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Long-Term Solar Modulation Of Radiocarbon Production, Steven C. Haack, Thomas E. Mcginnis

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The variation of atmospheric radiocarbon concentration over the past 8,000 years is generally well explained in terms of the modulation of radiocarbon production by the Earth's magnetic field. The reconstruction of this variation as based upon the known fluctuation of the Earth's field, however, is slightly out of phase with and of a smaller amplitude than the empirically derived curve.

Correlations between solar magnetic activity and climatic trends are well established over a period of a few hundred years. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that the solar magnetic field modulates the production of radiocarbon in the same manner as does …

A System Model Of Shawnee Indian Migration, Jerry E. Clark

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Existing theories or "laws" of migration prove to be inadequate for understanding and explaining the widespread migration of the Shawnee Indians. By viewing Shawnee migration as a system, their movement from place to place can be understood in terms of cultural, historical, and environmental variables. Migration to and from Alabama and eastern Pennsylvania indicates how these variables operated to make a particular location favorable or unfavorable for the Shawnee.

Multidisciplinary Piagetian-Based Programs For College Freshmen: Table Of Contents For 1978, Robert Fuller

ADAPT Program: Essays

Cover and table of contents for third edition, 1978.

The Learning Environment For Aggression And Anti-Social Behavior Among The !Kung, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The !Kung are a provocative case study: a controversy exists as to whether they are harmless or, in fact, murderous. In addition, since the !Kung are by now well studied, one can use specific information about !Kung behavior to examine general propositions about social control and interpersonal conflict in hunting and gathering societies generally.

This paper will address the question of interpersonal conflict and aggression among !Kung, with particular emphasis on the learning environment of children and how it relates to the learning of aggressive behavior. Of concern here will be parental attitudes toward children’s behavior and techniques for dealing …

Chapter 10: Adapt Anthropology, Martin Q. Peterson

ADAPT Program: Essays

ADAPT Anthropology focuses on the discovery of various social “rules” that govern social relationships. These rules are investigated through a combination of observation and participation, a traditional method in anthropology. Students use the learning cycle paradigm, first exploring relationships between people and events, then inventing new combinations of these events as a means of informing the relationships, and finally applying what they have learned to a new set of events. In this essay, I shall consider three elements of my approach to Piagetian learning in anthropology. The first element is the successful use of the learning cycle paradigm. The second …

A Bibliography Of Anthropology-Related Serial Publications In The University Of Nebraska Libraries, Kenneth P. Lohrentz, Ann Larson, Linda Mager

Nebraska Anthropologist

This bibliography of anthropological serials in the University of Nebraska Libraries has been undertaken primarily for two reasons. The first follows from the incredibly diverse nature of the discipline itself, for the study of man and his origins has given rise to various methods of inquiry and interdisciplinary overlays. As Sol Tax has pointed out, the study of man appears to have no natural boundaries. It comes as little surprise, therefore, that the bibliography representing the published record of such a varied field of study should itself be extremely diffuse. Add to this natural diffusion the characteristic pattern of dispersed …

The Plio-Pleistocene: Sediments, Environments, And Geochronology Along The Karari Escarpment, East Turkana, Kenya, Carl F. Vondra, Daniel R. Burggraf Jr., Howard J. White

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The sedimentary sequence of East Turkana, Kenya, provides an excellent opportunity to document change contemporary with the Plio-Pleistocene boundary in East Africa. Within exposures along the Karari Ridge, sediments of the Fluvio-lacustrine Koobi Fora Formation record a dramatic change in depositional regime from low to high energy attributable to climate change and/or tectonic activity. The correlation of this abrupt transition with the beginning of the Pleistocene epoch is not without question, but controversy resulting from radiometric dating of volcanic ash units, paleomagnetic zonation, and paleontologic data exists and indicates that resolution of the Plio-Pleistocene boundary at East Turkana will be …

The Middle Missouri Tradition In Retrospect, Warren W. Caldwell

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The "culture history" of the Missouri trench in North and South Dakota has been phrased in climatological parameters. The life cycle of the Middle Missouri Tradition in particular seems to correlate closely with the Neo-Atlantic eposide, yet the interpretation is speculatory because appropriate climatic data are not available.

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Vi (1978): Table Of Contents

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee .......... ii

Editorial Board, Instructions to Contributors .......... v

Symposium: "The Ice Age- When dd it begin and has it ended"

Cochairmen: John F. Shroder, Jr. and Lloyd G. Tanner

The comparative method in stratigraphy: the beginning and end of an ice age (T. M. Stout) .......... 1

The Plio-Pleistocene: sediments, environments, and geochronology along the Karari Escarpment, East Turkana, Kenya (Vondra, Burggraf, Jr., and White) .......... 19

Chronology of some Late Cenozoic deposits from the central United States and the Ice Ages (J. D. Boellstorff) .......... 35

Progress on rock glacier research …

Prehistoric Cremations From Nogales, Arizona *, Karl J. Reinhard, Jeff H. Shipman

Karl Reinhard Publications

In October, 1969, the Highway Salvage Section of the Arizona State Museum conducted emergency salvage excavations in conjunction with the construction of the Tucson-Nogales Highway. Ten cremations were recovered from a backhoe trench which had been placed within the city limits of Nogales, Arizona. Analysis of the cremations indicated cultural contact between the Trincheras culture of Sonora, Mexico, and the Hohokam culture of the Santa Cruz River Valley in southern Arizona.

The Transient Rescue Mission: A Study In Cultural Adaptation, Patrick F. Mccarty

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Chapter 1: Introduction • Methodology • Significance of the Research

Chapter 2: Traditional Philosophy of a Rescue Mission • A Brief History of People's City Mission • The Physical Setting of People's City Mission • Daily Mission Regimen

Chapter 3: The Social Ills of Transiency • Implementation of the Mission Goals • Mission Counseling Services • Mission Employment Program • The Religious Program

Chapter 4: Transiency as a Way of Life • Main Functions of the Rescue Mission • Choosing the Mission • Alternative Translent Residencies

Chapter 5: The Social Network of the Mission Translent • Resident Social Interaction • …

Aboriginal Exploitation Of Marine Food Resources, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Theses and Student Research

Anthropological interest in human exploitation of resources has increased considerably during the last decade. Archaeological and ethnological literature concerning man's utilization of the world's oceans is relatively abundant and there are now several on-going anthropological research programs, e.g., Aleutian Islands, Pacific Northwest Coast, California, Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Southern Africa which focus primarily on maritime adaptations. The purpose of this study is threefold: (1) to suggest that anthropological assumptions regarding marine food resources and their use are inadequate; (2) to examine marine ecosystems with respect to structure and dynamics, primary productivity, ecological efficiencies, distributional and quantitative …

Departmental Review: Department Of Agricultural Education, Osmund S. Gilbertson

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Materials and History

1. Schedule for Review of Departmental Program

2. Overview of Agricultural Education Department: Functions; Budgets; Where Ag. Ed. Graduates Go; Advisory Council

3. University Administration: UN-L Organization Chart; IANR Administrative Chart

4. Agricultural Education Faculty: Staff and Assignments; Appointments, status and experience; Professional Activities during last two calendar years

5. Instructional Program: Teaching &Advisement; mEnrollment History; Undergraduate Curriculum; Graduate Program; Departmental Self Survey

6. Research and Writing: Project Descriptions; Accomplishments; Planned Objectives; Recent Publications

7. Extension Activities

8. Special Programs: In-Service Education; Curriculum Modification Project

9. Future Directions: Instructional; Research; Extension; Continuing/In-Service

Vacancy Chains And Intra-Urban Migration, Donald C. Rundquist

Department of Geography: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research

American society is a very mobile one, with approximately twenty percent of the populace changing its place of residence every year. It has been estimated that over two-thirds of all moves take place within the city. Geographic studies of intra-urban migration generally treat the relocations as either 1) movement from one areal unit to another, such as inter-census tract flows, or as 2) individual-level, unrelated moves between respective origins and destinations. In reality, however, each change of residence is one part of a much longer sequence of changes.

This thesis examines intra-city moves within the framework of their real-world linkage …

Can Physics Develop Reasoning?, Robert Fuller, Robert Karplus, Anton E. Lawson

Robert G. Fuller Publications

The life of every physicist is punctuated by events that lead him to discover that the way physicists see natural phenomena is different from the way non-physicists see them. Certain patterns of reasoning appear to be more common among physicists than in other groups. These include:
• focusing on the important variables (such as the force that accelerates the apple, rather than the lump it makes on your head);
• propositional logic ("if heat were a liquid it would occupy space and a cannon barrel could only contain a limited amount of heat, but this is contrary to my observations, …

Some Important Projectile Point Types From Nebraska, Thomas P. Myers, Harvey L. Gunderson

University of Nebraska State Museum: Programs Information

Archaeologists apply the term "projectile point" to a wide range of tools. Although they used to think projectile points were used only for spears, they now realize hat the heavier, ill-shaped points were used as knives. Ahler 1971).

Projectile points can be made from just about anything that can be sharpened, including stone, glass, wood, bone, and metal. Flaked stone points are most common in Nebraska, although metal points and occasionally bone points have been found.

The Unique Art Of Molas, Jane T. Anderson

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The San Bias Islands, one for each day of the year, lie on the Caribbean side of Panama in a chain of tiny atolls. The Cuna Indians, who left the mainland long ago seeking peaceful isolation, live a quiet communal life in the thatched houses that crowd these Islands. The Cunas have always been self-sufficient, raising their food, building their houses and canoes and making their tools, medicines and clothing. Their economy has long been based on the sale of coconuts, but some men work in the Canal Zone and some sail as merchant seamen and this income enables them …

A Personal Vision Of A More Meaningful Anthropology (A Review Of Personal And Extrapersonal Vision In Anthropology By Robert Jay), David C. Dominik

Nebraska Anthropologist

In an unpublished paper presented to the AAA Annual meeting in 1969, Robin Ridington discusses "The Anthropology of Experience" (also the title). The paper relates the story of Jumping Mouse, a not-so-ordinary field mouse. Jumping Mouse leaves his brothers to satisfy his curiosity about the rushing sound in his head. The story makes special note that Jumping Mouse can see only a short distance ahead of himself as he travels, the philosophical implication being that he has limited vision. Curiosity becomes a quest after Jumping Mouse sees the rushing river; he the strives to reach the sacred mountains way off …

Review Of The Grant Oneota Village By Marshall Mckusick, Carol Raish

Nebraska Anthropologist

Marshall McKusick's monograph, The Grant Oneota Village, reports the results of excavations at the Grant Village site (13AM201). Grant Village is a multicomponent site located on the Hartley Terrace of the Upper Iowa River, Allamakee County, Iowa. The main focus of the report is the description and interpretation of house remains found on the terrace. The site is a very important one for Oneota specialists as it offers the possibility of much new information on house form and community patterning. Other topics covered include a discussion of Oneota taxonomy, a cultural chronology of the Hartley Terrace, and ethnohistotic parallels …

Climatic Change And The Initial Middle Missouri Tradition, David L. Cook

Nebraska Anthropologist

It has been postulated that a favorable climatic change occurs worldwide at approximately 900 A.D. At this same time, many cultures expanded and many cultures appeared for the first time, specifically the Initial Middle Missouri Variant in North and South Dakota. In this paper, I will try to demonstrate that a climatic change did occur worldwide, that cultures do respond and change to shifts in climate, and I will try to demonstrate the responses of certain cultures to the 900 A.D. climatic change. Specifically, I will try to show what may have happened to the Initial Middle Missouri culture area …

Some Questions About Anthropological Linguistics: The Role Of The Native (A Review Of A Critical Analysis By Michael L. Blake), Kenneth Hale

Nebraska Anthropologist

The author seems to be greatly concerned about current trends within his profession of Anthropological Linguistics. He has made some extremely valid observations and some equally valid suggestions to reconstruct the field of Linguistics in order to deal with pertinent problems of today.

Hale views Anthropology as a product of its origin. He believes that it is constrained by the limitations of a white Anglo-Saxon denomination in the field, in academic endeavors, and more precisely in its most important aspect, it's application. In particular he attacks the idea that non-native speakers, as objective observers, are more successful. The probable cause …

Claude Levi-Strauss: The Man And His Works, Susan M. Voss

Nebraska Anthropologist

"Claude Levi-Strauss, Professor of Social Anthropology at the College de France, is, by common consent, the most distinguished exponent of this particular academic trade to be found anywhere outside the English speaking world... " (Leach 1970: 7)

With this in mind, I am still wondering how I came to be embroiled in an attempt not only to understand the multifaceted theorizing of Levi-Strauss myself, but to interpret even a portion of this wide inventory to my colleagues. There is much (the majority, perhaps) of Claude Levi-Strauss which eludes me yet. To quote Edmund Leach again, "The outstanding characteristic of his …

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences- Table Of Contents And Introduction

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

TRANSACTIONS of the NEBRASKA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

CONTENTS

Nebraska Academy of Science, Officers, Policy Committee, Editorial Board ....................... ii

Instructions to Contributors....................... vi

ANTHROPOLOGY Calcium carbonate inclusions in pottery: Some cautions for the archaeologist RAYMOND LEICHT ....................... 1

The group foster home counselor: An anthropological analysis PATRICK F. MC CARTY ....................... 5

Man-made artifacts from the Red Willow Gravel Pits THOMAS P. MYERS ....................... 9

BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCES

Plant galls of the vicinity of Seward, Nebraska CARL T. BRANDHORST ....................... 13

Marvinmeyerla lucida (Moore, 1954) a commensal of Helisoma trivolvis (Say) (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Nebraska DANIEL R. BROOKS and …

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Calcium Carbonate Inclusions In Pottery: Some Cautions For The Archaeologist, Raymond Leicht

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Studies of original firing temperature of pottery based on thermal properties of calcium carbonate and cultural inferences about potters' capabilities derived from such studies must be examined in the context of other intervening variables. These variables include original firing atmosphere, length of firing, size and concentration of the carbonate inclusions.

The Group Foster Home Counselor: An Anthropological Analysis, Patrick F. Mccarty

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The group, foster home provides an appropriate setting for an anthropological analysis of the evolution of political power-its acquisition, maintenance, and transfer. This paper discusses the relationship of roles between the group-home counselor (as the leader) and the adolescent, foster boys (as the leader's power base). As this power base is established, the leadership role changes from "strong" to "weak" and is transferred to subsequent counselors who must undergo this same political process.

Review Report For Water Resources Development Missouri River South Dakota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Montana, Volume 3 Of 3

United States Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District

Appendix 2, Pertinent Correspondence Letters From:

Bureau of Outdoor Recreation, Bureau of Reclamation, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Federal Power Commission, Department of Housing & Urban Development, Department of Health, Education & Welfare, Bureau of Mines, Bureau of Land Management, United States Coast Guard, Soil Conservation Service, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Energy Research and Development Administration, Missouri River Basin Commission, Fish and Wildlife Service, Siouxland Interstate Metropolitan Planning Council, Montana Office of Budget and Program Planning, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation, Montana Department of Fish and Game, Governor of Montana, Glasgow Area Chamber of Commerce …

Responsibility In Anthropology (A Review Of The Life And Culture Of Ecotopia By E. N. Anderson, Jr.), Prudence Sadler

Nebraska Anthropologist

A great deal of discussion in recent anthropological literature has been directed toward "relevance in anthropology". The issues which are confronted under the concept of relevance in anthropology would be perhaps more correctly labeled "responsibility in anthropology".

Relevance is defined as pertinence and, social applicability, in other words, the ability, to satisfy a need. The concept of responsibility encompasses this social applicability but also includes moral and rational accountability for one's conduct and obligations. Not only is it the ability to satisfy a need but the accountability for the actions taken to satisfy the need and the repercussions which follow. …

Evolution For Anthropology: Setting Our House In Order (A Review Of Bringing It All Back Home By Gerald D. Berreman), Dennis Toom

Nebraska Anthropologist

In Berreman's article, as in most of the other articles in Reinventing Anthropology, the main topic of discussion is that, once again, the need for change has presented itself in the discipline: anthropology needs to be reinvented. The changes called for have to do with relevance, responsibility, receptivity and the like. None of the authors offers much in the way of suggestions for accomplishing this ideological overhaul for anthropology; they only acknowledge the need for it. Processes of change are characteristically disruptive, producing harmful and negative effects during the transition, and change in anthropology is no different.

The Nebraska Anthropologist Volume 3 (1977) Contents

Nebraska Anthropologist

Introduction ............ ii

CLIMATIC CHANGE AND THE INITIAL MIDDLE MISSOURI TRADITION (David L. Cook) ............ 1

THE GRANT ONEOTA VILLAGE (Marshall McKusick, Reviewed by Carol Raish) ............ 17

LEVI-STRAUSS: THE MAN AND HIS WORKS (Susan M. Voss) ............ 21

SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGICAL LINGUISTICS: THE ROLE OF THE NATIVE (Kenneth Hale, Reviewed by Michael L. Blake) ............ 39

PERSONAL AND EXTRAPERSONAL VISION IN ANTHROPOLOGY (Robert Jay, Reviewed by David C. Dominik) ............ 41

COUNTER CULTURE AND CULTURAL HEGEMONY: SOME NOTES ON THE YOUTH REBELLION OF THE 1960's (A. Norman Klein, Reviewed by Patrick F. McCarty) ............ 45

THE LIFE AND …