Dylan M Schwindt,R Kyle Bocinsky,Scott Ortman et al.
Dylan M Schwindt et al.
The consequences of climate change vary over space and time. Effective studies of human responses to climatically induced environmental change must therefore sample the environmental diversity experienced by specific societies. We reconstru...
Grief and burial in the American Southwest: the role of evolutionary theory in the interpretation of mortuary remains [0.03%]
D H MacDonald
D H MacDonald
Evolutionary theory, in consort with Marxism and processualism, provides new insights into the interpretation of grave-good variation. Processual interpretations of burial sites in the American Southwest cite age, sex, or social rank as the...
Paleocoastal marine fishing on the Pacific Coast of the Americas: perspectives from Daisy Cave, California [0.03%]
T C Rick,J M Erlandson,R L Vellanoweth
T C Rick
Analysis of over 27,000 fish bones from strata at Daisy Cave dated between about 11,500 and 8500 cal B.P. suggests that early Channel Islanders fished relatively intensively in a variety of habitats using a number of distinct technologies, ...
Archaeological politics and public interest in paleoamerican studies: lessons from Gordon Creek Woman and Kennewick Man [0.03%]
D W Owsley,R L Jantz
D W Owsley
This paper discusses the Kennewick lawsuit as it relates to the intended purposes of NAGPRA. It also reflects upon comments made by Swedlund and Anderson (1999) in a recent American Antiquity Forum, which conceptually linked two ancient ske...
D G Anderson,J C Gillam
D G Anderson
How early human populations in North America maintained reproductive viability is a question that has shaped our research for over a decade. The concept of staging areas, mechanisms for band-macroband interaction, and an examination of how ...
J H Moore,M E Moseley
J H Moore
In modeling the colonization of the Americas, Anderson and Gillam (2000) employ size estimates for vanguard forager bands that are of dubious reproductive viability in light of human incest prohibitions and variable sex ratios at birth.
Estimating the minimum number of skeletal elements (MNE) in zooarchaeology: a review and a new image-analysis GIS approach [0.03%]
C W Marean,Y Abe,P J Nilssen et al.
C W Marean et al.
Most zooarchaeologists employ some type of derived measure of skeletal element abundance in their analyses of faunal data. The minimum number of individuals (MNI) and the minimum number of animal units (MAU) are two of the most popular deri...
T M Friesen
T M Friesen
Although the practice of food storage is important to many questions addressed by archaeologists, demonstrating its presence in archaeological contexts can be difficult or impossible. One potentially useful approach to meat storage is the c...
An integrative approach to mortuary analysis: social and symbolic dimensions of Chumash burial practices [0.03%]
L H Gamble,P L Walker,G S Russell
L H Gamble
Although most archaeologists recognize that valuable information about the social lives of ancient people can be obtained through the study of burial practices, it is clear that the symbolic nature of burial rituals makes interpreting their...
One person's food: how and why fish avoidance may affect the settlement and subsistence patterns of hunter-gatherers [0.03%]
M E Malainey,R Przybylski,B L Sherriff
M E Malainey