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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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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A Dictionary of the Choctaw Language (1915)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Cyrus Byington.

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Dietary Mineral Ecology of the Hopi (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Harriet V. Kuhnlein.

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Dimensions of Status in the Burials at Spiro (1971)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James A. Brown.

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Dine Bikeyah (1941)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Richard F. Van Valkenburgh.

diné bikéyah "The Navajo's Country", is primarily a guide book and gazetteer of the Navajo country and adjacent regions. While but a fraction of the Navajo place names have been listed, those given have been selected as most important and interesting to government employees, students, and travelers. Furthermore, it is hoped that diné bikéyah now using the official Indian Department system of writing the Navajo language, will make it possible to standardize and crystalize into universal spelling...


Dirt to Desk: Macrobotanical Analyses From Fort St. Joseph (20BE23) and The Lyne Site (20BE10) (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text David Martinez.

Fort St. Joseph, a seventeenth- to eighteenth-century archaeological site in southwestern Michigan, and the adjacent Lyne site provide a recent and ongoing example of historical archaeology posing questions about the notion of culture contact during French colonialism. Effective research questions, increasingly systematic procedures, and a balance between historical and archaeological material have served to solidify and situate the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project’s contributions to...


The Disappearing Island: The Effect of Imminent Displacement on Social Exchange Relations on Tangier Island (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jonna Yarrington.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Tangier Island is a small, incorporated town, just over one square mile, of 470 inhabitants in the Chesapeake Bay, belonging to Accomack County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, USA. Its residents are densely related watermen and their families--mostly white, lower income, politically conservative, Christian, and skeptical of science and climate change. Endogamous marriage is preferred,...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-022: A Brief View of Homesteading in the Primary Project Area with a Test Model of the Basic Homesteading Periods (1978)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven Baker.

This report summarizes the results obtained in the first year of historical studies on the Dolores Archaeological Program in Montezuma and Dolores counties in southwestern Colorado. The investigations were performed by Centuries Research, Inc., of Montrose, Colorado, under terms of a subcontract with the University of Colorado. This report presents two introductory historical research reports on the documentary history of the area by Duane Smith and the results of Steven Baker's historic site...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-053: History and Historic Archaeology (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Deborah A. Duranceau.

The Dolores Archaeological Program will mitigate the archaeological remains in the area to be inundated by the McPhee Reservoir. This mitigation plan calls for a complete synthesis of the historic period in the Dolores area. Beginning with the Protohistoric Utes and Navajo, the Historic Studies 1979 field year volume will report on the eighteenth century Spanish explorers and the nineteenth century Euro-American settlers. Results of the historic survey, oral history program, and artifact...


Dolores Archaeological Program Technical Reports, DAP-073: Identifying Food Processing Activities: The Ethnographic Resource Base (1982)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Judith A. Southward.

This report presents the results of research undertaken to identify food processing activities using ethnographic and ethnohistorical documents as a resource base. Specifically the proceedings of the study as they relate to the DAP conceptual framework of research will be discussed, as well as the data sets contained within the model of inquiry. In addition, some comments on the appropriateness of ethnographic analogy as it relates to this study will be discussed. A general profile of the...


Down by the River: Archaeological and Historical Studies of the Leon Family Farmstead (2005)
DOCUMENT Full-Text J. Homer Thiel.

A brief cultural background of the Tucson Basin and a set of research questions that guided work at BB:13:157 and BB:13:505 have been presented in Chapter 1. The work at prehistoric sites is presented in Chapter 2, while Chapter 3 chronicles the history of the Leon family and their property. Excavations at the Leon farmstead and the adjacent historic period canal are described in Chapter 4. The historic-period artifacts recovered from the Leon farmstead are examined in Chapter 5. Chapter 6...


Doyon Utilities Raptor Transmission Line Phase I Archaeological Survey Report, United States Air Force Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Morgan R. Blanchard. Andy Higgs.

Doyon Utilities, LLC implemented the construction of the Raptor Transmission Line (RTL) located on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) at the direction of the 673d Civil Engineering Squadron to enhance the electrical distribution system found on the installation. Weston Solutions, Inc. (WS) has been contracted by Doyon Utilities to provide environmental permitting services for the project. WS contracted with Northern Land Use Research (NLUR) to conduct a Level I "reconnaissance"...


Draft: Cultural Resource Studies North Fork Stanislaus River Hydroelectric Development Project Volume I: Ethnohistory, Part II: Upper Mountain Locale Alpine and Tuolumne Counties, California (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. P. Peters.

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Draft: Diné Traditional Cultural Property Inventory at Fort Wingate Depot Activity (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher M. Moreno. Giorgio H. Curti. Dayna Bowker Lee.

This report summarizes the inventory of Dine (Navajo) Traditional Cultural Properties (TCPs) at Fort Wingate Depot Activity (FWDA). FWDA as a whole is part of Dine Bikeyah (Navajoland) and is connected to and embedded in Dine sacred geographies. As such, it is part of a Dine traditional cultural landscape and is recommended eligible for inclusion on the NRHP as an historic district TCP. Three component landscapes at FWDA that also function as contributing elements to this historic district were...


DRAFT: Final Report of the New Melones Archaeological Project; Volume II: Cultural Background, Regional Archeology, Ethnography, and History (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. K. Goldberg. A. L. Hall. M. J. Moratto. D. J. Theodoratus. T. M. Van Bueren. T. L. Brejla.

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Early Collecting in the Vicinity of Fort St. Joseph (1900)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Erin Claussen

Early 20th century collectors, likely Beeson and Crane in the vicinity of the site of Fort St. Joseph. At the time, the land was in till.


Early History of the Creek Indians and Their Neighbors (1922)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

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Early Hominin Paleoecology (2013)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

An introduction to the multidisciplinary field of hominin paleoecology for advanced undergraduate students and beginning graduate students, Early Hominin Paleoecology offers an up-to-date review of the relevant literature, exploring new research and synthesizing old and new ideas. Recent advances in the field and the laboratory are not only improving our understanding of human evolution but are also transforming it. Given the increasing specialization of the individual fields of study in...


Early Man In the New World (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard S. MacNeish.

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Early Mdewakanton Dakota Culture and Interpretations For Archaeology: a Re-Evaluation, 1640-1780 (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Bryce Little.

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Early Plains Village Sites In Northeastern South Dakota (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James K. Haug.

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Early Tonga: As the Explorers Saw It (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin N. Ferdon.

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Early Village Formation In the Middle Missouri Subarea of the Plains (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. L. Toom.

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Early Woodland Period In Iowa (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph A. Tiffany.

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Eating Ethnicity: Examining 18th Century French Colonial Identity Through Selective Consumption of Animal Resources in the North American Interior (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Rory Becker.

Cultural identities can be created and maintained through daily practice and food consumption is one such practice. People need food in order to survive, but the types of food they eat are largely determined by the interaction of culture and their environment. By approaching the topic of subsistence practices as being culturally constituted, the study of foodways provides an avenue to examine issues of cultural identity through selective consumption. Eating certain foods to the exclusion of...


EC South Range Archaeological Characterization Nevada Test and Training Range (2009)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael Cook. Marcus Grant. Eric Hansen. Richard Arnold. Sherri Wenzlau. Robert Dickerson.

Geo-Marine, Inc., conducted archaeological inventory of 6,989 acres on EC South Range, part of the Nellis Test and Training Range. The primary goal of the project was to integrate empirical data, including associations of features and material culture with potential sacred significance, and ethnographic data to characterize the archaeological resources of EC South Range. Ethnographic data were provided by Native American crew members during fieldwork. The project addressed requirements under...