Watercraft, People, And Animals: Setting The Stage For The Neolithic Colonization Of The Mediterranean Islands Of Cyprus And Crete,
2015
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Watercraft, People, And Animals: Setting The Stage For The Neolithic Colonization Of The Mediterranean Islands Of Cyprus And Crete, Katelyn Dibenedetto
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
One of the most significant developments in human history was the “Neolithic Revolution,” which first began around 11,000 years ago in mainland Southwest Asia. It resulted in not only the economic reorientation from hunting and foraging to herding and farming based on domesticate resources, but also significant changes in human technology, demography, society, political organization, ideology and human relationships to the environment. In order to understand this momentous process, however, it is important to understand the events that set it in motion. This is particularly the case when dealing with oceanic Mediterranean islands, specifically Cyprus and Crete, where there is …
Unsortable Wares: A Petrographic Analysis Of Addis Temper From The Fatherland Site (22ad501), Adams County, Mississippi,
2015
University of Southern Mississippi
Unsortable Wares: A Petrographic Analysis Of Addis Temper From The Fatherland Site (22ad501), Adams County, Mississippi, David Benjamin Abbott Jr.
Master's Theses
In the Lower Mississippi Valley from about 1200AD until European contact, two different ceramic tempers (and presumably cultures) existed side-by-side. Areas in which grog or clay tempering occurs are considered part of the Plaquemine Culture. Areas in which shell tempering predominates are considered part of the Mississippian Culture. Ceramic pastes that contain both shell and grog cause some classificatory confusion. This research examines the history of some of the confusion surrounding Addis ware/paste through its varying descriptions in the archaeological literature and attempts, through experiment and petrographic analysis, to give some insight into this paste recipe and its variability.
The Bioarchaeology Of Social Order: Cooperation And Conflict Among The Mimbres (Ad 550-1300),
2015
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
The Bioarchaeology Of Social Order: Cooperation And Conflict Among The Mimbres (Ad 550-1300), Kathryn Mary Baustian
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Interpersonal conflict, social control, and culturally sanctioned violence are all potential modes of effecting change amongst most human groups. This research investigates the complex relationship between interpersonal violence, human skeletal biology, and social identity among prehistoric agricultural communities in the American Southwest. Using bioarchaeology as a research framework, the data presented in this study reveal patterns that can be used to better understand how violence is utilized or avoided in any time period. Bioarchaeology is well suited to investigate violence because it integrates the most direct evidence of conflict (traumatic skeletal injury) with detailed archaeological reconstructions of past human experiences. …
Was It For Walrus? Viking Age Settlement And Medieval Walrus Ivory Trade In Iceland And Greenland,
2015
National Museum of Denmark
Was It For Walrus? Viking Age Settlement And Medieval Walrus Ivory Trade In Iceland And Greenland, Karen M. Frei, Ashley N. Coutu, Konrad Smiarowski, Ramona Harrison, Christian K. Madsen, Jette Arneborg, Robert Frei, Gardar Guðmundsson, Søren M. Sindbækg, James Woollett, Steven Hartman, Megan Hicks, Thomas Mcgovern
Publications and Research
Walrus-tusk ivory and walrus-hide rope were highly desired goods in Viking Age north-west Europe. New finds of walrus bone and ivory in early Viking Age contexts in Iceland are concentrated in the south-west, and suggest extensive exploitation of nearby walrus for meat, hide and ivory during the first century of settlement. In Greenland, archaeofauna suggest a very different specialized long-distance hunting of the much larger walrus populations in the Disko Bay area that brought mainly ivory to the settlement areas and eventually to European markets. New lead isotopic analysis of archaeological walrus ivory and bone from Greenland and Iceland offers …
Osteology Of A Burial Vessel From The Late Prehistoric/Early Contact Period Pine Harbor Site (9mc64),
2015
Georgia Southern University
Osteology Of A Burial Vessel From The Late Prehistoric/Early Contact Period Pine Harbor Site (9mc64), Amanda C. Shively
Honors College Theses
This research focuses on osteological examination of a single urn-burial’s contents from Pine Harbor (9MC64), a late prehistoric to early contact period archaeological site excavated on the coast of Georgia in 1978. Analysis generated from this study seeks to shed light on burial demographics and practices of its native occupants.
Variable Models For Organization Of Earthworking Communities In Upper Purus, Southwestern Amazonia: Archaeological And Ethnographic Perspectives,
2015
University of Helsinki
Variable Models For Organization Of Earthworking Communities In Upper Purus, Southwestern Amazonia: Archaeological And Ethnographic Perspectives, Sanna Saunaluoma, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
No abstract provided.
Architectural Hardware,
2015
Western Michigan University
Architectural Hardware, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 6. Eighteenth Century Architectural Hardware
Storage Structures,
2015
Western Michigan University
Storage Structures, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 2. Military and Commercial Storage Buildings
Domestic Structures - 2,
2015
Western Michigan University
Domestic Structures - 2, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 5. Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture in the St. Joseph River Valley
Domestic Structures - 1,
2015
Western Michigan University
Domestic Structures - 1, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 5. Eighteenth Century Domestic Architecture in the St. Joseph River Valley
Military Fortifications,
2015
Western Michigan University
Military Fortifications, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 4. Fortifications and Military Buildings in New France
Special Purpose Structures,
2015
Western Michigan University
Special Purpose Structures, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 3. Special Purpose Structures: Places of Rituals and Daily Practice
Structures Introductory Panel,
2015
Western Michigan University
Structures Introductory Panel, Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project, Michael S. Nassaney
Fort St. Joseph Archaeological Project
Panel 1. Seeking Shelter from the Storm; Architecture in Eighteenth Century New France
Birds, Monkeys, And Shapes, Oh My! Investigating Intersecting Motifs On Vessels, Stamps, And Candeleros,
2015
University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Birds, Monkeys, And Shapes, Oh My! Investigating Intersecting Motifs On Vessels, Stamps, And Candeleros, Marne Ausec, Patricia Urban, Jacob Griffith-Rosenberger, Reagan Neviska, Chelsea Katzeman
Four Valleys Archive Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Fashioning Meaning Through Ceramic Candeleros In The Terminal Classic Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras,
2015
Kenyon College
Fashioning Meaning Through Ceramic Candeleros In The Terminal Classic Naco Valley, Northwestern Honduras, Jacob Griffith-Rosenberger, Reagan Neviska, Chelsea Katzeman
Four Valleys Archive Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Through A Smoke Cloud Darkly: The Possible Significance Of A Candeleros In The Terminal Classic Naco Valley,
2015
Kenyon College
Through A Smoke Cloud Darkly: The Possible Significance Of A Candeleros In The Terminal Classic Naco Valley, Edward Schortman, Patricia Urban, Jacob Griffith-Rosenberger, Reagan Neviska, Chelsea Katzeman
Four Valleys Archive Scholarship
Presented at the 80th annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California (2015)
Is It Hot Enough Yet? Reconstructing Firing Temperatures For Prehistoric Honduran Ceramics Through Re-Firing Experiments,
2015
Kenyon College
Is It Hot Enough Yet? Reconstructing Firing Temperatures For Prehistoric Honduran Ceramics Through Re-Firing Experiments, Caroline Del Giudice
Four Valleys Archive Scholarship
The Society for American Archaeology Conference
Issue 66, Spring 2015,
2015
Syracuse University
Issue 66, Spring 2015, Society Of Bead Researchers
The Bead Forum: Newsletter of the Society of Bead Researchers
Imitations of Natural Objects Made for the African Trade by the French Factory Bapterosses, by Marie-José Opper and Craig Eady.
Kwakwaka’Wakw “Clam Gardens”: Motive And Agency In Traditional Northwest Coast Mariculture,
2015
Portland State University
Kwakwaka’Wakw “Clam Gardens”: Motive And Agency In Traditional Northwest Coast Mariculture, Douglas Deur, Adam Dick, Kim Recalma-Clutesi, Nancy J. Turner
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
The indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast of North America actively managed natural resources in diverse ways to enhance their productivity and proximity. Among those practices that have escaped the attention of anthropologists until recently is the traditional management of intertidal clam beds, which Northwest Coast peoples have enhanced through techniques such as selective harvests, the removal of shells and other debris, and the mechanical aeration of the soil matrix. In some cases, harvesters also removed stones or even created stone revetments that served to laterally expand sediments suitable for clam production into previously unusable portions of the tidal zone. …
Interpreting Bronze Age Exchange In Sicily Through Trace Element Characterization Of Ceramics Utilizing Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (Pxrf),
2015
University of South Florida
Interpreting Bronze Age Exchange In Sicily Through Trace Element Characterization Of Ceramics Utilizing Portable X-Ray Fluorescence (Pxrf), Erin Marie Mckendry
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Throughout history and prehistory, Sicily has played a key role for maritime trade in the Mediterranean. Interactions with Sicily are attested to in research for various societies throughout the Mediterranean as early as the Neolithic. However, much of this research paints Sicilian societies as passive, focusing primarily on external groups of people in a given period and their influence on the island. By ignoring the importance of the indigenous population, current research lacks a balanced approach to investigations and subsequent conclusions. This is most evident in literature pertaining to Mycenaean interactions with Sicily during the Bronze Age. Ceramic evidence and …
