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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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.

676-700 (822 Records)

Refinements in Hernando de Soto's Route Through Georgia and South Carolina (1990)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles M. Hudson. John E. Worth. Chester B. DePratter.

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Religious Beliefs of Early Great Lakes Indians (1957)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Edward J. Wahla.

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Religious Syncretism in Spanish America (1967)
DOCUMENT Citation Only B. C. Hedrick.

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Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East: Recent Contributions from Bioarchaeology and Mortuary Archaeology (2014)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Chelsea Walter

Remembering the Dead in the Ancient Near East is among the first comprehensive treatments to present the diverse ways in which ancient Near Eastern civilizations memorialized and honored their dead, using mortuary rituals, human skeletal remains, and embodied identities as a window into the memory work of past societies. In six case studies teams of researchers with different skill sets—osteological analysis, faunal analysis, culture history and the analysis of written texts, and artifact...


Report For Glamis / Sand Hills Ethnographic Study (1980)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Paige R. Talley.

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Report of Class II Survey and Testing of Cultural Resources at Conchas Lake, New Mexico (1986)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Karen Kramer. Others.

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Report of Class III Survey and Testing of Cultural Resources at Cuchillo, New Mexico (1987)
DOCUMENT Citation Only John C. Acklen. Others.

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Report of the Truk Island Road Archaeological Survey, Truk District, Trust Territory of the Pacific (1979)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Rob Edwards.

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Report On Burial Site 34Bl-60, the Fletcher Cemetery, Located During Transok, Inc., Pipeline Construction In Blaine County, Oklahoma (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher Cojeen. Susan Goode-Null.

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Research Design: Cultural Resources Inventory Program for the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California (1989)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Altschul Jeffrey H.. Richard Ciolek-Torello. Jerome Schaefer.

A research design for the phased inventory of cultural resources on the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center at Twentynine Palms, California, is presented. The survey design is oriented around a series of research questions pertinent to current studies of prehistoric and historic cultures of the eastern Mojave Desert. For prehistoric periods, these questions focus on cultural chronology, paleoecological reconstruction, and settlement and subsistence. Ethnohistoric research questions revolve...


Research Proposal; Processes of Social Change From Simple to Complex: a Kosraean Case Study (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Takeshi Ueki.

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Results of Geophysical Survey and Historic Names Reasearch Of The California Trail Segments Located Within The Boundaries Of The City of Rocks National Reserve, Cassia County, Idaho (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Albert M. LeBeau III. Ashley Barnett. Curtis H. Sedlacek.

The City of Rocks National Reserve is a location with ties to America’s emigrant past. The primary significance at the Reserve is the California Trail and associated features. The National Park Service’s National Trails Intermountain Region requested the National Park Service’s Midwest Archeological Center assist the City of Rocks National Reserve in geophysical survey and historic names research projects. The projects utilized geophysical prospection techniques to answer questions posed by the...


Revaluation of the Eastern Siouan Proplem With Particular Emphasis On the Virginia Branches--the Occaneechi, the Saponi, and the Tutelo (1957)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Carl F. Miller.

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Revised Archeological Treatment Plan for Sites Affected by the Arkansas City Bypass and Levee Project. (1995)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Marlin Hawley.

Treatment plan for mitigation of site impacted by highway construction.


River Basin Surveys Papers, No. 4: Archeological Survey of the Addicks Dam Basin, Southeast Texas (1953)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Joe Ben Wheat.

The archeological survey of the Addicks Dam Basin was initiated in March 1947 by the writer as a part of the River Basin Surveys. The initial phase of the operation involved the locating, testing, and evaluation of all sites likely to be damaged or lost through the construction of the reservoir and associated channel rectification and subsequent inundation, silting, etc. This phase culminated in the partial excavation of two sites, begun late in May and concluded on July 15, 1947. This paper...


The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study, Volume 3: Changing Land Use in the Tonto Basin (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Maria Molina

The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study. The RRSS...


The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study, Volume 3: Changing Land Use in the Tonto Basin (1994)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Keith Kintigh

The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc. to conduct this study. The RRS was...


The Roots and Development of Mestizo Culture (1961)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Abstract of paper presented to the American Ethnological Society, 1961. Subsequently published in the, "Journal of East Asian Studies." Vol.8, no.1, p.15-20 (1959).


The Sa'ilele Malumalu
DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Theroux.

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SAA podium slides (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Jay van der Reijden.

pdf copy of podium presentation slides


Sacred or Secular: Religious Materiality on the French Colonial Frontier (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Andrew Beaupré.

My research examines archaeologically recovered artifacts and documentary sources to gain an understanding of the role that religious material culture played on the French colonial frontier, ca. 1608-1763. This study revisits the claims made by Rinehart (1990), stating that religious items are more likely to be recovered from the archaeological record at sites near Jesuit missions. I examined a large portion of the French colonial archaeological literature and located 30 sites that have yielded...


Salvageable Lives: Pathogens, People, and Politics in Lebanon's Anticipated Collapse (WGF - Dissertation Fieldwork Grant) (2021)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Anthony Rizk.

This resource is an application for the Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. This research examines salvage: its different meanings, the theoretical directions it leads to, and how it contributes to understanding social life in Lebanon -a country that, for some time now, has been described as being on the brink of collapse. Among scientists repurposing microbial samples in laboratories, physicians using salvage therapies in clinics, and political activists constantly...


Samoan Tia'ave and Social Structure: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations (1993)
DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Herdrich. Jeffrey T. Clark.

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San Luis Rey Mission Report on the Historical and Archaeological Study of Its Primary Construction and Indian Villages Associated with It. . . 1798-1913 (1968)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicholas M. Magalousis.

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Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts
PROJECT Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

In this ethnographic study of traditional sculpture from Santa Cruz Island, near the Solomon Islands in the southwest Pacific the late anthropologist William H. Davenport presents a distinctive genre of figure sculpture produced for and used in traditional religious rituals and ceremonies. The body of the book discusses the history of Santa Cruz Island society since the first Europeans came to the area in 1595, the cultural meanings of its most conspicuous features, and descriptions of the...