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.

876-900 (3,496 Records)

Carbon-14 Dates and Early Man In the New World, In Pleistocene Extinctions: the Search For a Cause, Edited By P. E. Martin and H. E. Wright, Jr (1967)

DOCUMENT Citation Only C. Vance Haynes, Jr..

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The Carlota Copper Mine Testing Project: Prehistoric Occupation in the Globe Uplands, Gila and Pinal Counties, Arizona (1994)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Douglas R. Mitchell. M. Zyniecki.

The Carlota Prehistoric Testing Program, conducted for the Carlota Copper Company near Miami, Arizona, because of proposed mining operations, sought to determine which sites in a previously surveyed area contained data classes that would allow specific Historic Contexts to be addressed. The survey identified 87 sites, 55 of them prehistoric, in thé 2600-acre study area. After study area boundary reductions, 51 prehistoric sites were examined during the testing project. The Apache Tribe...

The Carmouche Site: Archeology in Georgia's Western Fall Line Hills (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas H. Gresham. W. Dean Wood. Chad O. Braley. Karen G. Wood.

The Carnegie Maya IV: Carnegie Institution of Washington Theoretical Approaches to Problems, 1941-1947 (2012)

DOCUMENT Full-Text John M. Weeks.

The Carnegie Maya IV is the fourth in a series of volumes that make available the primary data and interpretive studies originally produced by archaeologists and anthropologists in the Maya region under the umbrella of the Carnegie Institute of Washington's Division of Historical Research. Collected together here are the Theoretical Approaches to Problems papers, a series that published preliminary conclusions to advance thought processes and stimulate debate. Although two of the three theories...

The Caron Site (1Ba376): Archaeological Excavation of a Fort Walton Site in Baldwin County, Alabama (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Prentice M. Thomas, Jr.. L. Janice Campbell. Carol S. Weed.

The Carrier Mills Archaeological Project: Human Adaptation in the Saline Valley, Illinois, Volume Two (1982)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Richard W. Jefferies. Brian M. Butler.

Casa Grande Arizona (1913)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jesse Walter Fewkes.

This document is an extract from the 28th annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. It chronicles the excavations at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument between 1906 and 1907.

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca

PROJECT Charles C. Di Peso.

CASAS GRANDES, a three-volume set, is the fascinating narrative of the monumental excavation and research which have been accomplished by The Amerind Foundation over the past fifteen years. Dr. Charles Di Peso and his colleagues have proposed new and unique theories concerning the people of the Gran Chichimeca and the development, dissemination and decline of their cultures. This massive publication, documenting one of the most significant of archaeological investigations, will be a landmark of...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 1, Preceramic - Viejo Periods (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

"The archaeological zone of Casas Grandes lies within this unknown expanse. Its cultural core is that prehistoric metropolis of which Bandelier counseled: I also venture to suggest that the earliest possible date the ruins of Casas Grandes be thoroughly investigated, since excavations, if systematically conducted, cannot fail to produce valuable results." -Bandelier, A.D. 1892 Comments such as these kindled the flame of curiosity and directed the Amerind Foundation, Inc., to turn its...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 2, Medio Period (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

It is believed that sometime around the year A.D. 1060 a group of sophisticated Mesoamerican merchants came into the valley of the Casas Grandes and inspired the indigenous Chichimecans to build the city of Paquime over portions of an older Viejo Period village. These foreign donors may have been drawn here by specific information supplied to them by their family-affiliated spying vanguards, who perhaps lived with the frontiersmen during the last phase of the Viejo Period. These organizers who...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 3, Tardio and Espanoles Periods (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso.

The Chichimecan Revolt of the 1340s tore asunder the weakened body politic of the Paquime province and in so doing radically changed the settlement pattern in the old kingdom. In the Robles Phase, the city, along with some satellite villages in the Casas Grandes Valley, was abandoned and the political power, as well as the economic wealth, shifted to such northerly towns as were located in the Zuni, Hopi, Mogollon, and the eastern Anasazi-Chichimecan homelands. Some of the Paquime artisans may...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 4, Architecture and Dating Methods (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

In the case of The Joint Casas Grandes Expedition, correlating the past in terms of the Christian calendar required considerable assistance from members of many other scientific disciplines who were not directly involved with the actual excavations. This scholastic absenteeism created a few communication problems, but in every case the effort of informative dialogue proved very worthwhile, inasmuch as it led to the re-creation of a Paquimian historical continuum, which was one of the primary...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 5, Architecture (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

The serpentine mound after which Unit 11 was named was located in Blocks 22 and 23, extending slightly into Block 24, of the Sanchez Bjanco map. To the E, in Blocks 32, 33, 42, and 43, was the house-cluster. Unit 11 was entirely surrounded by an open expanse, with Unit 10 to the NE and Reservoir 2 further to the E. The house-cluster measured 68.30 m. in length on the N-S axis and 56.80 m. in width on the E-W axis, an area of 3,200 sq. m. Included within the house-cluster were 25 single story...

Casas Grandes: A Fallen Trading Center of the Gran Chichimeca, Volume 8, Stone and Metal Bone, Perishables, Commerce, Subsistence, and Burials (1974)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Charles C. Di Peso. John B. Rinaldo. Gloria J. Fenner.

During the course of excavations a total of 885 bone artifacts was recovered. Four (0.5%) of these were in Viejo Period association, 877 (99.1%) belonged to the Medio Period, and four (0.5%) to the San Antonio Phase of the Espafioles Period. All of the Viejo Period specimens were utilitarian implements and included a plaiting tool, a coarse coil basketry awl, and two other awls with broken tips. These were simply made, undecorated items- three were splinter tools and one was a split grooved...

The Case for Archiving Legacy Archaeological Collections into tDAR: Digitizing Approaches for Preservation, Dissemination, and Access (2013)

DOCUMENT Full-Text David M. Plaza.

Paper documents are a time proven technology for the preservation and dissemination of information. The advent of computers and the Internet have enhanced some basic concepts for which paper documents have traditionally been used, such as the management of information on an external platform. Some benefits of using computers are the speed and ease of aggregating and disseminating information. This research will review preservation methods on how to ingest a legacy archaeological collection into...

Castle Butte Petroglyph Salvage (1988)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Taylor.

Cation-Ratio Dating and Chronological Variation Within Dinwoody Tradition Rock Art In Northwestern Wyoming (1992)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Julie E. Francis.

Celtic Gold (1986)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter J. Reynolds.

The conventional view of the lron Age is that it was a subsistence society, eking out a basic existence until the arrival of civilising Romans. As Dr Peter Reynolds of the Butser Ancient Farm reveals, nothing could be further from the truth. Britain was the bread basket of Western Europe and a major supplier of grain to the Roman Empire.

Cemochechobee: Archaeology of a Mississippian Ceremonial Center on the Chattahoochee River (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Frank T. Schnell. Vernon J. Knight, Jr.. Gail S. Schnell.

Census Key: Agriculture; 1850 U.S. Census: Agriculture Schedules for Hadley Township, Pike County, Illinois (2006)