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Pvn-Cat-055-L-026-020-Scnl, Marne Ausec

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-Z-002-002-Scnl, Patricia Urban

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-X-005-002-Scnl, Allyson Deitz

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-X-005-001-Scnl, Virginia Chagnon

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-X-003-016-Scnl, Marne Ausec

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-X-001-006-Scnl, Amanda Moser

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-W-005-004-Scnl, Amy Mccoy

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-055-W-001-005-Scnl, Edward Mark Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Drw-Subop 128j-Section-Structure 128-20, Edward Mark Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Drw-Subop 128l-Section-Structure 13, Edward Mark Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Drw-Subop 128i-Section-Structure 3, Edward Mark Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Drw-Op 485 Architectural Plan, John Douglass

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn Op 144 Excavation Report, Edward Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

This report summarizes the results of excavations conducted at Site 144 in the Naco valley of northwestern Honduras. The materials recovered in the course of these investigations pertain primarily to the Late Postclassic (AD 1300-1500).

Pvn-Lot-410-C-040, Matthew Turek

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-096-Shade-Field Notes-1996, Beverley Shade

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-092-Morrison-Field Notes-1996, Mary Morrison

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-091-Moorehead-Field Notes-1996, Susan Moorehead

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-090-Mooney-Field Notes-1996, James Mooney

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-084-J.Bell-Field Notes-1996, Johanna Bell

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-062-Kneppler-Field Notes-1996, Michael Kneppler

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Early Holocene Occupation At The West Lost River Site, Klamath County, Oregon, Douglas C. Wilson, John L. Fagan, Dorothy E. Freidel, Susan M. Colby

Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations

Excavations at the West Lost River Site (35KL972) provide new insights on early Holocene occupation of southwestern Oregon. The article focuses on the artifacts and specimens recovered from the site.

The Brigham Young University Folklore Of Hugh Winder Nibley: Gifted Scholar, Eccentric Professor And Latter-Day Saint Spiritual Guide, Jane D. Brady

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis explores the stories which revolve around folk legend Hugh Winder Nibley and what those stories mean to the people of Brigham Young University. Folklore reveals who we are and what is important to us. But, interestingly, folklore tends to reveal more about the person telling the story than about the subject of the story itself. People can't remember every story they hear. The ones they do remember are important to them. The stories are important because they fulfill basic needs of the teller. Such needs are a desire to look up to a hero, a need to fit …

Analytical Perspectives On A Protohistoric Cache Of Ceramic Jars From The Lower Colorado Desert, James Bayman, Richard Hevly, Boma Johnson, Karl J. Reinhard, Richard Ryan

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

A cache of hermetically sealed ceramic jars found in the Lower Colorado Desert was examined using chronometric dating, pollen and macrofossil extraction, design analysis, and water retention experimentation. The cache apparently dates to the protohistoric fifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Findings from these studies contribute to knowledge in four problem areas: (1) ceramic jar function and use-history; (2) storage technology and caching behavior; (3) ceramic dating and chronology; and (4) symbolic iconography. Biotic remains from inside the jars document their use for transporting a variety of riverine and desert plants, before they were finally filled with flowers and seeds, and placed …

Costs And Benefits Of Monogamy And Polygyny For Yanomamö Women, Raymond B. Hames

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

In this paper I analyze some of the economic costs and benefits of monogamy and polygyny for Yanomamö women. The evolutionary ecological model of resource defense polygyny predicts that when female choice is operative females will choose those males who control resources that will maximize a female’s reproductive success. A female will choose a polygynous strategy (i.e., become a co-wife) if a currently married male has more resources to offer than other unmarried males or monogamous males. This model has been successfully used to predict polygynous mating in tribal societies where males are stratified in terms of their ownership or …

Ams Dating Of Plain Weave Sandals From The Central Colorado Plateau., Phil R. Geib

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

AMS radiocarbon dates on plain-weave sandals from caves of the central Colorado Plateau are reported. The sandals range in age from about 6900 to 3200 B.P. (ca. 5700-1450 cal. B.C.). The findings strengthen a case for both population and cultural continuity during the Archaic period, and support a related argument that middle Archaic break in the occupancy of several important shelters such as Cowboy Cave resulted from settlement pattern change and not regional abandonment. The dates demonstrate that living accumulations within some shelters of lower Glen Canyon resulted from Archaic foragers and not Puebloan farmers as previously claimed. Benchmark Cave, …

"Nyatiti Is My People": Music And The Reconstruction Of Culture Among The Luo Of Western Kenya, Ian Eagleson

Honors Papers

In this thesis I contend that experiencing music is a fundamental activity in the realization of cultural identity. Music reinforces cultural identity by enacting significant forms and practices that embody meaning, meaning particular to the identity of a culture. When people hear music that is significant in their culture it excites certain feelings in them which reinforce and regenerate their identity with that culture. Participation in music is a condition that evokes a vivid impression in the participant like no other activity in social life. Functionally, this impression may reinforce themes impressed on actors in other ways; however, the way …

Meat And Potatoes: Recipes For A Range Of Egalitarianism In Three Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Amy Vlassia Margaris

Honors Papers

Throughout most of human history our ancestors lived by hunting and gathering. Only within the last ten to fifteen thousand years have alternative forms of social organization developed, duly labeled by anthropologists and archaeologists: agricultural, pastoral, and complex state societies, lineal tribes, and a host of other terms which pass in and out of favor in our ongoing (and inescapably human) attempts to categorize our own kind.

Classification lies at the heart of science, and anthropology is certainly no exception. However, categorization of any degree (which requires generalization) runs the risk of obscuring important differences between cultural groups. The trick …

Archaeology At Santa Elena: Doorway To The Past, Stanley South

Popular Series

This publication, published by the University of South Carolina's South Carolina Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, is the second issue of the Institute's Popular Series.

Contents:

Table of Contents.....p. iii
Acknowledgements.....p. v
Preface by Chester B. DePratter.....p. vii
A Spanish Colonial Overview.....p. 1
The Search for Santa Elena Begins (1978).....p. 7
The Sampling Project Begins (1979).....p. 11
Fort San Felipe is Found (1979).....p. 17
The Sampling Project Concludes (1979).....p. 19
A Hut Ruin Is Discovered (1979).....p. 21
Santa Elena is Found (1981).....p. 25
Exploring Fort San Marcos (1979).....p. 35
The War at Fort San Felipe in 1576.....p. 39
A …

Analytical Perspectives On A Protohistoric Cache Of Ceramic Jars From The Lower Colorado Desert, James M. Bayman, Richard H. Hevly, Boma Johnson, Karl J. Reinhard, Richard Ryan

Karl Reinhard Publications

A cache of hermetically sealed ceramic jars found in the Lower Colorado Desert was examined using chronometric dating, pollen and macrofossil extraction, design analysis, and water retention experimentation. The cache apparently dates to the protohistoricfifteenth through seventeenth centuries. Findings from these studies contribute to knowledge in four problem areas: (1) ceramic jar function and use-history; (2) storage technology and caching behavior; (3) ceramic dating and chronology; and (4) symbolic iconography. Biotic remains from inside the jars document their use for transporting a variety of riverine and desert plants, before they were finally filled with flowers and seeds, and placed in …

African Family And Kinship, Brian Siegel

Anthropology Publications

No abstract provided.