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David L. DeJarnette (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John A. Walthall.

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.

Dena Dincauze: The Matriarch of New England Archaeology (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Katie Kirakosian.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Dena Dincauze (1934–2016) made a great impact throughout her archaeological career, not only in New England, but also throughout North America more broadly. As one of the first women to receive her PhD from Harvard University, Dena was also one of the first tenured female...

Department of the Interior Views Relative to the Role of Archeology in Federal Historic Preservation Programs (1978)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jerry L. Rogers.

This presentation by Jerry L. Rogers, at the time the Chief, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation, Heritage Conservation and Recreation Service, was made at the at the first meeting of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Task Force on Archeology,on July 17, 1978, in Washington, DC. Rogers first thanked the committee members and the ACHP for the interest and concern their respective agencies and the ACHP for engaging, as members of the task force in the challenging...

The Development of Archaeology as an Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Discipline 1960–2022 (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anthony Sinclair.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Archaeology as a research activity has changed dramatically over the past 70 years. Where once archaeology might have been seen as a discipline closely related to history and classics, the introduction of new techniques from other disciplines in the sciences, social sciences, and the arts has created a discipline that now thinks of itself and its research...

The Development of North American Archaeology: Essays in the History of Regional Traditions (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James E. Fitting.

Digitizing the Archives of Archaeology Series (2012)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Joseph Tiffany.

The Archives of Archaeology Series is a 29-volume set jointly published by the University of Wisconsin Press and the Society for American Archaeology on opaque microcards, a now obsolete format. The Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center at the University of Wisconsin—La Crosse has digitized the original opaque microcards and made the digital copies available through tDAR. This article describes the digitization of the original records on opaque microcards.

Division On Mound Exploration of the Bureau of (American) Ethnology and the Birth of American Archaeology (1981)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Bruce D. Smith.

Donald Lathrap, the Tropical Forest, and Hemispheric Archaeology (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John Walker. Neil Duncan.

Donald Lathrap was a visionary anthropologist and archaeologist. His contributions always reflected the "big picture": an understanding that all pre-Columbian culture history was intertwined, and that these connections went back through time to origins in the lowland tropics, or the Tropical Forest. He practiced an archaeology that gave equal weight to iconography and religious thought, and rim sherds and energetics. The most significant issues for Lathrap’s version of American Archaeology, is...

The Early Pursuit of Archeology in Maryland (1980)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Tyler Bastian.

Eastern United States (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James B. Griffin.

Edges of Teamwork in Archaeology:Network Approaches to Excavation Histories (2016)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Allison Mickel.

Network science has begun to transform how we view systems of people and objects in the archaeological past, but also provides new insight into how archaeologists collaborate to create the archaeological record. Using two longterm excavations as case studies-- Catalhoyuk in Turkey and the Temple of the Winged Lions in Petra, Jordan-- I demonstrate how network approaches help to visualize and measure teamwork on these archaeological sites. I identify how a person's position in formal site...

Elements of Aechaeology -- Part One: Anthropology (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Elements of Archaeology -- Part II (1959)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

Elizabeth Ann Morris: Dishwasher, Digger, Instructor, Professor (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kelly Pool.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Liz Morris (1932–2012) grew up surrounded by artifacts and archaeologists as the daughter of Earl and Ann Axtell Morris, renowned Southwestern and Mesoamerican archaeologists. She launched her own archaeological career in 1951 when she attended field camp at Pine Lawn, NM, where...

Enhancing Preservation and Access to Archaeological Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stephen Nash. Michele Koons. Melissa Bechhoefer. Krista Barry. Sarah Carlson.

This is an abstract from the "How to Conduct Museum Research and Recent Research Findings in Museum Collections: Posters in Honor of Terry Childs" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science (DMNS) Archaeology Collection represents an important, yet underutilized, cross-section of ancient material culture from around the world. The collection contains more than 72,000 objects, yet its contents are unknown to the vast...

Ethnographer Stewart Culin and "Games of the North American Indians" (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Barbara Voorhies.

This talk appraises the contribution of Stewart Culin, a self-taught ethnographer, to the study of games of indigenous North Americans. His exhaustive survey, published in 1907 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, remains the single comprehensive resource for archaeologists seeking to examine games in the prehistoric record and as such is well exemplified by the presentations in this symposium. Culin’s study, initiated in collaboration with Frank Hamilton Cushing, began in 1891 in connection...

Evaluatory History of Archaeology in the Ouachita Valley of Louisiana (1983)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jon L. Gibson.

Everything Old Is New Again: Considerations for Re-examining the Previously Excavated Material of Hellenistic- and Roman-Period Armenia (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Fagan.

This is an abstract from the "The South Caucasus Region: Crossroads of Societies & Polities. An Assessment of Research Perspectives in Post-Soviet Times" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Throughout the twentieth century, archaeological investigations into the Hellenistic and Roman periods in Armenia sought to understand the ancient kingdom’s place in the broader Mediterranean sphere. The projects often worked to identify cultures and cultural...

Excavations at Wickliffe Mounds (2001)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kit W. Wessler.

Failure of Antiquity Laws In the U.S. Today (1965)

DOCUMENT Citation Only George A. Agogino. Sally K. Sachs.

Fantastic Archaeology Revisited: Still Wild After All These Years (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paula Molloy.

In his 1991 classic, Fantastic Archaeology: The Wild Side of North American Archaeology, Stephen Williams set out to document the ways in which fraud has masqueraded as truth in North American prehistory. More than just a catalog of the improbable and unfalsifiable, Fantastic Archaeology also served as gateway to scientific archaeology for many in the general public. Smitten with a "weird tale," many in the Cambridge, MA area found their way to Prof. Williams’ Harvard University course upon...

Federal Aid to Archaeology in the Southeast, 1933-1942 (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William G. Haag.

The First 101 Years of Alabama Zooarchaeology (1978)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Cailup B. Curren, Jr..

Flights into Yesterday: the Story of Aerial Archaeology (1969)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Leo Deuel.

Florence Hawley’s Enduring Legacy in Southeastern Archaeology and Beyond (2021)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Michaelyn Harle. Laura Smith. Suzanne Fisher. Heather Heart.

This is an abstract from the "Female Firsts: Celebrating Archaeology’s Pioneering Women on the 101st Anniversary of the 19th Amendment " session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. One of the pioneers of dendrochronology, Florence Hawley was employed by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the 1930s during the archaeological excavations that were conducted prior to impoundment of Norris Reservoir. Hawley’s work was one of the earliest attempts at establishing a...