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The Hohokam of central Arizona left behind evidence of a culture markedly different from and more complex than the small communities of O'odham farmers first encountered by Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries A.D. Archaeologists have worked for well over a century to document Hohokam culture history, but much about Pre-Columbian life in the Sonoran Desert remains poorly understood. In particular, the organization of the Hohokam economy in the Phoenix Basin has been an elusive...
Organizational Change and Intellectual Production: The Case Study of Hohokam Archaeology (2006)
Histories of archaeology increasingly focus on the role that the social context of the discipline plays in shaping its intellectual production. Of particular importance in the social context of American archaeology during the last half of the 20th century is the development of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) archaeology. The coalescence of the CRM industry has transformed archaeology—providing new sources of support, mandating new goals, and placing practitioners into newly emergent...
The Origin of the textile industry (2000)
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The Original Green: Regulatory Best Practices for Sustainable Historic Preservation in Montpelier, Vermont (2011)
After years of collaboration, public participation, and strategic planning, the City of Montpelier released their final master plan EnVision Montpelier in the spring of 2010. Like most comprehensive plans, Envision Montpelier articulates clear goals for the City and its residents and outlines specific action steps to help Montepelier realize these desired outcomes over the next twenty years. However, unlike many comprehensive plans today, Montepelier's plan goes several steps further to...
Ovala eldslagningsstenar - vad har de använts til? Ett forsökk att med arkeologiska experiment och analyser utvärdera Eldslagningsstenens function, CD-Uppsats I arkeologi, Vt-2001, Handledare: Roger Engelmark (2001)
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Paleoethnobotany of the Upper Mississippian Component at the Elam Site, a Seasonal Encampment on the Lower Kalamazoo River (1981)
Carbonized floral remains from the Elam site (20AE195) located on the Kalamazoo River in Allegan County, Michigan are identified and analyzed in terms of the local Upper Mississippian subsistence system. The function of Elam as a specialized activity locus in the seasonal round of a late prehistoric people is examined. Interpretations of the botanical data permit hypothetical reconstruction of vegetation and natural ecosystems in the site vicinity as they were prior to Euro-American contact. A...
Paleohydraulics: Techniques for Modeling the Operation and Growth of Prehistoric Canal Systems (1990)
Past studies of the Hohokam irrigation systems have focused on the examination of small segments of individual prehistoric canals. The application of open channel equations to individual cross-sections has provided information on discharge capacity and water velocity at specific points in time and space. This study focuses on the development of techniques and approaches to modeling the operation of complete canals. Extant records of cross-sections of the Prehistoric Hohokam canals are compiled...
The Paleoindian Fluted Point: Dart or Spear Armature? The Identification of Paleoindian Delivery Technology Through the Analysis of Lithic Fracture Velocity (1997)
J. Whittaker: “Velocity-dependent fractures on fluted points reveal fracture rates associated with high-velocity impacts, indicating the use of the spearthrower” No clear evidence of Clovis atlatl, but early dates on hooks from Marmes Rockshelter and Warm Mineral Springs, both 9-10,000 BP, others. Summarizes Clovis and Folsom tool kits and hunting strategies. Problems of classifying points as dart or arrow tips, criticizes Odell’s flake point hypothesis – accidental fractures look similar. ...
Pamunkey housebuilding: an experimental study of late woodland construction technology in the Powhatan Confederacy (1981)
Studies in Anthropology #51. University Microfilms International #81-21269
Patterns of Prehistoric Settlement in the El Morro Valley, New Mexico (1973)
The design of ·the research hypotheses sampling, data collection and analyses, has made it possible to extrapolate for the region in general the transformations of the natural into the cultural landscape. The analysis of the pattern of settlement when evaluated in terms of the distribution of natural resources exposes many innuendos of prehistoric land use. While the utilization of resources is not totally dependent on demographic variables,(i.e., religious, social etc., norms can also program...
The People of Casas Grandes: Cranial and Dental Morphology Through Time (1971)
Casas Grandes offers an unusual opportunity for a physical anthropologist. There is good archaeological control of spatial and temporal distributions of the skeletal populations, and therefore the results of examinations of these skeletons can contribute important data to general studies of micro-evolutionary changes in Homo sapiens. Studies of the genetics of morphological variation and analysis of discontinous traits of skeletons aid in understanding micro-evolutionary change. This project...
Pettit Site Masonry: A Study in Intrasite Social Integration (1980)
The location, description, and interpretation of intrasite social groups is essential to a better understanding of prehistoric Southwest social organization. Through the use of cluster 'analyses of various characteristics of masonry walls at the Pettit and Six Rocks Sites, it was possible to isolate clusters of walls indicative of groups labeled masonry construction task groups. An abutment study used in conjunction with a ceramic analysis made it possible to locate the various construction...
Pfahlbauten in Afrika, Phil. Diss. (1978)
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Pflege- und Entwicklungsplan für eine jungsteinzeitliche Museumslandschaft im Archäologisch-Ökologischen Zentrum Albersdorf (2004)
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Ploughing implements and tillage practices in Denmark from the Viking Period to about 1800. Experimentally substantiated by Grith Lerche (Dissertation) (1994)
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Plural Communities on the Plains: Dismal River People and the Puebloan Diaspora (2015)
This study considers how significant multi-regional processes, such as Spanish colonization of the U.S. Southwest and the later Puebloan diaspora, affected the lives of Native peoples living on the Central Great Plains. Social and economic connections existed between Puebloan people and several Great Plains groups, including those known to archaeologists as the Dismal River Aspect (AD 1600-1750). One significant Dismal River site in western Kansas, the Scott County Pueblo (14SC1), includes the...
The Politics of Commerce: Aztec Pottery Production and Exchange in the Basin of Mexico, A.D. 1200-1650 (2006)
The relationships between market and political institutions have varied in different times and places, but no market system was (or is) devoid of political involvement. The contrasting approaches of the Aztec empire and Spanish colonial regime to the Basin of Mexico market system are instructive about the ways that commercial agents (producers, traders) respond to “top-down” pressures from state elites to steer and direct the commercial economy to their political advantage. The results of this...
Population and History in the Ancient Titicaca Basin (2001)
Matthew Bandy's doctoral dissertation, reporting the results of a settlement survey of 98 square kilometers on the Taraco Peninsula, an area of the Tiwanaku Heartland in the southern Titicaca Basin.
The Potential of Experimental Work Within Archaeology: Maelmin - a Case Study. MA Dissertation (unpub.) (2000)
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The Potter's Mark: Redwares and Stonewares Recovered in Excavation of the Duncan-Bower House in the Hamlet of Enfield Falls, New York (2003)
Undergraduate thesis, Department of Anthropology, Cornell University, 2003. This thesis details the analysis of redware and stoneware pottery excavated from the Duncan-Bower House in Enfield Falls, New York. The thesis provides a history of redware and stoneware production in New York state. It also discusses the Ithaca Pottery, which was founded by Elijah Cornell (son of Ezra Cornell) in 1841. Finally, the document provides a brief economic history of Ithaca and its surrounding environs during...
Pottery ethnoarchaeology among the Tzeital Maya (Ph.D. Dissertation) (1983)
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Prehistoric Agricultural Strategies in West-Central New Mexico (1987)
Environmental fluctuations are frequently cited as a major factor effecting population displacement and cultural development in the American Southwest. Recent research suggests that the interaction of environmental, demographic, and behavioral variables might account for these presumed causal relationships, but behavioral responses to environmental fluctuations remain poorly understood. The environmental factors most likely to have been stressful to agriculturalists such as the prehistoric...
Prehistoric Hunter-Fisher-Gatherers: Implications from Ethnohistory (1975)
Large portions of the world once were occupied by human populations subsisting by hunting, fishing and the gathering of wild plants. Archeologists have long been interested in understanding and explaining the life ways of these prehistoric populations. Human cultural evolution having proceeded as it did, almost no written records exist that report on human populations pursuing such a way of life in deciduous and boreal forestlands exist. This is unfortunate for ethnographic analogy, when...
Prehistoric Settlement and Adaptation in the Ramah Valley, New Mexico (1973)
This paper will attempt to reconstruct the valley-wide systems of subsistence of six pueblos occupying a small valley in northwestern New Mexico around 1300 A.D. As any investigation of this nature must be, it is a hypothetical model, built using data rom a variety of sources, including archaeological excavation, settlement pattern analysis, ethnographic analogy, and the natural limitations of the environment.
Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Sapillo Creek Valley, Gila National Forest, New Mexico (1995)
The Sapillo Valley Survey Project was undertaken in 1993 by Robert Stokes as a M.A. thesis project. The valley was 20 percent sample surveyed using 320 m wide transects that crossed the valley from high landform to high landform, thus ensuring that a variety of landforms would be sampled. The survey resulted in recording 62 sites ranging from Late Archaic/Early Pithouse sites to Late Pithouse villages to Classic Mimbres pueblos and fieldhouses. The sites included many large ceremonial structures...