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Graduate College (9)AuthorsCheek, Charles D. (1)Collins, M. B. (1)Culbert, Patrick (1)Dean, Jeffrey S. (1)Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. (1)Hammond, Norman (1)Haury, Emil W. (1)Kramer, Carol (1)Muranaka, Therese Adams. (1)Paull, Gene Joseph, 1945- (1)View MoreTypes
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LAKHOTA BILINGUALISM: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LANGUAGE USE IN TWO COMMUNITIES ON THE ROSEBUD SIOUX RESERVATION
Grobsmith, Elizabeth S. (The University of Arizona., 1976)
Agriculture, ecology and domestic organization among the Kekchi Maya
Wilk, Richard Ralph (The University of Arizona., 1981)
The Russian Molokan Colony at Guadalupe, Baja California: Continuity and change in a sectarian community.
Muranaka, Therese Adams. (The University of Arizona., 1992)
Migration, ethnicity and cultural pattern are reviewed. The research questions how accurately the prehistoric archaeologist can interpret migration and ethnicity by means of a review of the modern migration of a group of Russian sectarians to Baja California, Mexico. Excavations undertaken in seven households at different levels of assimilation with their Mexican and Indian neighbors suggests that material culture does reflect ethnicity under these best of all archaeological circumstances. A methodology for the determination of prehistoric migrations is suggested. It concludes that "cultural pattern" is a more useful concept than "ethnicity" in the determination of archaeological migrations.
A FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF LITHIC TECHNOLOGY AMONG PREHISTORIC HUNTER-GATHERERS OF SOUTHWESTERN FRANCE AND WESTERN TEXAS
Collins, M. B. (The University of Arizona., 1974)
THE MCNARY RESERVOIR, A STUDY IN PLATEAU ARCHAEOLOGY
Shiner, Joel Lewis, 1919- (The University of Arizona., 1954)
EXCAVATIONS AT THE PALANGANA, KAMINALJUYU GUATEMALA, GUATEMALA
Cheek, Charles D. (The University of Arizona., 1971)
THE SOCIOCULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CENTRAL DEPRESSION OF CHIAPAS, MEXICO: PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS
Warren, Bruce W. (The University of Arizona., 1978)
The settlement of Nohmul: Development of a prehispanic Maya community in northern Belize.
Pyburn, Karen Anne. (The University of Arizona., 1988)
The study of prehistoric Maya settlements has been hampered by simplistic views of cultural ecology, over generalized ethnographic analogy, and a lack of attention to both natural and cultural site formation processes. As a result, Mayanists have tended to expect very little variety in archaeological features and have assumed cultural uniformity over wide ranges of time and space. Traditional research designs support these assumptions. Current knowledge of Maya social organization suggests that more structural variety may occur in Maya archaeological sites than is ordinarily discovered. Some of this variation is evidenced by features not currently visible on the ground-surface. The Nohmul Settlement pattern project employed a "purposive" sampling design to search for settlement variation over time and space. Several assumptions about surface-subsurface relationships were tested. Surface indications were not found to outline subsurface variety. Excavating at intervals from site center in both visible and "invisible" features, showed that the Nohmul community was affected by both centralizing and decentralizing influences and grouped into residential clusters resembling neighborhoods. The degree of centralization and the location of the clusters, as well as some of their characteristics, changed notably over Nohmul's 2500 year occupation.
THE APPLICATION OF CENTRAL-PLACE THEORY TO THE SETTLEMENTS OF THE PACIFIC COAST OF GUATEMALA
Paull, Gene Joseph, 1945- (The University of Arizona., 1976)