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The development of watercraft in the prehistoric southeastern United States
(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 ...
Had on and took with him : runaway indentured servant clothing in Virginia, 1774-1778
(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 ...
Analysis of the weight assemblages from the late Bronze Age shipwrecks at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya, Turkey
(1996-12)
The assemblages of pan-balance weights recovered from the excavations of Cape Gelidonya and Uluburun shipwrecks, in southern Turkey, comprise the largest and most complete collection of Late Bronze Age pan-balance weights ...
Paleonutrition of the Lower Pecos Region of the Chihuahuan Desert
(1991-08)
Paleonutritional analyses require an integration of dietary disciplines to determine both the diet of a prehistoric population and the subsequent nutritional intake. Under optimal conditions, the zooarchaeology, paleoethnobotany, ...
Technological continuity and change : a study of cultural adaptation in pram-class boatbuilding in the Netherlands
(1994-08)
This study traces the development of an ancient class of Northern European watercraft, called pram. The term pram-class is used herein to refer to a broad range of flat-bottom, hard-chine work boats and freighters. The ...
Late Holocene paleoenvirnoment and human ecology in southwestern New Mexico
(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 ...
A seventeenth-century northern European merchant shipwreck in Monte Cristi Bay, Dominican Republic
(1996-08)
Beginning in 1991 and continuing through 1994, the Pan- American Institute of Maritime Archaeology (PIMA), a nonprofit scientific and educational institution based in San Francisco, California, undertook the excavation of ...
Dental variation and biological affinity among middle Holocene human populations in North America
(1995-08)
The "Tripartite" model of the peopling of the New World presents the hypothesis that all Native American linguistic, dental, and genetic variation was the result of three migratory "waves" from northeast Asia, whose ...
The geoarchaeology of the Little Missouri Badlands : the late Quaternary stratigraphic and paleoenvironmental context of the archaeological record
(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 ...