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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 ...
The development and utilization of ship technology in the Roman World in Late Antiquity : third to seventh century AD
(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 ...
Commerce and society in the urban Philippines : a comparative study
(2001-05)
Until recently, the negative effects associated with the spread of large retail institutions away from the central business districts of local communities was most commonly identified with towns and cities in the developed ...
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 ...
Late-pleistocene archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations in the Mukogodo Hills and Ewaso Ng'iro Plains of Central Kenya
(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 ...
Pollen evidence of prehistoric forest modification and Maya cultivation in Belize
(1991-12)
Eighty three soil samples from Cobweb Swamp, Belize, were examined for fossil pollen content. These samples, from a series of cores and an excavation profile, were examined in an attempt to establish a basic paleoenvironmental ...