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Los Morteros: Early Monumentality And Environmental Change In The Lower Chao Valley, Northern Peruvian Coast, Ana Cecilia Mauricio Llonto
Los Morteros: Early Monumentality And Environmental Change In The Lower Chao Valley, Northern Peruvian Coast, Ana Cecilia Mauricio Llonto
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This doctoral dissertation presents the results of archaeological and geoarchaeological studies carried out at the site of Los Morteros and the Archaeological Complex of Pampa de las Salinas, lower Chao Valley, North Coast of Peru, between September 2012 and July 2014. This research focuses on the study of the mound-shaped site of Los Morteros and the environmental contexts in which this site developed. Previous excavations at the site considered Los Morteros as a “stabilized dune” whose top was used as cemetery for pre-pottery people around cal. 5000 B.P (Cardenas 1995, 1999). However, geo-radar explorations of the mound in 2006 and …
Culturefest 2015, University Of Maine Office Of International Programs
Culturefest 2015, University Of Maine Office Of International Programs
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
Culturefest is an annual event hosted by the International Student Association and the Office of International Programs. US students from multicultural backgrounds take part and celebrate their families' heritage. The best part of Culturefest is the food court which will offer a variety of food from around the globe.
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
The Projekti Arkeologjike I Shkodres (Pash): Combining Paleoenvironmental And Archaeological Data From A Balkan Lacustrine Landscape, The University Of Maine Anthropology Department
Cultural Affairs Distinguished Lecture Series
The Projekti Arkeolojike i Shkodres (PASH) conducted five years of interdiciplinary, diachronic field research (2010-2014) in the Northern Albanian region of Shkoder, targeting the plain and hills that ring Shkodra Lake. The project was designed to address changes in landscape, settlement, and land use, beginning in prehistory. Intensive archaeological survey of 16 square kilometers identified 15 sites of all periods, many of them multicomponent, and 175 prehistoric burial mounds. Four mounds and three sites were targeted for test excavations, allowing the beginnings of a regional absolute chronology. A program of geological coring is helping to clarify the varying size of …
Maine Folklife, Vol. 20, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife, Vol. 20, Iss. 2, Maine Folklife Center
Maine Folklife Center Newsletter
The Penobscot Dictionary Project is well underway. It is a project that brings together Native culture, linguistics and digital humanities. On the one hand, we are engaged in on-going discussions with members of the Penobscot Language committee on Indian Island to make sure that our work helps their work in teaching and sustaining their language program. On the other hand, we are building a digital file with all of the linguistic information that we can incorporate into the dictonary. Working with a part of the dictionary that was digitally entered onto 5 1/4 inch floppy disks in the 1980s, the …
Fortification Of The International Defense Of Cultural Property Trapped In Areas Of Armed Conflict, Marissa E. Higgins
Fortification Of The International Defense Of Cultural Property Trapped In Areas Of Armed Conflict, Marissa E. Higgins
Honors College
This thesis examines the state of cultural-property protection during armed conflict. Following a description of the ethical impositions and international background of the concept, theoretical expectations of cultural-property protection in present-day armed conflicts are compiled through the comparison of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the 1972 UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. These two conventions were chosen because of their relevance to the actual application of cultural-property protection during armed conflict, which was established through research into the effects the recent …
A Descriptive Study Of Forensic Implications Of Raccoon Scavenging In Maine, Ashley Hannigan
A Descriptive Study Of Forensic Implications Of Raccoon Scavenging In Maine, Ashley Hannigan
Honors College
This thesis is a case study of winter raccoon scavenging in Maine. The data used for my analysis came from a National Institute of Justice funded project on Regional Taphonomy done by Marcella Sorg from 2007 to 2012 (Sorg, 2013). I analyzed the photographic and videographic data from one pig cadaver site and identified raccoon scavenging “events.” This term is used to describe any period of time that one or more raccoons are scavenging. These events were then analyzed to investigate possible associations between scavenging behaviors and environmental variables, although none were positively identified. I adapted a method of describing …
Let’S Act Now, While Things Are Good! Social Change And The Need For Policy Action In Maine’S Lobster Industry, Samuel Belknap
Let’S Act Now, While Things Are Good! Social Change And The Need For Policy Action In Maine’S Lobster Industry, Samuel Belknap
The Cohen Journal
The motivation behind this letter was a remark by Maine Department of Marine Resources Lobster Biologist, Carl Wilson. While attending the Rockland Maine based Island Institute’s annual Climate Round Table event, where fishermen, scientists, and others gather to talk about the past year in the Gulf of Maine, Wilson said, in reference to the lobster industry, “When the resource changes, everything changes.” This comment, poetic in its simplicity, got me to start thinking. I began retracing the history of Maine’s lobster industry to find examples of Wilson’s statement, and I was surprised by how many instances supported this comment. What …
Mobility In The Mangroves: Catch Rates, Daily Decisions, And Dynamics Of Artisanal Fishing In A Coastal Commons, Christine M. Beitl
Mobility In The Mangroves: Catch Rates, Daily Decisions, And Dynamics Of Artisanal Fishing In A Coastal Commons, Christine M. Beitl
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
This paper integrates institutional theories of the commons with insights from geography and human behavioral ecology to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of artisanal fishing in Ecuador’s coastal mangrove swamps. The focus is on the cockle fishery commons characterized by a mixture of formal institutional arrangements and an informal division of fishing space that partially influences fisher decisions about where and when to fish. Individual decisions are further explained to a certain degree by the patch choice model since fishers often move on to new grounds when their catch rates fall below average. These optimizing strategies requiring rotation within …
Letter From Ruth Benedict, American Folk-Lore Society, 1939, Ruth Benedict
Letter From Ruth Benedict, American Folk-Lore Society, 1939, Ruth Benedict
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers
Correspondence from Ruth Benedict to Fannie Hardy Eckstorm concerning her publications, which were digitized from Box 1 folder 9, of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers. Documents from this folder that did not pertain to Native Americans in Maine were not scanned and are not included in this file.
Correspondence From William Brooks Cabot, 1930-1946, William B. Cabot
Correspondence From William Brooks Cabot, 1930-1946, William B. Cabot
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers
Correspondence from William Cabot concerning Indian languages, culture, and history, which were digitized from Box 1, Folder 17, of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers. Documents that did not pertain to Native Americans in Maine were not digitized and were not included in this file.
Correspondence With Dr. Charles E. Banks, 1915-1931, Charles E. Banks, Fannie H. Eckstorm
Correspondence With Dr. Charles E. Banks, 1915-1931, Charles E. Banks, Fannie H. Eckstorm
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers
Correspondence between Charles E. Banks and Fannie Hardy Eckstorm concerning Indian vocabulary and place names in Maine, which were digitized from Box 1 folder 5, of the Fannie Hardy Eckstorm Papers. Documents from this folder that did not pertain to Native Americans in Maine were not scanned and are not included in this file.
2015 Film Series: Human Dimensions Of Climate Change, Cindy Isenhour, Jennifer Bonnet
2015 Film Series: Human Dimensions Of Climate Change, Cindy Isenhour, Jennifer Bonnet
Anthropology Faculty Scholarship
In the spring of 2015, Cindy Isenhour and Jen Bonnet coordinated the second annual Human Dimensions of Climate Change film series, sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Climate Change Institute, and Fogler Library. Each week for three weeks a different film was shown, followed by discussion with campus scholars. A library exhibit accompanied the series and highlighted a wide range of resources related to the topic, http://libguides.library.umaine.edu/hdcc.
The Digital Humanities Imperative: An Archival Response, Pauleena Macdougall, Katrina Wynn
The Digital Humanities Imperative: An Archival Response, Pauleena Macdougall, Katrina Wynn
Maine Policy Review
The authors offer a look at how as archivists at the Maine Folklife Center they are using new digital tools to both preserve historical resources and improve public access to them.