procedures as context for using the excavation field notes and other materials curated in The Digital Archaeological Record’s (tDAR) “Banda Through Time” Collection...


A Bathhouse and Plenty of Fresh Air: Archeology in a Thermal River Environment. the Marshall / Firehole Hotel (48YE773) Underwater Archeology Project Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park (2003)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Annalies Corbin. William J. Hunt, Jr.. Christopher F. Valvano. M.J. Harris.

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.


Beaver Island/Iles du Castor (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward J. Wahla.

Thirty-five miles northeast of Charlevoix in Lake Michigan lies a pleasant archipelago, "The Beavers". They were considered an outlying part of old Michillimackinac by the early French and seem to have been a haven for canoe Indians of the past who have left their mark in the form of low mounds and numerous stone-age relics scattered about the islands to be plowed up by farmers or gardeners. Irish today, a Mormon colony yesterday, a Chippewa garden in the past and a refuge for stone-age people...


Bellows Air Force Station Resources
PROJECT Uploaded by: Rachel Fernandez

Project metadata for resources within the Bellows Air Force Station cultural heritage resources collection.


Benin (2018)
DATASET George Haddad.

Dataset of 43 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on the Benin Kingdom (ca. 1200 to 1897 AD. For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy of anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles and behaviors are given as are all references from which the information came.


A bibliography of Tennessee anthropology, including Cherokee, Chickasaw, and Melungeon studies (1977)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald B. Ball.

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.


Big Bead Mesa: An Archaeological Study of Navajo Acculturation 1745-1812 (1941)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Dorothy L. Keur.

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.


Big South Fork Region Historic Context Study (2000)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Kim A. McBride. W. Stephen McBride.

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 Biopolitics of Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, and Settler Colonial Whiteness on Lingít Aaní (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam Kersch.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research project examines transformations in the relationship between race and biopolitics in Sitka, Alaska, focusing on infectious disease outbreaks over the past 200 years. Specifically, I interrogate the intersection of whiteness and infectious disease and suggest that the politicized concept of whiteness has shifted dramatically. I hypothesize that: 1) over the course of Russian and...


Bis Sa'ani: a Late Bonito Phase Community On Escanada Wash, Northwest New Mexico (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cory Dale Breternitz. 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.


Bison Drive of the Blackfeet Indians. In: Symposium On Buffalo Jumps, ED. By Carling Malouf and Stuart Conner, Pps. 28-34 (1962)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Claude E. Schaeffer.

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.


Bison Ecology and Nomadic Settlements / Subsistence Structure For the North Dakota Region (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jeffery R. Hanson.

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.


Black History in Pickens District, South Carolina - Volume I (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Parcho Baker. Heather Benfield. Robby Davis. Jewel Henderson. Melissa Hogan. Jennifer Stone. K. Sutherland.

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Black History in Pickens District, South Carolina - Volume II - Teacher Certification (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Erika Barksdale. Jonathan Clayton. Johanna Ferguson. Lakesha Garrett. Ryan Kirk. Quashunna Rhome. C. Scott.

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.