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This kind of research includes systematic description and analysis of changes in cultural systems through time, using historical documents and oral and traditional histories.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

701-725 (822 Records)

Santa Cruz Island Figure Sculpture and Its Social and Ritual Contexts (2005)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William H. Davenport.

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...

Scanned Asset Key, Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Visitor’s Center 1980 (2012)

DATASET Victor J. Plancarte.

This dataset contains a list of the assets scanned from the Archaeological Field Reconnaissance Salamonie Reservoir Visitor’s Center 1980, collection stored at Applied Archaeology Laboratories, Ball State University.

Scanned Asset Key, Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984 (2012)

DATASET Veterans Curation Program.

This dataset contains a list of the assets scanned from the Miami Occupation of the Upper Wabash Drainage 1984 collection stored at the Applied Archaeology Laboratories of Ball State University, Indiana.

Section on Pigeon Hunting (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Edwin N. Ferdon.

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.

A Seminole source book (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William C. Sturtevant.

Seneca Thanksgiving Rituals (1961)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wallace L. Chafe.

Settlement of the Prairie Margin: Archeology of the Richland Creek Reservoir, Navarro and Freestone Counties, Texas 1980-1981, a Research Synopsis (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James E. Bruseth. Others.

Settlement Trends in the Middle San Pedro Valley: A Cultural Resources Sample Survey of the Fort Huachuca Military Reservation (1990)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul. Bruce A. Jones.

The results of an 8,600-acre survey on the Fort Huachuca Military Reservation are presented. This survey was conducted as part of a larger inventory project, which in total encompassed 12,000 acres of the 73,000-acre fort. The report focuses on two objectives: presenting the descriptive results of the 8,600-acre survey and integrating the results from all surveys conducted on Fort Huachuca into a predictive model of prehistoric site location. The survey design had three main components. First,...

Shamanistic Rituals and the Interpretation of Ojibwa Rock Art (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thor Conway.

Shemya Island and the Question of Inland Sites (2008)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Debra Corbett.

During the July 2002 excavation of sewer lines at Eareckson Air Station, two prehistoric midden deposits containing shell, bone, whalebone, stone and bone artifacts, and human remains were exposed. The Air Force Remote Sites archaeologist, Karlene Leeper, halted the work until archaeologists could determine whether the remains represented an in situ cultural deposit, or whether midden was transported as fill from elsewhere. Joined by Diane Hanson of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Leeper...

Shoshone-Bannock Culture History (1986)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard N. Holmer.

Shí Kéyaa: The Western Apache Homeland and Archaeology of the Mogollon Rim (2009)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Angie Krall. Vincent E. Randall.

Western Apache history, as it relates to the State Route 260 (SR 260) Payson-to-Heber project implemented by Desert Archaeology, Inc., is summarized in this report. This project was conducted to mitigate the impact of highway realignment and improvement on cultural resources along a 74-km- (46-mile-) long stretch of right-of-way between Payson and Heber (Milepost 256 to Milepost 302) (Herr 1999).

Shí Kéyaa: The Western Apache Homeland and Archaeology of the Mogollon Rim (2009)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Angie Krall. Vincent E. Randall.

Significance Evaluations for Three Cultural Resources on the Ditz-Crane Mission Creek Property, Riverside County, California (1986)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jeffrey Altschul.

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...

Silver King to Hayden Transmission Line Study, Socio-Cultural Baseline Report (1976)

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.C. Fuller Associates.

This socio-cultural report is focused on the people who live and work in the area likely to be affected by the proposed transmission line. This area is generally those sections of eastern Pinal and western Gila counties which are primarily involved with the copper mining industry. Figure 1, the Socio-cultural study area map, shows this area. The area shown in Figure 1 includes populated areas not included in the specifically designated project study area as shown in Figure 2. This difference...

Six Mile and Murphys Rancherias: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Study of Two Central Sierra Miwok Village Sites (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only J. G. Maniery.

Sloop Island Canal Boat Study: Phase III Archaeological Investigation in Connection with the Environmental Remediation of the Pine Street Canal Superfund Site (2010)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Adam I. Kane. Joanne M. Dennis. Scott A. McLaughlin. Christopher R. Sabick.

This report presents the results of a Phase III archaeological investigation of the Sloop Island Canal Boat submerged in the Charlotte, Chittenden County, Vermont waters of Lake Champlain. The archaeological study was undertaken as an off-site mitigation in connection with the Pine Street Canal Superfund site, located in Burlington, Vermont. The archaeological fieldwork at the Sloop Island Canal Boat was conducted during ten weeks in 2002 and 2003 by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and...

Some Aspects of the Jumano Problem (1940)

DOCUMENT Citation Only France V. Scholes. H. P. Mera.

Some Comments On Anthropological Studies Concerning the Caddo (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dee Ann Story.

Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians (1931)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

Source Material for the Social and Ceremonial Life of the Choctaw Indians (1993)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

Source Material on the History and Ethnology of the Caddo Indians (1942)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

The Southeastern ceremonial complex and its interpretation (1960)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James Henri Howard.

Southeastern Colorado Ethnohistorical Research Conducted In 1987 (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William G. Buckles.

Southeastern Indians (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles M. Hudson.

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