Pawnee (Other Keyword)
1-8 (8 Records)
The EKW #1 site (48NA969) was located during a class III survey of the Edness Kimball Wilkins State Park in 1984 (Eckles 1984). The site appeared as a large surface scatter of artifacts and bone, covering over five acres. The site was considered unusual at the time due to the high numbers of prehistoric ceramic artifacts. Late Prehistoric age projectile points, a variety of chipped stone tools, shell beads and animal bone were also recorded during the surface inventory. The density of surface...
Characterizing Eighteenth Century Technological Changes in Pawnee Pottery (2015)
The pottery produced by the Pawnee of the central Great Plains of North America underwent extensive modification in the eighteenth century. Although twentieth-century archaeologists described the "early" and "late" materials, they did not adequately characterize how Pawnee potters modified their craft in terms of vessel morphology or technological practice, nor did they consider pottery function. Thus, we have no satisfactory account of this change. Situated in the context of technological...
Cosmic Order and Change in Pre-columbian Eastern North America (2006)
The authors attempt to understand pan-continental cultural relationships as well as explain how cosmologies developed through time in the eastern Woodlands and Great Plains of North America. To do this, the authors deal with both the overall traditions of entire populations or time periods and specific, local expressions of these overall traditions.
Cosmology in the New World
This project consists of articles written by members of Santa Fe Institute’s cosmology research group. Overall, the goal of this group is to understand the larger relationships between cosmology and society through a theoretically open-ended, comparative examination of the ancient American Southwest, Southeast, and Mesoamerica.
“I Was in the Thick of the Fight:” Counting Coup at 48SW82, Southwestern Wyoming (2011)
Coup counting is a central theme of Plains Biographic art in all media, occurring both as scenes of personal combat and as tallies of unfortunate enemies on whom coup has been counted. While combat scenes are undoubtedly the most common Biographic art depiction (Figure 1), tallies proclaiming a career’s worth of accomplishments resulting from a series of such combat episodes are more frequent than has been portrayed in the Biographic art literature. [...] One such Biographic coup count tally and...
Symbolism and Ritualistic Uses of the Bison Skull Among the Plains Indians of North America (2003)
Archaeological data show acts which may at first appear to involve merely the acquisition of food are, indeed, interwoven with spiritual beliefs and emotions. Bison kill sites have been investigated to gain information regarding hunting strategies and food appropriation. However, some of the sites have yielded additional information taking us beyond the procurement of food, widening our view to include religion, rituals and ceremonialism. The Cooper site (Bement 1999) offers early evidence of...
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - South Dakota (1998)
In September 1997, St. Louis District personnel visited the South Dakota Army National Guard (SDARNG) Headquarters and the South Dakota Archaeological Research Center in Rapid City to research archaeological and historic buildings survey work conducted on National Guard facilities in the state. This document reports the history of cultural investigations on federally owned or federally supported SDARNG facilities, lists archaeological sites and historic buildings recorded within facility...
US Army National Guard Cultural Resources Planning Level Survey - Wyoming (1998)
This document reports the history of cultural resource inventories and historic properties evaluations on WY ARNG facilities, lists archaeological sites a historic buildings recorded within facility boundaries, discusses historic contexts and provides a list of Native American tribes that the Wyoming State Historical Preservation Office (WYSHPO) says may be culturally affiliated to archaeological sites, historic properties or collections. All artifacts collected by the WY ARNG's contractors were...