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Physical Geography And Climate: Overview, Andrew Sluyter, Tereza Cavazos Jan 2001

Physical Geography And Climate: Overview, Andrew Sluyter, Tereza Cavazos

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Colonialism And Landscape In The Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations And Continuing Consequences, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2001

Colonialism And Landscape In The Americas: Material/Conceptual Transformations And Continuing Consequences, Andrew Sluyter

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Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations In The Precolumbian Americas, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2001

Imperfect Balance: Landscape Transformations In The Precolumbian Americas, Andrew Sluyter

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Ganadería Española Y Cambio Ambiental En Las Tierras Bajas Tropicales De Veracruz, México, Siglo Xvi, Andrew Sluyter Jan 2001

Ganadería Española Y Cambio Ambiental En Las Tierras Bajas Tropicales De Veracruz, México, Siglo Xvi, Andrew Sluyter

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Preservation And Interpretive Plan For The Dill Tract Civil War Earthworks On James Island, South Carolina, Steven D. Smith Aug 2000

Preservation And Interpretive Plan For The Dill Tract Civil War Earthworks On James Island, South Carolina, Steven D. Smith

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Beginning in the late fall of 1862 the Confederate Army defending Charleston began work on a line of earthworks and batteries across James Island, South Carolina, from Secessionville to the Stono River. The lines were called the "New Lines" to distinguish them from other lines built in 1861. Today, approximately 3,000 feet of these lines still exist in very good condition on a 17.3 acre tract of land that represent a portion of the Dill Tract. The tract and earthworks (archaeological site 38CH 195) are part of a noncontiguous district listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are …


Settlement Patterns And The Origins Of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Douglas V. Armstrong, Kenneth G. Kelly Apr 2000

Settlement Patterns And The Origins Of African Jamaican Society: Seville Plantation, St. Ann's Bay, Jamaica, Douglas V. Armstrong, Kenneth G. Kelly

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Archaeological and historical research at Seville Plantation, Jamaica, are used to explain changes in settlement patterns within the estate's African Jamaican community between 1670 and the late nineteenth century. Sugar plantations, such as Seville, are marked by well-defined spatial order based upon economic and power relations that was imposed upon enslaved communities by planters and managers. Archaeological evidence is used to explore how enslaved Africans modified this imposed order and redefined boundaries in ways that correspond with the development of a distinct African Jamaican society. The rigidly defined linear housing arrangements initially established by the planter, and their relations to …


Zooarchaeology, Susan L. Scott Jan 2000

Zooarchaeology, Susan L. Scott

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Daily Life In The Shadow Of Empire: A Food Systems Approach To The Archaeology Of The Ottoman Period, Oystein S. Labianca Jan 2000

Daily Life In The Shadow Of Empire: A Food Systems Approach To The Archaeology Of The Ottoman Period, Oystein S. Labianca

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Playing With Time - Art And Peformance In Mali, Stephen Wooten Mar 1999

Playing With Time - Art And Peformance In Mali, Stephen Wooten

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A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven D. Smith Jan 1999

A Good Home For A Poor Man: Fort Polk And Vernon Parish, 1800-1940, Steven D. Smith

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Review Of Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Resource Management, By Fikret Berkes, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1999

Review Of Sacred Ecology: Traditional Ecological Knowledge And Resource Management, By Fikret Berkes, Andrew Sluyter

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The Power Paradox In Muslim Women’S Majales: North-West Pakistani Mourning Rituals As Sites Of Contestation Over Religious Politics, Ethnicity, And Gender, Mary E. Hegland Jan 1998

The Power Paradox In Muslim Women’S Majales: North-West Pakistani Mourning Rituals As Sites Of Contestation Over Religious Politics, Ethnicity, And Gender, Mary E. Hegland

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During revolutions, rebellions, and movements, women are often called on to serve contradictory roles. They are asked to perform workpolitical, communicative, networking, recruiting, military, manual - that generally goes beyond the society's usual gender restrictions. At the same time, women serve as symbols of movement identity, unity, commitment, and righteous entitlement. To fit into this idealized symbolic image, individual women must fulfill often "traditional" or even exaggerated "feminine" behavioral and attitudinal requirements, such as loyalty, obedience, selflessness, sacrifice, and "proper" deportment: all in all, they are to put aside any personal aspirations and wishes for self-fulfillment and give their all …


The Evolving Landscape: Homer Aschmann's Geography, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1998

The Evolving Landscape: Homer Aschmann's Geography, Andrew Sluyter

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A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, Ad 500 To The Present. By Alfred H. Siemens, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1998

A Favored Place: San Juan River Wetlands, Central Veracruz, Ad 500 To The Present. By Alfred H. Siemens, Andrew Sluyter

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Grounds For Argument: Local Understandings, Science, And Global Processes In Special Forest Products Harvesting, Thomas Love, Eric Jones Jan 1997

Grounds For Argument: Local Understandings, Science, And Global Processes In Special Forest Products Harvesting, Thomas Love, Eric Jones

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In posing the question "Where are the pickers?", Love and Jones suggest that the shifting paradigm in forestry is real and that academia is not leading the shift. Love and Jones illustrate the emergence of special forest products' legitimacy in competing uses of forests with their experience and research in mushroom harvesting in the Pacific Northwest.


Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare Jan 1997

Assessing Native American Disturbances In Mixed Oak Forests Of The Allegheny Plateau, Andrew Sluyter, Charles M. Ruffner, Marc D. Abrams, Charlie Crothers, Jack Mclaughlin, Richard Kandare

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On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1997

On “Buried Epistemologies: The Politics Of Nature In (Post) Colonial British Columbia”: On Excavating And Burying Epistemologies, Andrew Sluyter

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Variability Of A Vestigial Structure: First Metacarpal In Colobus Guereza And Ateles Geoffroyi, Robert G. Tague Jan 1997

Variability Of A Vestigial Structure: First Metacarpal In Colobus Guereza And Ateles Geoffroyi, Robert G. Tague

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A tenet of evolutionary theory is that, under conditions of stabilizing selection, phenotypic variability is inversely related to selection intensity. Correspondingly, a nonfunctional, vestigial structure is expected to be highly variable relative to its functional homologue. This study tests the hypothesis that species with a vestigial pollex, Colobus guereza and Ateles geoffroyi, have a first metacarpal whose length is both highly variable relative to, and poorly correlated with, the lengths of the other metapodials. The results are consistent with the hypothesis, though this combination of traits is also found in Presbytis rubicunda and Presbytis cristata. The latter two species have …


Early Agriculture In The Maya Lowlands, Mary D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, John G. Jones, John S. Jacob, Dolores R. Piperno, Susan D. Defrance, David L. Lentz, John A. Gifford, Marie E. Danforth, J. Kathryn Josserand Dec 1996

Early Agriculture In The Maya Lowlands, Mary D. Pohl, Kevin O. Pope, John G. Jones, John S. Jacob, Dolores R. Piperno, Susan D. Defrance, David L. Lentz, John A. Gifford, Marie E. Danforth, J. Kathryn Josserand

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Wetland research in northern Belize provides the earliest evidence for development of agriculture in the Maya Lowlands. Pollen data confirm the introduction of maize and manioc before 3000 B.C. Dramatic deforestation, beginning ca. 2500 B.C. and intensifying in wetland environments ca. 1500-1300 B.C., marks an expansion of agriculture, which occurred in the context of a mixed foraging economy. By 1000 B.C. a rise in groundwater levels led farmers to construct drainage ditches coeval with the emergence of Maya complex society ca. 1000-400 B.C. Field manipulations often involved minor modifications of natural hummocks. Canal systems are not as extensive in northern …


Ancient Peoples And Landscapes, H. Edwin Jackson Oct 1996

Ancient Peoples And Landscapes, H. Edwin Jackson

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The Nazca Lines, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1996

The Nazca Lines, Andrew Sluyter

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Veracruz (State), Andrew Sluyter Jan 1996

Veracruz (State), Andrew Sluyter

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Lords Of The Hills-Ancient Maya Settlement In The Puuc Region, Yucatan, Mexico-Dunning, Np, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1995

Lords Of The Hills-Ancient Maya Settlement In The Puuc Region, Yucatan, Mexico-Dunning, Np, Andrew Sluyter

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Review Of The Cultural Landscape During 6000 Years In Southern Sweden—The Ystad Project, Edited By Björn E. Berglund, Andrew Sluyter Jan 1995

Review Of The Cultural Landscape During 6000 Years In Southern Sweden—The Ystad Project, Edited By Björn E. Berglund, Andrew Sluyter

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On-Site Water Retention Strategies: Solutions From The Past For Dealing With Jordan's Present Water Crisis, Oystein S. Labianca Jan 1995

On-Site Water Retention Strategies: Solutions From The Past For Dealing With Jordan's Present Water Crisis, Oystein S. Labianca

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Stature Change In Prehistoric Maya Of The Southern Lowlands, Marie E. Danforth Sep 1994

Stature Change In Prehistoric Maya Of The Southern Lowlands, Marie E. Danforth

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Since the 1950s, a decline in stature has been offered as evidence of increasing nutritional stress in prehistoric Maya populations, particularly during the Late Classic collapse. A review of the extant skeletal data, however, reveals very inconsistent support for such a decline. The primary explanation for the variation may reside in the small number of skeletal series that have representatives of more than one time period. Other possible explanations include methodological problems associated with stature reconstruction, reliability in sex determination, and variation in health response according to site size and location.


The Human Remains From Carter-Ranch Pueblo,Arizona: Health In Isolation, Marie E. Danforth, Della Collins Cook, Stanley G. Knick Iii Jan 1994

The Human Remains From Carter-Ranch Pueblo,Arizona: Health In Isolation, Marie E. Danforth, Della Collins Cook, Stanley G. Knick Iii

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Health patterns in the Pueblo III (A.D. 1100-1225) population from Carter Ranch Pueblo were investigated in skeletal remains from 34 individuals. Childhood health disruptions were assessed using stature, linear enamel hypoplasias, and Harris lines. Periostitis, arthritis, anemia, trauma, and dental pathology were also observed. Although the low juvenile representation is probably an effect of age-biased mortuary practices, results suggest a healthy population compared to larger southwestern sites. Trauma levels at the site are quite high, possibly indicating burial practices differentiated on the ability to work or other health criteria. Additionally, a number of genetic anomalies are present, suggesting an isolated …


Wife Abuse And The Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study, Mary E. Hegland Jan 1992

Wife Abuse And The Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study, Mary E. Hegland

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Although wife abuse is common in Iran, it is a subject which has received almost no attention from scholars and little has been written on it. The purpose of this article is to examine the problem, to show the connection between wife-beating and the Iranian political system, and to raise questions for further research. The data on which this analysis is based come from my own research as well as from published sources. The two case histories of wife abuse presented exemplify social process in a political system characterized by arbitrariness and the need to dominate. The degree to which …


Craft Specialization And Exchange Among The Virgin Anasazi, James R. Allison Jan 1992

Craft Specialization And Exchange Among The Virgin Anasazi, James R. Allison

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A large proportion of the culinary ceramics found on 11th century Anasazi sites in the Moapa Valley of Nevada were manufactured more that fifty miles to the east, in northwestern Arizona. This paper uses analyses of ceramics from sites in southeastern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southwestern Utah to more precisely define the regional distribution of these ceramics and to assess their degree of standardization in form and technology. Questions relating to the development of community specialization and interaction in egalitarian societies are--examined in light of these analyses.


The Mississippian Emergence - Smith, Bd, H. Edwin Jackson Jan 1992

The Mississippian Emergence - Smith, Bd, H. Edwin Jackson

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