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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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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70 photographs of village life on the Santa Cruz Islands from CD that accompanies Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and its Social and Ritual Contexts.
W.J. and The Valley: The Story of W.J. Murphy and His Part in Developing the Salt River Valley in Arizona (1975)
Among the papers left by William John Murphy and his wife, Laura Fulwiler Murphy, were some 500 letters and other papers. Ralph Murphy recalling on his own memory, wrote a book that he hoped to get published through commercial channels. The author's agent that he dealt with insisted that his manuscript was too dull and urged him to make it more dramatic. This he attempted in a revision which he called W. J., which never got beyond the manuscript form. There is a store of information about W....
Waheenee, an Indian Girl's Story Told By Herself (1971)
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.
Washington Square Mound Site
Multi-component Caddo mound site located in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Waverly Plantation: Ethnoarchaeology of a Tenant Farming Community (1980)
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We Are Sons and Daughters of Bwoc': Refusal and Land Rights Protections in Rural Post-Conflict Acoliland, Northern Uganda (WGF - Post PhD Research Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Post PhD Research Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Seven years after the guns ceased to thunder in Northern Uganda, and four years after people left the squalid displacement camps to return home to their 'ancestral' lands, clans in rural areas in Acoliland began to create their own non-profit foundations. In doing so, many clans have had to contemplate, debate, and finally write their foundations' constitutions, mobilizing, translating, and...
Wearing Culture: Dress and Regalia in Early Mesoamerica and Central America (2014)
Wearing Culture connects scholars of divergent geographical areas and academic fields-from archaeologists and anthropologists to art historians-to show the significance of articles of regalia and of dressing and ornamenting people and objects among the Formative period cultures of ancient Mesoamerica and Central America. Documenting the elaborate practices of costume, adornment, and body modification in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Oaxaca, the Soconusco region of southern...
Wet Screening (2010)
Images illustrating the use of an on-site wet screening operation to maximize artifact recovery at the site of Fort St. Joseph, 2006-2010.
What Remains: Building Removal, Worker Retraining, and Toxic Materials in Detroit (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2017)
This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This project examines how the destruction of built environments reconfigures economic and environmental inequalities in the postindustrial United States. It does so by investigating the demolition of vacant buildings in Detroit. Estimated to number between 70,000 and 100,000, vacant buildings index decades of racially motivated population decline and deindustrialization. Such structures are...
Where did the Water Go? (2021)
This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". The Huhugam created a vast irrigation canal system that extended for miles feeding agricultural fields and villages along the Salt and Gila Rivers. When the Gila River ran dry the Gila River Indian Community worked hard to return the water to the people. The Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project, the first tribally built irrigation system would deliver...
Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Great Lakes; a Study In American Primitive Economics (1900)
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William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (1995)
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Women of New France - Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Booklet Series, No. 1 (2011)
The women of New France—French, Native, and métis—were active agents in a global process of colonization that led to interaction, conflict, and cooperation among peoples who participated in different cultural traditions, social institutions, and daily practices. In the course of migration from the Old World across the Atlantic, women helped to create the social, economic, and political conditions that fostered a French presence over a vast region for nearly two centuries. Documentary and...
Women of New France Panels (2010)
Series of interpretive panels created for the 2010 Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Open House. Individual panel themes are: Women of New France, Needle Arts, Clothing and Dress, Cooking, Music, Dance, and Diversions, Education and Literacy, Women in Trade and Diplomacy, and Women and Servitude.
Woodland-Like Manifestations In Nebraska (1940)
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The Working Agroscape of the Iron Age - Landscape History (1980)
This paper represents an assay into the vexed area of prehistoric and in particular Iron Age agriculture. This is offered rather more as a polemic than a statement and is designed to provoke argument rather than agreement. The majority of the experimental data from which the arguments are raised is drawn from the current research programs at the Butser Ancient Farm Research Project, Hampshire.
Working For Community: The Yaqui Indians at the Salt River Project (1996)
After fifty years of service,Juan Martinez retired from the Salt River Project on June 20, 1968. From the age of seventeen, Martinez had worked alongside hundreds of other Yaqui Indians maintaining the Salt River Valley’s irrigation system. For much of that time, he lived and raised his family in a company-owned labor camp—one of the largest Yaqui settlements in Arizona. At the camp, corporate interests cultivated the Indian community in a mutually beneficial arrangement that supported the...
Worlds Between Two Rivers: Perspectives On American Indians In Iowa (1978)
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Yamisevul: An Archaeological Treatment Plan and Testing Report for CA-RIV-269, Riverside County, California (1987)
Limited archaeological testing and archival research was conducted on three cultural resources located along Mission Creek in Riverside County, California. All three resources are located on land formerly belonging to the Mission Creek Indian Reservation. Two of the resources, the Kitchen/Thomas settlement complex and a subterranean stone structure, were occupied by former residents of the reservation during the early portion of the twentieth century. The third resource, CA-RIV-269, consists of...
Yanktonai Ethnohisotry and the John K. Bear Winter County (1976)
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Zapotec-Postclassic (2018)
Dataset of 37 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on the the Postclassic Zapotec, or Monte Alban V (1350 to 1521 AD). For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy or anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles/behaviors are given as are all references from which the information came.
Zur Herkunft verkohltes Getreidekörner in urgeschichtlich Siedlungen: eine alternative Erklärung (1993)
"On the origin of carbonised cereal grain in prehistoric settlements: an alternative interpretation" This is an English translation of a German article focusing on prehistoric carbonized cereal grain. ln the analysis of samples of carbonized seeds from prehistoric sites, the regular presumption is that these are the productof cereal or food processing. This paper presents the results of an extended series of trials which explore an alternative source of this type of evidence.