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Pvn-Cat-423-W-022-007-Fwo, Ellen Bell

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-423-W-022-006-Fwo, Patricia Urban

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-423-H-058-001-Gspolst, Matthew Turek

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-423-Z-014-002-Gsmte, Suzanne Crow

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-423-Z-014-001-Gsmte, Suzanne Crow

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-423-X-047-002-Gsmte, Bevin Etheridge

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Pvn-Cat-423-X-033-001-Gsmte, Bevin Etheridge

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-423-X-013-001b-Gsmte, Bevin Etheridge

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn-Cat-423-X-013-001a-Gsmte, Bevin Etheridge

Four Valleys Archive

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Pvn Op 386 Excavation Report, Edward Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

This report summarizes the results of excavation conducted within Groups III and IV at Site 386. The vast majority of the materials recovered here date to the Terminal Classic. The investigations conducted in Groups I and II at this settlement are reported in detail in the honors theses of Lyman Armstrong and Matthew Turek.

Pvn Op 262 Excavation Report, Edward Schortman

Four Valleys Archive

This report summarizes the results of excavations conducted at Site 262. Most of the materials recovered here date to the Late (AD 600-800) and Terminal Classic (AD 800-1000). Evidence for a substantial Middle Preclassic occupation (1200-400 BC) occupation at the settlement was also unearthed.

Pvn-Lot-423-U-047b, Jennifer Shearin

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.

Burials As Caches; Caches As Burials: A New Interpretation Of The Meaning Of Ritual Deposits Among The Classic Period Lowland Maya, Marshall Joseph Becker

Anthropology & Sociology Faculty Publications

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The Spatial Dimension Of Time, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Archaeological research depends on the temporal structural of archaeological deposits. Temporal structure includes deposit age and the sequencing or the relative temporal order of one deposit to another. Another aspect is the temporal scale and resolution, or the degree of contemporaneity shared by deposits, Archaeology is also concerned with ethnographic time, that domain in which formation events occur, i.e., the temporal characteristics of activities with respect to the piece of land on which those activities occur. This chapter explores the issue of temporal resolution or deposit grain is it relates to the tempo of use witnessed by a locale.

Coprolite Analysis: A Biological Perspective On Archaeology, Karl J. Reinhard, Baughn M. Bryant Jr

Karl Reinhard Publications

The most remarkable dietary remains recoverable from archaeological contexts are coprolites. Coprolites are desiccated or mineralized feces that are preserved in sheltered and open sites in arid regions, primarily in the New World. These dietary remains are remarkable from several perspectives. They typically contain a variety of macroscopic and microscopic remains that form interrelated data sets for the reconstruction of diets. Because contexts containing coprolites are typified by excellent preservation, the remains coprolites contain tend to be in better states of preservation than dietary remains recovered from nonfecal deposits. Coprolites also contain the well-preserved remains of intestinal parasites and pathogens …

Vertebral Pathology In Prehistoric And Historic Skeletons From Northeastern Nebraska, Karin L. Sandness, Karl J. Reinhard

Karl Reinhard Publications

Vertebral pathology has long been a useful criterion for anthropologists in the assessment of activity patterns, stress, and general health of extinct peoples. This method of analysis, however, has never been applied to the peoples of the Nebraska Great Plains. This study is the first to concentrate on the indigenous Native Americans of this region, examining the spinal pathology present in the prehistoric and historic skeletal remains. Pathology present in the form of spondylolysis, Schmorl's nodes, osteophytosis (degenerative disc disease), and osteoarthritis (degenerative joint disease), provides evidence to suggest differing activity patterns and levels of stress in Plains groups before …

Dan Canyon Burial: A Piii Burial In Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Steve Dominguez, Karl Reinhard, Kari L. Sandness, Cherie A. Edwards, Dennis Danielson, F. A. Calabrese, Chris Kincaid

Karl Reinhard Publications

The Dan Canyon burial was discovered at a time when the philosophy, ethics, and legislation concerning the study of human remains are in a state of flux. A number of important sensitive issues germane to managers, archeologists, and American Indians are discussed in the introduction. The subsequent analysis provides a detailed scientific account of these remains and a glimpse of a segment of a people's past lifeway while remaining sensitive to the wishes of the American Indians.

The burial and associated grave goods of site 42SA21339 were exposed by wave action in a location frequented by boaters at the Glen …

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

Faculty Publications

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.