Browsing by Subject "Major anthropology"
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(2002-05)Between the third and seventh centuries AD, ship and boat construction underwent fundamental transformations for both merchant and military activities. The Roman Empire extended over a vast territory and included numerous ...
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(1991-12)Ship classification based on construction has traditionally divided boats into two major families: shell-built, in which the exterior skin of planking or other material is the primary component, and skeleton-built, in which ...
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(1998-05)The development of Asian watercraft began with simple flotation devices: the log float, bundles of vegetation, inflated animal skins and pottery vessels. From these, developed skin boats, basket boats and, most fundamental ...
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(1996-12)The maritime and riverine past of the southeastern United States has often been ignored or poorly addressed in previous archaeological research. Historical records and archaeological data indicate that this heritage was ...
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(1996-05)Often lost behind the mythic veneer of Texas history is the fact that the eastern one-third of the state was a true part of the antebellum South. As a result, research into slavery era Texas has been slow in developing. ...
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(1988-12)The primary goal of this study is the demonstration of the utility of parasitological data retrueved from coprolites in documenting prehistoric infectious disease. The study focuses on levels of infection of two subsistence ...
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(1997-12)Ethnohistorical and archeological data sets from 13 shell-bearing midden sites were integrated to reconstruct the annual dietary regime and the subsistence strategies of hunting and gathering populations living along the ...
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(1996-05)The Classic period farmers living in the Tonto Basin, Arizona faced a diverse and rapidly fluctuating physical and social environment. The archaeological evidence is presented for changing adaptive strategies implemented ...
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(1995-05)Geoarchaeological studies undertaken in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in the Little Missouri Badlands of western North Dakota provide a geological and environmental framework for the interpretation of ...
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(1996-05)The clothing of 18th century runaway indentured servants and convicts is described in detail in advertisements seeking their apprehension and return. As such the descriptions offer unique glimpses of a class of material ...
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(1995-05)Three data sources were utilized to investigate processes of frontier development in a portion of central Illinois. The data consist of: public domain land records, federal population censuses, and gravestone inscriptions. ...
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(2001)From 1981 to 1990, the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA), in conjunction with Texas A&M University (TAMU) and the Jamaica National Heritage Trust, excavated a portion of the underwater English colonial city of Port ...
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(2000-08)The nineteenth century witnessed profound developments in North American inland vessel construction. The story of the steamboat is familiar, but other vessels have not received adequate attention. In particular, canal boats ...
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(2003-08)The early nineteenth century witnessed a surge in oared warship production within the U.S. Navy. Shipwrights modified hull and rigging plans in order to develop armed vessels capable of navigating inland waterways under ...
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(1993-05)This research presents an interpretation of palynological and macrobotanical data to determine room function for specific rooms in the NAN Ranch Ruin occupied from A.D. 750 to 1150 in southern New Mexico. The presence of ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)This research presents an interpretation of palynological and macrobotanical data to determine room function for specific rooms in the NAN Ranch Ruin occupied from A.D. 750 to 1150 in southern New Mexico. The presence of ...
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(2001-05)Archaeological and geoarchaeological surveys of the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Kenya are reported. Seventy-one archaeological sites dating from the Middle Stone Age to the present are described. An alluvial ...
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(1990-12)For many years treasure hunters have considered the Caribbean region a prime target for their ventures. While some have chosen to seek contracts with island governments, others have chosen clandestine operations. Regardless ...