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Acrobatic Games of Mesoamerica (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gerardo Gutierrez.

In this paper I examine the context and performance of acrobatic games in Mesoamerica using archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic representations of contorsionists, tightrope walkers, equilibrists, dancers on stilts, jugglers, and participants in rotational devices, like the Palo Volador and the Huahua. I underline the importance of acrobatic games in ritual festivities and secular events where improvisational and professional performers staged spectacles and played tricks designed...

Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes (1873)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles C. Jones, Jr..

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Ethnology of the Gros Ventre (1908)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alfred L. Kroeber.

Fort Union Trading Post National Historic Site (32WI17), Material Culture Reports, Part IX: Personal, Domestic, and Architectural Artifacts (1993)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Steven De Vore. William J. Hunt, Jr..

Fort Union served as the major trading establishment for the American Fur Company and its St. Louis descendants (Bernard Pratte and Co. and Pierre Chouteau, Jr., and Co.) on the Upper Missouri River between 1828 and 1865. In 1865, Charles Chouteau sold Fort Union to Hubble, Hawley and Smith, otherwise known as the North Western Fur Company. During its last years of existence, between 1864 and 1866, the traders shared the post's facilities with the U.S. Army, the latter utilizing Fort Union as a...

"He must die unless the whole country shall play crosse:" the Role of Gaming in Great Lakes Indigenous Societies (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ronald Williamson. Martin Cooper.

Lacrosse, Canada’s national sport, originated with the pre-contact racket and ball games of the Iroquoian and Anishinaabeg peoples of northeastern North America. Like many traditional Indigenous games, racket and snow snake events represented much more than sport, involving aspects of physical prowess, warfare, prestige, gambling, dreaming, curing, mourning and shamanism. Gambling, in particular, was an important cultural activity that according to seventeenth century accounts, resulted in...

House Rules: Cultural Transmission and Egyptian Senet Games (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Walter Crist.

Egypt has long been the focus of research on ancient board games, as it provides the longest history and greatest variety of games in the ancient world. Despite this, limitations on archaeological interpretation exist because of the unprovenanced nature of the material, as well as a focus on games from tombs of the nobility and pharaohs. Increasingly, evidence from within Egypt in the form of graffiti games on monuments and on ostraca, as well as Egyptian games found in the Levant where...

The Indians of the Southeastern United States (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John R. Swanton.

Iroquoian Chunkey (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Engelbrecht.

Iroquoians played the hoop and pole game in Historic times, but there are no descriptions of Iroquoians playing chunkey, a variant of hoop and pole that makes use of a rolled stone disk. This has led to a widespread belief that chunkey was not played by Iroquoians. However, a symmetrical stone disk was recovered from the Eaton site, a mid-sixteenth century Erie village. Other researchers report stone disks from the following groups: Neutral (Bill Fox), Erie (Joshua Kwoka), Seneca (Martha...

Lengthier Studies, Fewer Explosions: How Mass Effect Showcases the Future of Archaeology Through Liara T'Son (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Diana L Johnson. Katherine D. Thomas.

As we celebrate 50 years of the Society for Historical Archaeology, we must decide what our future will look like. In Bioware’s Mass Effect series, we can see what an archaeologist will look like in the future. Liara T’soni is a xenoarchaeologist, alien, and one of the main characters of the series. Throughout her journey, your hero helps her with her professional goals, and her profession helps you accomplish the task of helping the universe. This paper will explore her professional life in the...

Material Culture of Samoa: Condensed and Simplified from Dr. P. H. Buck's Samoan Material Culture with Additional Notes

DOCUMENT Citation Only Brother Herman.

The Material Culture of the Crow Indians (1922)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H. Lowie.

Notes on Shoshonean Ethnography (1924)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert H. Lowie.

Notes on the Eastern Cree and Northern Saulteaux (1911)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanson Skinner.

The Potential of Games, Gamefication, and Virtual Reality in Public Archaeology (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Vitória Estrela. Rosicler Silva.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Social-cultural changes and the growth of digital media have lead to new broadcasting methods in archaeology and public archaeology, using computer games, gamefication and virtual reality, as these encourage the user to solve problems and construct social relations that enable personal development and reflections on the past. The purpose of this paper is to...

Rock and Roles: The Chunkey Experience in the Mississippian World (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Thomas Zych.

Games have the ability to change the course of relationships between people, whether through direct engagement as participants or spectators. This paper explores the peripatetic nature of the pre-contact Chunkey game and its role in the initial and sustained spread of Middle Mississippian lifeways from the greater Cahokia region near modern day St. Louis, beginning around A.D. 1050. While Middle Mississippian culture quickly spread throughout the midcontinent at this time, the Chunkey game...

Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians (1913)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Alanson Skinner.

The Social Life of the Blackfoot Indians (1911)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Clark Wissler.

Southeastern Indians (1976)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Charles M. Hudson.

VIII. Games and Toys. in Archaeological and Historical Studies at Ninth and Amherst, Lovelock, Nevada, Edited By Eugene M. Hattori, M.K. Rusco, and D.R. Tuohy (1979)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Pamela Hoffman. Charles Zeier.