2016 asor annual meeting – paper abstracts
... structure. We defined a fundamental entity: the interpretation event. Three higher-level entities (or basic types of interpretive units) derive from it: spatial (locational) units, finds ...
... structure. We defined a fundamental entity: the interpretation event. Three higher-level entities (or basic types of interpretive units) derive from it: spatial (locational) units, finds ...
culture contact studies - redefining the relationship
... novations in food, architectural forms, kitchen tools, and other material culture (see Deagan 1990a:240, 1990b:307-308; Crowell 1994:160-181), while native women, related kinspeople, and their offspring were exposed to various manifestations of European "culture," as well as a diverse range of cultu ...
... novations in food, architectural forms, kitchen tools, and other material culture (see Deagan 1990a:240, 1990b:307-308; Crowell 1994:160-181), while native women, related kinspeople, and their offspring were exposed to various manifestations of European "culture," as well as a diverse range of cultu ...
Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Archaeology on the Sea-bed
... and archaeological significance of wrecks on the seabed has been recognised for several decades and is well integrated into the licensing process for sea-bed development. In contrast, although it has been recognised since the early 20th century that archaeological remains of prehistoric human habita ...
... and archaeological significance of wrecks on the seabed has been recognised for several decades and is well integrated into the licensing process for sea-bed development. In contrast, although it has been recognised since the early 20th century that archaeological remains of prehistoric human habita ...
CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND THE INDIGENOUS LANDSCAPE
... the study area, and there is every reason to assume that they will be found south of the border as more archaeological reconnaissance and excavation work is carried out. As the climate became more arid and the Pleistocene mammals retreated to the north or became extinct, native peoples adapted to th ...
... the study area, and there is every reason to assume that they will be found south of the border as more archaeological reconnaissance and excavation work is carried out. As the climate became more arid and the Pleistocene mammals retreated to the north or became extinct, native peoples adapted to th ...
ANTH - UNB
... This course offers an overview of the hands-on components of archaeology by providing students with an introduction to experimental archaeology, human material culture, and the archaeological record, as well as basic archaeological recovery methods. These are presented in two broad components, one f ...
... This course offers an overview of the hands-on components of archaeology by providing students with an introduction to experimental archaeology, human material culture, and the archaeological record, as well as basic archaeological recovery methods. These are presented in two broad components, one f ...
ARTIFACTS AS DOMESTICATED KINDS OF PRACTICES Sergio F
... simplistic empiricism that considers artifacts in and for, and only in terms of, themselves. ...
... simplistic empiricism that considers artifacts in and for, and only in terms of, themselves. ...
Archaeometry and materiality: materials
... The first thing to point out is that the physical and mechanical properties of material culture have always been of prime concern to archaeometry and science-based archaeology. In fact, the initial development of an archaeometric or materials-based approach in archaeology involved the importation of ...
... The first thing to point out is that the physical and mechanical properties of material culture have always been of prime concern to archaeometry and science-based archaeology. In fact, the initial development of an archaeometric or materials-based approach in archaeology involved the importation of ...
TAG program final
... Renata Senna Garraffoni (Paraná Federal University/Brazil) Literary sources and some Roman laws support a powerful image, which portrayed the common people as an idle mob that lived for bread and circus. As Archaeology can provide different evidence for interpreting the ancient past, there was a gro ...
... Renata Senna Garraffoni (Paraná Federal University/Brazil) Literary sources and some Roman laws support a powerful image, which portrayed the common people as an idle mob that lived for bread and circus. As Archaeology can provide different evidence for interpreting the ancient past, there was a gro ...
Anth 551: Strategies in Archaeology
... much of North American archaeology) and Marxist, feminist, postprocessual, postcolonial, and collaborative approaches. In addition to addressing the concepts that these various perspectives bring to bear on research design, we will be concerned with critically evaluating how researchers’ perceptions ...
... much of North American archaeology) and Marxist, feminist, postprocessual, postcolonial, and collaborative approaches. In addition to addressing the concepts that these various perspectives bring to bear on research design, we will be concerned with critically evaluating how researchers’ perceptions ...
Word document - CLAS Users
... (2 pages, double-spaced. Proper citation of work required): This week we move from issues of artifacts and resulting typologies, which directly determine site and regional chronologies, to analyses that apply these chronologies -- of how and where people lived in the past. How do the authors this we ...
... (2 pages, double-spaced. Proper citation of work required): This week we move from issues of artifacts and resulting typologies, which directly determine site and regional chronologies, to analyses that apply these chronologies -- of how and where people lived in the past. How do the authors this we ...
- iBrarian
... separate elevations less than 8 m above local stream level to delineate bottomlands. Comparing the results to available SSURGO (2004) soils data and early aerial photographs, this method appears to work quite well for delineating bottomlands throughout the study area. One potential problem with this ...
... separate elevations less than 8 m above local stream level to delineate bottomlands. Comparing the results to available SSURGO (2004) soils data and early aerial photographs, this method appears to work quite well for delineating bottomlands throughout the study area. One potential problem with this ...
ByrneOMahonyARAN - ARAN Home
... on reading The Irish Countryman, Dorothea Lange visited Clare producing a photo essay based on scenes from the text for LIFE magazine (Lange 1955). The history and publications of the Harvard-Irish Survey have been debated in Irish anthropology and sociology (Gibbon 1973; Peace 1989: Wilson 1984, W ...
... on reading The Irish Countryman, Dorothea Lange visited Clare producing a photo essay based on scenes from the text for LIFE magazine (Lange 1955). The history and publications of the Harvard-Irish Survey have been debated in Irish anthropology and sociology (Gibbon 1973; Peace 1989: Wilson 1984, W ...
Cultural Landscape - Society for California Archaeology
... country-Side into agricultural communities. For the Kupa-ngakitum, the valley and surrounding mountains represented their ancestral home. From an archaeological bias we need to ask, "how are these two questions observable in the archaeological record?" The relationship of perception, the environment ...
... country-Side into agricultural communities. For the Kupa-ngakitum, the valley and surrounding mountains represented their ancestral home. From an archaeological bias we need to ask, "how are these two questions observable in the archaeological record?" The relationship of perception, the environment ...
The Impact of the River Basin Surveys Program in Historical
... disenfranchised peoples, as was being done with the cultural-historical approach in prehistory at the time, and it did nothing to develop a useful resource base for broad based comparative studies, such as were becoming important during the latter years of this period elsewhere in the country. Sites ...
... disenfranchised peoples, as was being done with the cultural-historical approach in prehistory at the time, and it did nothing to develop a useful resource base for broad based comparative studies, such as were becoming important during the latter years of this period elsewhere in the country. Sites ...
Ethnicity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodological
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
... role in the definition of races, but language, psychology, and cultural and intellectual ability were also seen as important. Racial determinism was widespread and, to greater or lesser degrees, racial theories posited a direct relationship between biological and cultural capabilities (Stepan 1982). ...
O verview Methods and Ethics in Physical - McGraw
... • Cultural resource management (CRM), or contract archaeology, is concerned with excavating sites that are threatened by modern development. • Most other sites are selected for excavation because they are well suited to address a series of specific research questions. ...
... • Cultural resource management (CRM), or contract archaeology, is concerned with excavating sites that are threatened by modern development. • Most other sites are selected for excavation because they are well suited to address a series of specific research questions. ...
Individual Abstracts, I through L
... have demonstrated that, although they exhibit a unique type of settlement pattern, they do represent large, sophisticated, and undoubtedly “urban” state formations. The unique urban footprint of these tropical states – in which settlement units of varying size and complexity are scattered across the ...
... have demonstrated that, although they exhibit a unique type of settlement pattern, they do represent large, sophisticated, and undoubtedly “urban” state formations. The unique urban footprint of these tropical states – in which settlement units of varying size and complexity are scattered across the ...
Department of Anthropology. Graduate Student Comprehensive
... Anderson, Benedict. 1991.Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso. Barth, Fredrik.1968 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries:The Social Organization of Cultural Difference. Bergen. Bateson, Gregory. 1958. Naven:A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture ...
... Anderson, Benedict. 1991.Imagined Communities:Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism. Verso. Barth, Fredrik.1968 Ethnic Groups and Boundaries:The Social Organization of Cultural Difference. Bergen. Bateson, Gregory. 1958. Naven:A survey of the problems suggested by a composite picture ...
Anthropology and Archaeology
... When Guthe returned, he had an administrative design for a four-field museum of anthropology with each anthropologically-trained curator controlling all four sub-disciplines for his particular geographic region. This quickly proved difficult and he soon wanted curators in each of three sub-fields of ...
... When Guthe returned, he had an administrative design for a four-field museum of anthropology with each anthropologically-trained curator controlling all four sub-disciplines for his particular geographic region. This quickly proved difficult and he soon wanted curators in each of three sub-fields of ...
Principles of Archaeology
... the concepts underlying it, and to their changes over time. It can, but does not always, involve digging: the more accurate focus is on examining the means which the material world can be coaxed to answer a wide variety of questions, thoughtfully posed, about the shifting circumstances of human exis ...
... the concepts underlying it, and to their changes over time. It can, but does not always, involve digging: the more accurate focus is on examining the means which the material world can be coaxed to answer a wide variety of questions, thoughtfully posed, about the shifting circumstances of human exis ...
Why the history of archaeology is essential to theoretical archaeology
... the history of archaeological theory or ‘thought’ as the late Bruce Trigger (1987, 2006) would have it, the discourse of theoretical archaeology has a far less natural, and less productive, relationship with the history of archaeology. My case in this paper is that theoretical archaeology needs to b ...
... the history of archaeological theory or ‘thought’ as the late Bruce Trigger (1987, 2006) would have it, the discourse of theoretical archaeology has a far less natural, and less productive, relationship with the history of archaeology. My case in this paper is that theoretical archaeology needs to b ...
The life of an artifact in an interpretive archaeology
... but as being central to the working of society. One particular and much debated line was to conceive material culture, through an analogy with text, as a semiotic and communicative medium (cf also Hodder 1986). It is in this context that I take up the proposition that a radical opposition of people ...
... but as being central to the working of society. One particular and much debated line was to conceive material culture, through an analogy with text, as a semiotic and communicative medium (cf also Hodder 1986). It is in this context that I take up the proposition that a radical opposition of people ...
Volume 35 #4
... Southeast Asia are widespread throughout the archaeological record and suggest dynamic and sophisticated cultures from prehistory to the historic period. Analysis of archaeological ceramics is an integral facet of archaeological research, providing insight into both the social and economic compositi ...
... Southeast Asia are widespread throughout the archaeological record and suggest dynamic and sophisticated cultures from prehistory to the historic period. Analysis of archaeological ceramics is an integral facet of archaeological research, providing insight into both the social and economic compositi ...
GPR Mapping to test Anthropological Hypotheses
... Archaeologists have employed ground-penetrating radar for discovery and mapping of buried archaeological sites for many decades, often with good success [1]. Its utility to not only find, but project information from limited test excavations into a large area in three-dimensions is undisputed, and c ...
... Archaeologists have employed ground-penetrating radar for discovery and mapping of buried archaeological sites for many decades, often with good success [1]. Its utility to not only find, but project information from limited test excavations into a large area in three-dimensions is undisputed, and c ...