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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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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An Overview of the Cultural Resources of the Western Mojave Desert (1980)
DOCUMENT Full-Text E. Gary Stickel. Lois J. Weinman-Roberts.

The results of a literature search are presented in this study. The literature search pertained to all unpublished and published written works relative to cultural resources located within the study area. These cultural resources consist of prehistoric and ethnohistoric archaeological sites as well as historic sites. Altogether the project area encompasses a vast amount of land in the western Mojave Desert of approximately 2.35 million acres. The majority of the project area is located within...

Overview of the Prehistory of Western and Central North Dakota (1985)
DOCUMENT Citation Only M. L. Gregg.

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.

Papers On the Archaeology of the Texas Coast (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lynn Highley. T. R. Hester.

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.

Payaya Indians of Southern Texas (1975)
DOCUMENT Citation Only T. N. Campbell.

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.

Payson/Star Valley Archaeology, CE800-1250
PROJECT Uploaded by: Harry Swanson

Archaeological and cultural assumptions based upon analysis of sites below the Mogollon Rim but within the Pine, Payson, Star Valley, Round Valley areas.

People of the Thick Fur Woods: Two Hundred Years of Bois Forte Chippewa Occupation of the Voyageurs National Park Area (2002)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey J. Richner.

This report documents historical and archeological research regarding the historic use of the area now subsumed within Voyageurs National Park by members of the Bois Forte Band of Minnesota Chippewa Indians. It synthesizes historical and archeological data collected over a 16-year period by the author and Voyageurs National Park Cultural Resource Specialist Mary Graves. The period from 1736 through 1941 is the basic focus for research, with the period from 1880 to 1930 considered in greatest...

People of the Willows: the Prehistory of the Hidatsa Indians (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only S. A. Ahler. T. D. Thiessen. M. K. Trimble.

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Peoples of the Plains (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. R. Parks. M. Liberty. A. Ferenci.

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"Persistence and Power" a Study of Native American Peoples in the Sonoran Desert and the Devers-Palo Verde High Voltage Transmission Line (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lowell John Bean. Sylvia Brakke Vane.

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Perspectives of Culture History in the Lower Sabine River Valley (1978)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert B. Grambling.

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Phase II Cultural Resources Inventory of 7,000 Acres at Lower Thirsty Canyon and Rocket Wash, Nevada Test and Training Range, Nye County, Nevada (2016)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Mark A. Giambastiani. Emily S. Middleton.

This report documents the results of a Phase II cultural resources inventory of 7,000 acres on Range 77 (EC South), Nellis Air Force Base (NAFB), Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) Nye County, Nevada. Surveyed acreage encompasses two adjacent drainage corridors, lower Thirsty Canyon and lower Rocket Wash, both of which had been selected for the establishment of targets to be used in live-fire air-to-ground combat training. The NAFB/NTTR proposes to establish seven target zones in Thirsty...

Pilot Study of Wichita Indian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert E. Bell. Others.

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The Pima Lateral: Historic-era Native American Irrigation Agriculture on the Lehi Terrace (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Christopher Rayle.

This is a presentation from the 2021 Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) Fall symposium on "The Archaeology of Canals in the Arizona Desert". Recent data recovery operations conducted on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community by North Wind Resource Consulting (North Wind) resulted in two subsurface exposures of the Pima Lateral, an historic irrigation canal that served as the principal irrigation work for the early northside community prior to the creation of the Salt River Indian...

PIN 9041.13.121
PROJECT New York State Department of Transportation.

This project contains reports generated as part of archaeological investigations for PIN 9041.12.121 In April of 1994, the Public Archaeology Facility (PAF) through the Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Binghamton contracted with the State Education Department of New York to perform Paragraph 3 and 4 cultural resource surveys for the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) highway projects located in Regions 3, 4, 5, 6 and 9. The Paragraph 4 site...

Pinon Canyon - Ethnohistory and Native American Religious Concerns: Toyavita Piavuhuru Koroin (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard W. Stoffle. Henry F. Dobyns. Michael J. Evans. Omer C. Stewart.

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Pinon Canyon - History and Oral History Interim Report (1984) (1984)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul D. Friedman.

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Pinon Canyon - Interim Management Report - Ethnohistory and Native American Religious Concerns (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard W. Stoffle.

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The 'Placebo Effect' in Highland Laos: Insights from Akha Medicine and Shamanism into the Problem of Ritual Efficacy (WGF - Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship) (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Giulio Ongaro.

This resource is an application for the Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. How do indigenous practitioners successfully heal? What can we learn from animistic medical traditions? My research has examined these questions through long-term ethnographic fieldwork on the healing practices of the Akha, a group of non-literate swidden farmers living in highland Laos. I documented for the first time in detail the system of Akha healing sacrifices and their shamanic...

Plain Folk of the Old South (1949)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank L. Owsley.

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Plains Cree: An Ethnographic, Historical, and Comparative Study (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only D. G. Mandelbaum.

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Plains Trade In Prehistoric and Protohistoric Intertribal Relations (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only W. Raymond Wood.

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Plains-Ojibwa or Bungi: Hunters and Warriors of the Northern Prairies With Special Reference To the Turtle Mountain Band (1965)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James H. Howard.

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Plan Drawings Terrace S19 (2010)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This pdf file contains the plan drawings from the excavations of Terrace S19 on Cerro Danush.

Plan Drawings Terrace S25, Cerro Danush (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Ronald Faulseit.

This .pdf contains the plan drawings for the excavation units on Terrace S25, Cerro Danush, Oaxaca, Mexico. Please consult the project report for 2015 for more information.

Plantations Without Pillars: Archaeology, Wealth, and Material Life at Bush Hill
PROJECT Savannah River Operations Office, United States Department of Energy.

"The results of archaeological investigations conducted at Bush Hill plantation (site 38AK660) by personnel with the Savannah River Archaeological Research Program are summarized in the following monograph. Bush Hill plantation is located near Upper Three Runs Creek in Aiken County, South Carolina on the Savannah River Site, a nuclear research facility operated by the U.S. Department of Energy. Data recovery excavations were conducted at the site between 1996 and 1999 in response to the...