Bear (Other Keyword)
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Artifact Inventory for Phase I and Phase II Investigations at Old Baltimore, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, US.
Bear (1981)
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The Bear in the Footprint: Using Ethnography to Interpret Archaeological Evidence of Bear Hunting and Bear Veneration in the Northern Rockies (2017)
Archaeological evidence of prehistoric bear hunting and bear veneration in the northern Rocky Mountains and northwestern Plains is presented. Ethnographic documents and the writings of trappers, traders, and explorers are assessed in order to establish an interpretative framework to help decipher archaeological contexts in the region that include bear remains and rock art depicting bears. Examining prehistoric archaeological contexts in Montana and Wyoming within this framework suggests evidence...
Black Bear Use through Time in the Southern Appalachians (2017)
Historic accounts of Fort San Juan, a Spanish garrison built near the native village of Joara in the late 1560s in western North Carolina, inform us that chiefs from neighboring towns brought "meat and maize" to the soldiers on various occasions. Based on the high proportion of bear in the fort faunal assemblage, it seems likely that the foods gifted to the Spaniards included bear meat. A recent zooarchaeological study suggests that native peoples provisioned the soldiers with some prime bear...
Brother Bear: The Role of Ursus americanus in Cherokee Society (2017)
Archaeological sites in the Southeastern United States often contain remains of the black bear (Ursus americanus), which, upon excavation, are placed into one of two general categories for further analysis: food or modified. The confines of these categories precondition interpretations of the bear remains, and limit possible crucial understanding of the roles of bears in the social life of the people who interacted with them. While the category of "food" can be further divided into quotidian or...
Faunal Materials, Old Baltimore, Aberdeen Proving Ground (2003)
Faunal Materials from the Old Baltimore Site, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, US.
Phase I/II Investigations at Site 18HA030, Old Baltimore, Aberdeen Proving Ground (2002.018)
This project contains photographs of images of artifacts, architecture and an artifact inventory from Phase I/II investigations at Site 18HA030, Old Baltimore, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland US. Artifact images are organised onto resource pages by the following categories: ceramics, faunal, metals, pipes, prehistoric and miscellaneous.
Report and Analysis of Cultural Resource Management Survey in the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming (1980)
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.