Methodology, Theory, or Synthesis (Investigation Type)

A non-field study of archaeological theory, method or technique. These investigations may also include broadly synthetic regional studies.

3,051-3,075 (3,485 Records)

The Southeastern ceremonial complex and its interpretation (1960)
DOCUMENT Citation Only James Henri Howard.

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The Southern Maya in the Late Preclassic: The Rise and Fall of an Early Mesoamerican Civilization (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Uploaded by: Leigh Anne Ellison

From 400 BC to AD 250, the southern Maya region was one of the most remarkable civilizations of the ancient Americas. Filled with great cities linked by flourishing long-distance trade, shared elite ideologies, and a vibrant material culture, this region was pivotal not only for the Maya but for Mesoamerica as a whole. Although it has been of great interest to scholars, gaps in the knowledge have led to debate on the most vital questions about the southern region. Recent research has provided a...


Southwest Mortuary Database Project: 2011 SAA E-Session: Mortuary Practices in the American Southwest: Meta-Data Issues in the Development of a Regional Database
PROJECT Gordon Rakita. M Scott Thompson.

The study of prehistoric mortuary practices in the American Southwest is undergoing tremendous change in the new millennium. The challenges (and opportunities) of NAGPRA implementation, declines in the number of large samples being excavated, and loss of data from previously excavated samples have altered mortuary archaeology in the region. Given this state of affairs, the development of an integrated regional database of prehistoric mortuary practices is imperative. This session at the 76th...


Southwestern Archaeology: a Bibliography (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank G. Anderson.

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The Spanish in the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1804 (1974)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

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A Spatial Analysis of San Juan Red Ware Using Least Cost Paths (2017)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Robert Bischoff.

A fundamental part of interaction is distance. Distance can be calculated in many ways. GIS applications allow the calculation of least cost paths between locations. Often the length of this path is used as the distance between points; however, the amount of time it takes to traverse a path may differ for paths with the same length that traverse different topography. In this poster, I use the distribution of San Juan Red Ware in a portion of the southwestern United States to examine the...


A Spatial Analysis of the Hohokam Community of La Ciudad (1987)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Glen E. Rice.

Of the many valleys in the southern desert of Arizona, the prehistoric Hohokam concentrated the largest and greatest of their communities in the Phoenix basin. It was here that they constructed the most elaborate and extensive of their canal networks. Their success drew on two unique characteristics of the basin environment. The first was the Salt River; the most competent and consistent source of water in the southern desert, it surpasses five-fold the volume and capacity of the Gila River to...


A Spatial Analysis of the Level of Constructedness of the Small Sites around Pueblo la Plata and Pueblo Pato (2007)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Colleen Strawhacker.

The level of constructedness of archaeological sites can provide insight into the amount of planning, labor and time invested into building structures. Further understanding into the time, labor and planning invested into architecture can allow for inferences to made on the residential mobility of the population, intensity of surrounding land use and social importance assigned to each pueblo (Cameron 1999). This paper will explore and compare the architectural constructedness of small sites...


Specialized Problems of Archaeological Pollen Studies (1962)
DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology, 1962. Explores limitations of pollen studies intentionally designed to resolve problems of archaeological significance: issues of pollen preservation, cultural effects on the record, horizon/pollen zone duration, extraction technology, necessity to recognize interdisciplinary effects on methods and interpretation.


Speculations On Some Pictograph Sites in the Region of Amistad Reservoir (1966)
DOCUMENT Citation Only T. Grieder.

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Spiro carving (2010)
IMAGE Timothy Pauketat.

Carving representing the Braden A style, from Spiro, Oklahoma. Dates to AD 1200. This image is interpreted as the Morning Star by James Brown. According to Tim Pauketat and others, the long nosed god maskette earrings reference Tlaloc imagery.


Spiro Mounds Archeological State Park (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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Spiro Mounds Site (1976)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Mary Ann Holmes. Marsha Hill.

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Spiro Mounds: Prehistoric Gateway... Present Day Enigma (1983)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Don G. Wyckoff. Dennis Peterson.

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Spiro Star Men (2010)
IMAGE Uploaded by: Jacob Skousen

This is an image of a shell gorget from Spiro. Shows two "Star Men." Image courtesy of Tim Pauketat.


Spitalfields faunal main information datasheet with contextual data (2011)
DATASET James Morris.

This table contains the main faunal information such as species and element, the contextual and dating information and an indication if toothwear, modification and metrical information are present.


Spitalfields faunal measurement data sheet
DATASET James Morris.

This datasheet holds additional data on the measurements taken. Measurement taken, using a number code. The number corresponds with that used in Von Den Driesh 1976. When Von Den Driesh has not used a number (as in long bones) the numbers correspond to the order of Von Den Drieshs measurements (i.e. for the humerus Gl=1, BP=4 etc)


Spitalfields faunal modification datasheet (2011)
DATASET James Morris.

This data is in addition to the main faunal datasheet and contains information on bone modifications such as butchery, working, burning and gnawing.


Spitalfields faunal tooth wear data sheet (2011)
DATASET James Morris.

This datasheet contains the tooth wear information. The wear of an individual tooth measured using the Grant 1982 method. Number rather than letter codes are used. Therefore wear stage a=6, g=12 and p=20 etc.


Spitalfields Project
PROJECT Uploaded by: Shelby Manney

The Spitalfields Market excavations in London were one of the biggest and most exciting archaeological projects in Britain, uncovering a Roman cemetery, a medieval priory and its churchyard (including the remains of nearly 11,000 people buried there), and the remains of hundreds of houses dating to the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. The excavations, running from 1991 to 2002 also recovered the largest group of artefacts ever found in London. The excavations consisted of a number of different...


The Sponemann Site (11-Ms-517): the Formative Emergent Mississippian Sponemann Phase Occupations (1991)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Andrew C. Fortier. Thomas O. Maher. Joyce A. Williams.

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The Sponemann Site 2 (11-Ms-517): the Mississippian and Oneota Occupations (1992)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Douglas K. Jackson. Andrew C. Fortier. Joyce A. Williams.

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Sponge Decorated Whiteware from Nineteenth-Century Contexts (2014)
IMAGE RGA Inc. . Allison Gall.

Top Row: Plate fragment (PCN 975; 73c). Bottom Row, Left to Right: Saucer (PCN 1094; 70c); Saucer (PCN 782; 71c); Cup (PCN 878; 61c); Cup (PCN 976; 67c).


Spring 2004 Architecture Studies at Pueblo La Plata (2004)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Karen Schollmeyer.

Studies of the architecture of Pueblo La Plata, particularly room construction sequences, formed one component of the Legacies on the Landscape project research in 2004. The goals of this portion of the project were to improve our understanding of how the pueblo was built, and to gain a sense of population size and changes over time. In particular, we wished to determine whether a sizeable core area of rooms (representing the first construction phase of the pueblo) was visible, and whether the...


Springs of Texas - Vol. 2 (1982)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Gunnar Brune.

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.