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... the palace of their paramount chief, forcibly removed his sandals, and placed his bare feet on the ground. This act of destoolment brought to a close his nineteen-year reign, which had been the focus of a chieftaincy dispute that began before the death of the previous paramount chief in . This w ...
... the palace of their paramount chief, forcibly removed his sandals, and placed his bare feet on the ground. This act of destoolment brought to a close his nineteen-year reign, which had been the focus of a chieftaincy dispute that began before the death of the previous paramount chief in . This w ...
Recent Issues in the Archaeology of the Mimbres Region of the
... review of the culture history of the region and the general nature of the archaeological research that has been done. The bulk of the paper comprises five sections; four organized around recent issues in archaeological research, and one focused on a particular class of material culture, pottery. Pot ...
... review of the culture history of the region and the general nature of the archaeological research that has been done. The bulk of the paper comprises five sections; four organized around recent issues in archaeological research, and one focused on a particular class of material culture, pottery. Pot ...
Archeological and Bioarcheological Resources of the
... and because much of the archeology conducted today is by state-bound archeologists, successful interpretation of prehistoric lifeways requires a larger panorama. The concept of human adaptation types has been adopted as a means by which the similarities and differences among and between ...
... and because much of the archeology conducted today is by state-bound archeologists, successful interpretation of prehistoric lifeways requires a larger panorama. The concept of human adaptation types has been adopted as a means by which the similarities and differences among and between ...
Society for American Archaeology US BOR Contributions to the
... plan for a set of informational web pages—not to create content, but rather to create a link hierarchy which would be able to easily incorporate new content over time. (A forthcoming, second part of the development process would involve collating and organizing and posting any extant materials viabl ...
... plan for a set of informational web pages—not to create content, but rather to create a link hierarchy which would be able to easily incorporate new content over time. (A forthcoming, second part of the development process would involve collating and organizing and posting any extant materials viabl ...
i LIFE IN AN INDUSTRIAL VILLAGE: THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF
... especially because the lime industry had significant influence on its residents during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on the economic background of the city of Santa Cruz. This study attempts to fill a gap in the historical record concerning ordinary workers. The large majorit ...
... especially because the lime industry had significant influence on its residents during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and on the economic background of the city of Santa Cruz. This study attempts to fill a gap in the historical record concerning ordinary workers. The large majorit ...
Navajo Ethnobotany - Diné Nanise and Ethnobotanical Analysis of
... contradictory properties, e.g. one could be a poison and another a food. There can be frustrating ambiguities in the archaeological record. It is helpful to know about both the taxa recovered from a site and all of the taxa known to be used on other sites in the same cultural landscape. If we do not ...
... contradictory properties, e.g. one could be a poison and another a food. There can be frustrating ambiguities in the archaeological record. It is helpful to know about both the taxa recovered from a site and all of the taxa known to be used on other sites in the same cultural landscape. If we do not ...
THE BORDES-BINFORD DEBATE: TRANSATLANTIC
... specialists and non-specialists alike; one could cast the story in so many ways. There are nationalistic overtones in the upstart American versus the courtly Frenchman, a May-December (maybe November) element with a Young Turk battling a tested old(er) warrior, and a sprinkling of the inevitability ...
... specialists and non-specialists alike; one could cast the story in so many ways. There are nationalistic overtones in the upstart American versus the courtly Frenchman, a May-December (maybe November) element with a Young Turk battling a tested old(er) warrior, and a sprinkling of the inevitability ...
Journal of Taphonomy
... archaeologist-led move widening taphonomy’s content and enriching its concept in the past 70 years diminishes the call of Lyman to return to an strictly circumscribed understanding of the discipline. We argue that one of the definitions of taphonomy as originally posited by Efremov (1940) (the trans ...
... archaeologist-led move widening taphonomy’s content and enriching its concept in the past 70 years diminishes the call of Lyman to return to an strictly circumscribed understanding of the discipline. We argue that one of the definitions of taphonomy as originally posited by Efremov (1940) (the trans ...
PIDBA_General_Biblio_8.7.09 - The Paleoindian Database of
... 1990 The Paleoindian Occupation of Georgia. Georgia Archaeological Operating Plans 1-6, University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology Series Report. Anderson, D. G., L. D. O'Steen and R. J. Ledbetter 1986 Georgia Paleoindian Recordation Project: Towards a Descriptive Inventory of Georgia Paleoindi ...
... 1990 The Paleoindian Occupation of Georgia. Georgia Archaeological Operating Plans 1-6, University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology Series Report. Anderson, D. G., L. D. O'Steen and R. J. Ledbetter 1986 Georgia Paleoindian Recordation Project: Towards a Descriptive Inventory of Georgia Paleoindi ...
Human Remains Guidance A4
... understanding of past lives. However, dealing with human remains from archaeological sites presents challenges of a quite different nature from those which attend work on other types of evidence. Human remains are a focus of religious beliefs and notions of decency and respect for the dead, as well ...
... understanding of past lives. However, dealing with human remains from archaeological sites presents challenges of a quite different nature from those which attend work on other types of evidence. Human remains are a focus of religious beliefs and notions of decency and respect for the dead, as well ...
POSTCOLONIAL THEORY IN ANTHROPOLOGY AND
... This course is exploratory, perhaps best captured by the analogy that serious scholars are often viewed as bookworms. While bookworms eat books, consuming the physical properties of knowledge communication, we are bookworms of a different sort, eating knowledge without knowing in advance just exactl ...
... This course is exploratory, perhaps best captured by the analogy that serious scholars are often viewed as bookworms. While bookworms eat books, consuming the physical properties of knowledge communication, we are bookworms of a different sort, eating knowledge without knowing in advance just exactl ...
Archaeology Is Anthropology - CLAS Users
... our constructions of the past (e.g., Knapp 1996). Significantly, rather than being satisfied with documenting sequences of events, archaeologists (and not just those trained within anthropology) have tried to create new ways to think about how different aspects of social existence would have affecte ...
... our constructions of the past (e.g., Knapp 1996). Significantly, rather than being satisfied with documenting sequences of events, archaeologists (and not just those trained within anthropology) have tried to create new ways to think about how different aspects of social existence would have affecte ...
People with history: An update on historical
... gaps in documented societies. There is no question that this function continues to be important. But archaeologists need not be content with providing details or "facts" that documentary historians may or may not find useful. Archaeology is not "handmaiden to history," as Ivor Norl Hume (1964) insis ...
... gaps in documented societies. There is no question that this function continues to be important. But archaeologists need not be content with providing details or "facts" that documentary historians may or may not find useful. Archaeology is not "handmaiden to history," as Ivor Norl Hume (1964) insis ...
curriculum vitae - Anthropology, UC Berkeley
... 1998/1999 Chair: Obsidian Procurement and Distribution at Pecos Pueblo, Northern New Mexico. Devin White, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 1998/1999 Chair: Collections Ethics of the Kumeyaay Collection of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Rebecca Graf, Departme ...
... 1998/1999 Chair: Obsidian Procurement and Distribution at Pecos Pueblo, Northern New Mexico. Devin White, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley. 1998/1999 Chair: Collections Ethics of the Kumeyaay Collection of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Rebecca Graf, Departme ...
Understanding Historic Buildings
... of recording required. Such statements may include some elements of a building record, but again a clear distinction must be drawn (in the language of the report, or in its structure) between value-based judgements and more objective evidence. In both cases it should be emphasised that an assessment ...
... of recording required. Such statements may include some elements of a building record, but again a clear distinction must be drawn (in the language of the report, or in its structure) between value-based judgements and more objective evidence. In both cases it should be emphasised that an assessment ...
An Archaeology of Landscapes: Perspectives and
... As Fisher and Thurston (1999b, p. 631) observe, some of the most highly productive landscape research draws from complementary theoretical perspectives. Landscape approaches allow researchers to accommodate, if not integrate, different theoretical perspectives even while these constructs exist in te ...
... As Fisher and Thurston (1999b, p. 631) observe, some of the most highly productive landscape research draws from complementary theoretical perspectives. Landscape approaches allow researchers to accommodate, if not integrate, different theoretical perspectives even while these constructs exist in te ...
(2006). "What is Ethical in Archaeology? An Analysis of Ethical
... Analysis of Ethics Tthe field of moral philosophy is typically divided into three domains—metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics (see table 1).2 This essay is a metaethical analysis of archaeological ethics. It is neither a study in applied ethics, which would focus on specific ethical iss ...
... Analysis of Ethics Tthe field of moral philosophy is typically divided into three domains—metaethics, normative ethics and applied ethics (see table 1).2 This essay is a metaethical analysis of archaeological ethics. It is neither a study in applied ethics, which would focus on specific ethical iss ...
Number 4, September - Society for American Archaeology
... kind of archaeology many of us would not have thought to do, that of a 1991 Ford Van. Searcy and Ure report on how a field-worthy computer holds up. Paul Minnis highlights a prominent role for archaeology in the study of crop diversity, both extant and extinct, something that struck me as even more ...
... kind of archaeology many of us would not have thought to do, that of a 1991 Ford Van. Searcy and Ure report on how a field-worthy computer holds up. Paul Minnis highlights a prominent role for archaeology in the study of crop diversity, both extant and extinct, something that struck me as even more ...
Teaching Archaeology as Anthropology. - CLAS Users
... in order to better prepare students for the realities of aranthropology) approach to the training of archaeolochaeology as it is practiced. The SAA Task Force on gists has been questioned, particularly for archaeoloCurriculum is following up on this blueprint, planning gists heading for nonacademic ...
... in order to better prepare students for the realities of aranthropology) approach to the training of archaeolochaeology as it is practiced. The SAA Task Force on gists has been questioned, particularly for archaeoloCurriculum is following up on this blueprint, planning gists heading for nonacademic ...
Consuming and communicating identities
... varied social environment that this brings, not least manifested during lunch and coffee breaks. The numerous colleagues at the department of Archaeology and Classical Studies are far too many to name here, but some inevitably deserve a special mentioning. Firstly, Ylva Sjöstrand, my foremost partne ...
... varied social environment that this brings, not least manifested during lunch and coffee breaks. The numerous colleagues at the department of Archaeology and Classical Studies are far too many to name here, but some inevitably deserve a special mentioning. Firstly, Ylva Sjöstrand, my foremost partne ...
Opening Archaeology Repatriation`s Impact on Contemporary
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
... only recently have been more widely recognized. The discipline’s role in the past and the institutions and social contexts within which its earlier practices were forged and continued to develop are not easily separated from the ethical, practical, or theoretical constructs of contemporary research. ...
Post-Processual Archaeology and After
... Theterm“post-processual”tellsyouonlythatthis archaeology came after processual. Implied is a coherent program, approach, method, body of theory. But post-processual archaeology cannot be said to have any of these. Processual archaeology is still a dominant orthodoxy in the largest community of archa ...
... Theterm“post-processual”tellsyouonlythatthis archaeology came after processual. Implied is a coherent program, approach, method, body of theory. But post-processual archaeology cannot be said to have any of these. Processual archaeology is still a dominant orthodoxy in the largest community of archa ...
Session Abstracts - Society for American Archaeology
... of archaeology. Archaeologists are aware of variation in archaeological investigations in patterns that are seen on local and national scales, yet we have only a partial understanding of how and why these patterns evolved through time. This situation has obscured the impact of such variability on ou ...
... of archaeology. Archaeologists are aware of variation in archaeological investigations in patterns that are seen on local and national scales, yet we have only a partial understanding of how and why these patterns evolved through time. This situation has obscured the impact of such variability on ou ...
Number 3, May - Society for American Archaeology
... mind but not using archaeological methods (archaeologists can do their field investigations quite well enough for themselves). An interesting question is whether any younger researchers will arise who are interdisciplinary geoarchaeologists themselves, with little need in many instances to call on t ...
... mind but not using archaeological methods (archaeologists can do their field investigations quite well enough for themselves). An interesting question is whether any younger researchers will arise who are interdisciplinary geoarchaeologists themselves, with little need in many instances to call on t ...
- iBrarian
... modeled as likely to contain mounds. The Monte Carlo samples serve as a statistical background against which to test the size of mound viewsheds, and significance is determined by simply ranking the realized sample (mound viewshed) against the 99 generated samples (Kvamme 1996). A viewshed larger th ...
... modeled as likely to contain mounds. The Monte Carlo samples serve as a statistical background against which to test the size of mound viewsheds, and significance is determined by simply ranking the realized sample (mound viewshed) against the 99 generated samples (Kvamme 1996). A viewshed larger th ...
Excavation (archaeology)
In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains. An excavation site or ""dig"" is a site being studied. Such a site excavation concerns itself with a specific archaeological site or a connected series of sites, and may be conducted over as little as several weeks to over a number of years.