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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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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Final Report on 1he 1987 Archaeological Excavations At Ca-Hum-182, Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, California (BLM) (1993)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Sharon A. Waechter.

This report describes the results of data recovery excavations at CA-HUM-182 on the Humboldt County coast in the spring and summer of 1987. The excavation was carried out by students and faculty from Sonoma State University and Santa Rosa Junior College, with the aid of volunteers and staff archaeologists from the Bureau of Land Management. A total of 113 artifacts were recovered, along with large quantities of shellfish remains and smaller amounts of terrestrial and marine faunal bone. Areas...

Final Report, Micronesian Resources Study: Republic of the Marshall Islands Ethnography Component (1990)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lin Poyer.

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.

Finding Aid, Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984 (2012)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John Elliott.

In 1983, Ball State University submitted a draft proposal to the Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources for a Department of the Interior Survey and Planning Grant. The proposal requested funds to formulate an ethnohistoric study unit for the Miami Indian occupation of the Upper Wabash drainage in central Indiana. The proposed project was to be carried out by William R. Wepler in four stages: study unit construction, background research,...

Fingerprints in the Great Basin: The Nellis Air Force Base Regional Obsidian Sourcing Study (2005)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Lynn Haarklau. Lynn Johnson. David L. Wagner.

To support the work involved in developing a PA, Nellis AFB determined that the area of research should be expanded for the entire north NTTR, 2 million acres, a region of intense volcanism. In 2000, the Air Force funded a large-scale scientific investigation of obsidian and its human associations on 2 million acres on the NTTR, the largest study done in terms of acreage and numbers of artifacts analyzed.

First Americans (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Claiborne.

First Encounters: Spanish Explorations in the Carribean and the United States, 1492-1570 (1989)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerald T. Milanich. Susan Milbreath.

Fitting People into the Late Prehistory of the Northeastern Plains: a Need To Return To a Holistic Anthropological Approach (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only E. Leigh Syms.

The Flathead Indians of Montana (1937)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Harry Holbert Turney-High.

Fleur de Lys and Calumet: Being the Penicaut Narrative of French Adventure in Louisiana (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richebourg G. McWilliams.

Florida Indians and Spanish Occupation (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Donald B. Ball.

Florida Indians and the Invasion From Europe (1995)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jerald T. Milanich.

Food Plants of the North American Indians (1936)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elias Yanovsky.

Fort St. Joseph 1.0: Creating a Comprehensive Information Management Scheme for the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project (2010)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Erin Claussen.

This thesis documents the effort to curate digital information associated with the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, which has been generated over the past decade of investigation of the site of Fort St. Joseph, an 18th century mission, garrison, and trading post complex located in present-day Niles, MI. A review of literature on the subject of archaeological curation and collections management was undertaken to inform the approach to execution of this project, which included the creation...

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project

PROJECT Michael Nassaney.

The Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project is a collaboration between Western Michigan University and the City of Niles, MI to investigate, interpret, and preserve the physical remains of the site of Fort St. Joseph, a mission, garrison, and trading post complex occupied from 1691 to 1781 by the French then British. Since its inception, the Project has cultivated a robust program of public archaeology to involve and invest the community in the preservation of the site and more generally, the...

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project Logo (2009)

IMAGE Randy Peyser.

Logo developed for the Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project. Incorporates feathers into the French fleur-de-lis, symbolizing the multi-faceted interactions and negotiations between Native and European peoples that took place in the context of the fur trade at Fort St. Joseph. Blue and red are representative of the colors of the French flag.

Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project: 2000 Letter Report (2000)