History Of Archaeology (Other Keyword)

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Promoting an Archaeological Perspective in Repatriation, Consultation, National Monuments, and Data Science (2019)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Francis McManamon.

This is an abstract from the "Attention to Detail: A Pragmatic Career of Research, Mentoring, and Service, Papers in Honor of Keith Kintigh" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Keith Kintigh is having quite a career in archaeology. I use the active voice because, as those of us who work with Keith well know, he’s not finished yet! Throughout his career, Kintigh has promoted the benefits and values of an archaeological perspective steadfastly. Since...

Public Archaeology and Outreach in the Middle Atlantic Region (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Elizabeth Crowell.

The current paper will address the history of public archaeology and outreach in the Middle Atlantic region. It will focus on programs that engage the interested public to participate in archaeology. It will also look at the contributions of local and state jurisdictions and organizations to establish avocational archaeology certification programs.

Publications On Montana Archaeology (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Stuart Conner.

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.

Radiocarbon Dating in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Emily McCuistion.

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. This paper presents the historical and contemporary context of radiocarbon dating in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands (LPC) archeological region of southwest Texas. It entwines discussions of early radiocarbon dating history, evolving dating technology and standards, regional infrastructure development,...

"The Real and Only True Documents": German Naturalists and the Systematic Observation of Antiquities in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Central Veracruz, Mexico (2016)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Werner.

This paper examines a small network of amateur naturalists who were among the first to document archaeological remains in central Veracruz, Mexico. Carl Christian Sartorius (1796-1872), Karl Hermann Berendt (1817 - 1878), and Hugo Finck (ca. 1824 - 1895) shared backgrounds as German expatriates living and working as professional farmers and physicians in Veracruz. Their detailed knowledge of the peoples and landscapes of Veracruz, as well as their frequent trips to the field, enabled their...

Recent Trends in North American Great Plains Archaeological Research (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Kacy Hollenback. Sarah Trabert.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The North American Great Plains physically encompass one third of the contemporary United States and include the international border with Canada. The region has been occupied for at least 16,000 years, with some of the oldest sites in North America. Although the Plains have often been considered peripheral to major developments in adjacent regions, we...

Recovering Lost Excavations: Reconstructing Burials from the University of California Excavations at Guatacondo, Chile (1967–1969) (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christina Torres.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. As part of a Chile-California accord in the 1960s, UCLA faculty, graduate students, and a number of Chilean archaeologists excavated the site of Guatacondo. This relationship ended abruptly following the schism of US/Chile relations pursuant to the election of Salvador Allende. At that point, Dr. Meighan returned to his position at UCLA, bringing with him...

Rediscovering the Andersson Collection: 100 Years Later (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Dayna Thomas. Andrew Womack. Anke Hein. Ole Stilborg. Katherine Brunson.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Johan Gunner Andersson’s collection of artifacts excavated from archaeological sites in northern China has been residing, largely unstudied, in the storage rooms of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, as well as other institutions, for nearly 100 years. During this time a variety of inventory systems, loans, reorganizations, and moves has led to...

Reflections on Career Choices: Alliance Building in Archaeology (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anabel Ford.

This is an abstract from the "Gender in Archaeology over the Last 30+ Years" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. It was the writing and award of NSF Women in Science grant that brought to the fore for me the issues of women in archaeology. Motivated to build on my associations, I sought speakers in archaeology that could represent the world of possibilities. In that search, I was able to meet many women in the field and learn of existing informal...

Revenge of the Nerds, or Why Do Modern Archaeologists Identify with Early Antiquarians? (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Fernando Armstrong-Fumero.

This is an abstract from the "Politics of Heritage Values: How Archaeologists Deal with Place, Social Memories, Identities, and Socioeconomics" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Laws for the preservation of tangible heritage posit historical and cultural significance as a form of intrinsic value that makes objects worth preserving. In the nineteenth century, arguments for this sort of preservation were meant to counteract vernacular practices that...

Review Of: American Archaeology Past and Future: a Celebration of the Society For American Archaeology 1935-1985. Edited By David J. Meltzer, Don D. Fowler, and Jeremy A. Sabloff, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986 (1987)

DOCUMENT Citation Only David J. Rapson.

Review Of: Bone: Ancient Men and Modern Myths. By Lewis R. Binford, Academic Press, N.Y., 1981 (1985)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Mark E. Miller.

Revisiting the Archaeology of Palenque: 25 Years after "The Children of the First Mother" (2015)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Damien Marken.

As the site of many of the epigraphic breakthroughs that fully brought the Classic Maya into realm of history, Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico holds an important place in Maya studies. In the Forest of Kings, Linda Schele and David Freidel brought together one of the first truly comprehensive descriptions of the history of a Classic period royal family. Perhaps more significantly, they put forth a narrative of dynastic legitimization through writing and monumental construction that has endured and...

The rise and fall of culture history (1997)

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Lee. Lyman. Michael J. (Michael John) O'Brien. Robert C. Dunnell.

The River Basin Surveys: Studying Twentieth Century Archaeological Investigations and their Nineteenth Century Subjects (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Lotte E Govaerts.

The 1803 Louisiana Purchase included most of the present-day states of North and South Dakota. I study the US colonization of this area, particularly the Upper Missouri Basin. During the mid-twentieth century the Smithsonian’s River Basin Surveys (RBS) program investigated several nineteenth century historic sites associated with the earliest US presence in the area including fur trade posts, US military and government establishments, and sites associated with US settlement. I study RBS...

Robert L. Schuyler and the Emergence of an Archaeology of Ethnicity: "A topic of interest to both the profession and the public" (2017)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anna Agbe-Davies.

Robert Schuyler has been at the forefront, not only of historical archaeology, but also the archaeology of ethnicity. Although historical archaeology had examined intercultural settings (the very stuff of ethnicity) from its inception, these themes were under-articulated in its early years. One of the earliest steps towards a research agenda was Schuyler’s edited volume Archaeological Perspectives on Ethnicity in America. This paper examines the themes of his contributions to that...

Role of the Amateur In Archaeology. (Reprinted From Museum Notes, W.H. Over Museum, State University of South Dakota) (1962)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Wesley R. Hunt.

Sacred Places and Contested Spaces in Maine: the Long Shadow of Colonialist Science in the Light of Repatriation (2019)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ryan Wheeler. Bonnie Newsom. Chris Sockalexis.

This is an abstract from the "Sins of Our Ancestors (and of Ourselves): Confronting Archaeological Legacies" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Nevin site in Maine has become a contested space as Wabanaki people, seeking to repatriate their ancestors, confront archaeologists who adhere to the antiquated postulates of their predecessors. From 1912-1920, Warren K. Moorehead of Phillips Academy’s archaeology department, focused field work on Maine’s...

Search for the Federal Retreat Route at the Battle of Oak Hills at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield in Southern Missouri (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Steven De Vore. David Watt. Adam Wiewel.

This is an abstract from the "New and Emerging Geophysical and Geospatial Research in the National Parks" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. On August 10, 1861, Federal forces under Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon and Confederate forces under Brigadier General Ben McCulloch and Major General Sterling Price were engaged in a six-hour fight on the rolling hills surrounding Willson’s Creek in Greene and Christian Counties in southern Missouri. Following...

Several Fallacies Handicap Thinking Regarding Pleistocene LCTs: For Example, the Victorian Pet Name “Handaxe” Has Biased Minds with Assumed Behavior for 150 Years (2023)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Joseph Wayman.

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Several persistent fallacies have resulted in truncated and stagnated development of thought regarding lithic large cutting tools. First, the big one: the Victorian era nickname “handaxe” is nearly ubiquitous, hides as a clever and well-known and harmless handle for the whole tool class, but stealthily, and mainly without questioning, presupposes that the...

Shock and Awe: An Insider's View of the "Stanford Phenomenon" (2018)

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Fitzhugh.

In the early 1970s Clifford Evans created a "Paleoindian Program" at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Clovis was well-established in the literature, but its origins and antecedents were mysterious. Dennis Stanford had just received his PhD on Thule culture studies in Barrow, Alaska, but his real love was Paleoindians. After arriving at the SI he picked up the mantle of the Institution’s pioneering Paleoindian researcher, Frank Roberts, and instituted large-scale projects at...

Short History of Montana Archaeology (1961)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Carling Malouf.

A Short History of the Birmingham Anthropological Society (1953)

DOCUMENT Citation Only John F. Deddens.

Six Decades of Research into Ancient Maya Settlement in Belize (2024)

DOCUMENT Citation Only Helen Haines. Anabel Ford. Thomas Guderjan. Sherman Horn.

This is an abstract from the "“The Center and the Edge”: How the Archaeology of Belize Is Foundational for Understanding the Ancient Maya" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Nearly 60 years ago Gordon Willey’s team published "Prehistoric Maya Settlements in the Belize Valley," initiating the study of ancient Maya communities with a focus at Barton Ramie in Belize. The lead continues to this day with the first archaeological application of lidar by the...

The Southeastern United States (1973)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James B. Stoltman.