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Public outreach and the "hows" of archaeology : archaeology as a model for educationDaehnke, Jon Darin 01 January 2002 (has links)
There is growing awareness of the importance of public outreach in archaeology. Many professional archaeologists argue that in order to ensure continued funding we must communicate the relevance of our discipline to the public in a more effective manner. Furthermore, it is often argued that public outreach and education provides perhaps the only reliable defense against looting and rampant psuedoarchaeology.
Current outreach activities, however, tend to focus on what archaeologists have discovered about the past. While this type of outreach is important, a more effective model for public outreach would focus on the methods of archaeology, rather than the results. Archaeology, with its focus on multiple lines of evidence, intertwining of the sciences and humanities, and multi-cultural perspective provides a unique model for addressing and answering questions, a model which could serve as a base for education. Promoting the methods of archaeology as an educational model, or at the very least, remembering the methods in our outreach activities, may be, in the long run, the most effective method for establishing the relevance of our discipline.
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The Burnett Site : a Cascade Phase camp on the lower Willamette RiverBurnett, Robert M. 01 January 1991 (has links)
Artifacts recovered from archaeological excavations near the Willamette River in Lake Oswego, Oregon indicate the presence there of a Late Windust-Early Cascade Phase site possibly dating to 9,000 B.P. The assemblage includes 137 projectile points, bifaces or point fragments, nearly all of the Cascade-type. Two stem fragments and one complete point which are similar to those of the Windust Phase which dates 10,000-8,000 B.P. in the southern Columbia Plateau also were found. Stone knives, choppers, scrapers, hammerstones, cores and microblades also are included in the assemblage. No later type notched or stemmed points have been recovered from the site. If the hypothesized dates are valid, the site will be the oldest discovered to date in the Lower Willamette River-Portland Basin area. This thesis reports on the site, its excavation and its artifacts.
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Late Pleistocene lithic technological organization on the southern Oregon coast : investigations at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C)Willis, Samuel C. 11 March 2005 (has links)
Excavations conducted at Indian Sands (35-CU-67C), located along Oregon's
southern coast, during 2002 and 2003 identified two discreet, artifact-bearing stratigraphic
units. The uppermost unit is a deflated surface containing burnt shell and lithic artifacts
associated with early Holocene ¹⁴C dates, while the underlying unit contained only lithic tools
and debitage, some of which were associated with a ¹⁴C date of 10,430 ± 150 RCYBP. The
late Pleistocene lithic assemblage at 35-CU-67C provides the earliest evidence for human
presence on the Oregon coast to date. Analysis performed on the late Pleistocene
assemblage addresses the validity of existing hypotheses regarding the nature of early
Oregon coastal hunter-gatherer technological and subsistence strategies. These
hypotheses are focused on whether early populations on the Oregon coast practiced a
generalist-forager or collector subsistence strategy.
Using theoretical approaches that deal with the organization of hunter-gatherer
technology, analyses were conducted on the lithic tool and debitage assemblages at 35-CU-
67C in order to infer past hunter-gatherer behavior. Through the implementation of multiple
tool and debitage analysis methodologies, issues of hunter-gatherer mobility, raw material
procurement, stages of lithic reduction, tool production, and site function are presented. The data generated by the late Pleistocene lithic assemblage at 35-CU-67C are compared with
the overlying surficial assemblage, additional early sites along the North American Pacific
coast, and to contemporaneous sites located further inland within the Pacific Northwest
region.
Results of the lithic analyses at 35-CU-67C show distinct similarities in debitage trends
between the assemblages of each stratigraphic unit. However, when tool assemblages from
these units are compared, discrepancies in the types and amount of tools are found.
Reasons for intra-site variability and similarity are explained through raw material studies
and site function at 35-CU-67C. Additionally, similarities between the early tool assemblage
at 35-CU-67C and those found in early tool assemblages on the extended Pacific coast and
interior Pacific Northwest regions are discussed.
This thesis demonstrates that early southern Oregon coastal populations had a tendency
towards high mobility and used a generalized toolkit organization. Early lithic technology
used at 35-CU-67C emphasized multidirectional core technology and biface manufacture in
the form of preforms and leaf-shaped projectile-points. This type of technological
organization is to be expected from hunter-gatherers practicing a generalist-forager
subsistence strategy. Based on the 10,430 ± 150 RCYBP date and technological
organization at 35-CU-67C, early Oregon coastal occupation is seen as encompassing a
generalist-forager subsistence strategy most likely adapted to both coastal and terrestrial
environments. / Graduation date: 2005
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The archeology of Aquilla Reservoir : implications for a regional research design for the central Brazos River Basin, TexasWatson, Richard P. (Richard Paul) 24 October 2011 (has links)
The purpose of this report is threefold: 1) to provide a description and discussion of research undertaken in the Aquilla Lake area, Hill County, Texas, in 1979 and 1980; 2) to propose a regional research design for the entire Central Brazos region; and 3) to analyze evidence from the Aquilla investigations in terms of the proposed regional perspective. / text
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The Northwood Site (12VI194) : report of archaeological investigations conducted at a middle woodland Allison-Lamotte habitation site and an associated management planAdderley, Anthony W. January 2001 (has links)
Archaeological test excavations were conducted at 12Vi194 (Northwood Site) in a portion of the site where residential development is planned or has taken place. Thirty four 2x2 m units were excavated to the base of midden deposits, exposing eight features. Six of these features proved to be of aboriginal origin, with their terminal function as refuse pits. Materials recovered from the site span some 4000 years, from the Late Archaic period through the Late Woodland period. The majority of materials, as well as all aboriginal features, date to the late Middle Woodland Allison-LaMotte culture (AD 100-600), and include ten Lowe Flared base projectile points, 1700+ pieces of lithic debris, 4500 ceramic sherds, a vast quantity of floral and faunal debris, and the remains of one badly deteriorated human interment (pre-natal infant).The investigations at this site were carried out to assess the significance of the deposits. Based on the quantity of artifacts, size and density of pit features and well defined midden deposits, this site is considered significant and therefore eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (see Appendix). Due to developers plans on this and adjacent sites, a management plan outlining future impacts and lternatives is also provided. / Department of Anthropology
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Greek myths abroad : a comparative regional study of their funerary uses in fourth-century BC Apulia and EtruriaRiedemann Lorca, Valeria January 2015 (has links)
This dissertation presents a regional comparative study of the uses of Greek heroic stories as illustrated on funerary monuments of Apulia and Etruria in the fourth century BC. Founded on the grounds of contextual archaeology and reception theory, it approaches a group of Apulian red-figure vases, Etruscan sarcophagi and tomb-paintings from both regions as a means of investigating the cultural significance of the myths presented in the grave by different peoples in Italy. Moreover, this study emphasises the possible ways in which viewers engaged with the images depicted on these monuments by defining a cultural frame ('horizon of expectations') for their interpretation of the images. Further contributions include the development of a model for the interpretation of the myths depicted on Apulian red-figure vases and the prominence of the corpus of Etruscan mythological sarcophagi, a type of monument often neglected in Etruscan studies. At the end of the dissertation, it will become clear - it is expected - that there were regional preferences for particular myths and differences in both the media and the ways in which Greek myths were used and displayed during the funeral.
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Seasonality, shell midden layers, and Coast Salish subsistence activities at the Crescent Beach site, DgRr 1Ham, Leonard Charles January 1982 (has links)
This dissertation is concerned with the analysis of a late portion of the Crescent Beach shell midden (DgRr 1 ) situated on Boundary Bay in the southern Fraser River Delta of British Columbia. The basic objectives of this study are the recovery and analysis of shell midden layers and their constituents to obtain information on Coast Salish subsistence activities, and to initiate a better understanding of shell midden formation.
The cultural history of the Strait of Georgia region is viewed as a 5,000 year long Tradition of Coast Salish Cultures. To place the archaeological materials from Crescent Beach in their proper cultural ecological perspective, the environmental, ethnographic and archaeological
setting of the site and surrounding region is examined. The historic ecological communities of Boundary Bay are reconstructed and the abundance and availability of species of economic value determined. Ethnographic Coast Salish Culture and economic strategies are examined and possible settlement patterns reconstructed for Boundary Bay. To assist in identifying subsistence activities at Crescent Beach a shell midden model is presented outlining the systemic and archaeological transformation processes responsible for the site's development. In light of this model and the above environmental and ethnographic data the most probable seasons of site occupation are suggested.
Archaeological data were recovered by the hand trowel excavation of a block of shell midden layers and the matrix, provenienced within a 0.25 m2 unit, was waterscreened through a 1.45 mm mesh screen. In total some 24 m3 of shell midden weighing 28.8 t were excavated. Recove of midden constituents was accomplished through a multiple tier sampling
system. Radiocarbon estimates of 1350 to 480 B.P., place the 31 layers recovered
from Crescent Beach in the Developed Coast Salish Culture.
Seasonality dating of shellfish growth patterns and analysis of layer constituents indicate the site was a shellfish and herring harvesting
camp occupied in February and March. Layers recovered from Crescent Beach reflect shellfish and herring processing (steaming, sorting, refuse discard, and meat preservation) as well as the immediate consumption of other foods. Artifacts indicate the manufacture, mostly in bone and antler, of tools used in fishing, woodworking and hide processing, the latter two activities conducted at the site.
Procurement of shellfish, crab and most fish species probably took place along the 3 km stretch of beach south of the site where present ecological communities contain identical resources as found in the site. Petroglyphs and a fort-lookout site also attest to the use of this area. Shellfish were the most common faunal remain, followed by a much lesser quantity of fish, waterfowl and some large mammals.
In addition to the Crescent Beach site, the Deep Bay site (DiSe 7) and Shoal Bay site (DcRt 1) may also be seasonal shellfish and herring harvesting camps, and it is suggested that Whalen II (DfRs 3) and the Locarno Beach site (DhRt 6) may have had similar uses. This evidence and the fact additional seasonal sites dating to the Locarno Beach Culture have been identified indicates the Proto-Coast Salish had a specialized economic system by 3,500 B.P. and possibly earlier. Indications of social ranking are also evident by this time.
The approach followed in this study indicates accurate information on economic strategies may be obtained from shell middens. Where research is interested primarily in seasonality, settlement pattern and subsistence
the controlled excavation of small blocks of shell midden layers, fine mesh water screening, and analysis of small numbers of shell samples will be adequate. This has important implications for the study and resource management of the shell middens of the Strait of Georgia region. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate
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ANCIENT EUBOEA: STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF A GREEK ISLAND FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO 404 B.C.Vedder, Richard Glen, 1950- January 1978 (has links)
No description available.
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The local interest in the establishment of Mesa Verde National ParkMarks, Howard Parker. January 1955 (has links)
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1955 M34 / Master of Science
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Status and death at Grasshopper Pueblo: experiments toward an archaeological theory of correlatesWhittlesey, Stephanie Michelle January 1978 (has links)
No description available.
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