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Two Presentations Regarding Cultural Resource Management Issues on Public Lands in Southeastern Utah
(1/1/2010 0)These two presentations were made at meetings organized by Senator Robert Bennett of Utah to obtain input from interested parties regarding public lands management issues in southeastern Utah. The first presentation, made ... -
Leaving Mesa Verde: The Great Pueblo Migrations of the 13th Century
(11/3/2015 )This presentation was given November 3, 2015, at Southern Methodist University. The presentation deals with questions about where the former inhabitants of the Cedar Mesa region in the American Southwest migrated to in the ... -
A 2,500-Year Neolithic Revolution in the American Southwest
(11/3/2015 )This presentation briefly reviews diverse early agricultural site complexes in both the southern and northern parts of the American Southwest and questions the usefulness of a single concept of how the elements of a ... -
Untitled note on Engelbert Site excavations.
(State University of New York at Binghamton, 1967)Notes on Engelbert Site excavations, Nichols, New York in 1967. -
The Wilderness System and Archaeological Conservation.
(United States. Forest Service. Southwestern Region, 1975)Examines the interrelationships of the objectives of our National Wilderness Preservation System on the one hand, and the goals of archaeological conservation on the other. -
Surface Estimation of Site Structure and Content, Dolores Project
(Atechiston, Inc., 1980)In a program with a regional focus such as the Dolores Project, it is clearly impossible to excavate all the known sites, or even a very large sample of them, and, inevitably much of our inference concerning distributions ... -
Method and Technique: Prehistory. Modeling Wood Resource Depletion in the Grass Mesa Locality. Temporal and Functional Variability Among Dolores Activity Areas. An Approach to Modeling Dolores Area Cultural Change, A.D. 650-950.
(Engineering and Research Center (U.S.), 1984)Abstract of "Dolores Archaeological Program: Synthetic Report 1978-1981":The Dolores Project is a large water project currently under construction by the Bureau of Reclamation in extreme southwestern Colorado. The Dolores ... -
Behavioral Correlates of Population Growth: A speculative example from the Middle Chattahoochee
(Southeastern Archaeology, 1984)Proxy estimates of population size through time are compared for a small drainage near Columbus, Georgia and an adjacent portion of the Chattahoochee River valley. Resulting estimates of population growth differ most for ... -
Evaluations of Models with Dolores Area Data. Modeling Dolores Area Cultural Dynamics.
(Engineering and Research Center (U.S.), 1986)Two chapters are included here. In the first chapter, results regarding the contrastive expectations for the 2 models are evaluated and some tentative conclusions are reached. Some suggestions are also made regarding further ... -
Toward a Better Understanding of North Peninsular Gulf Coast Florida Prehistory: Archaeological Reconnaissance in Dixie County, Florida
(Florida Anthropologist, 1987-12)Archaeological reconnaissance in portions of Dixie County and selected adjacent sections of Taylor and Levy Counties, Florida, resulted in the description of 28 sites that, along with the region's previously known sites, ... -
Long-term Anasazi Land-Use Patterns and Forest Reduction: A Case Study from Southwest Colorado
(American Antiquity, 1988)Species of wood used for fuel changed significantly through time at a large Anasazi village in southwestern Colorado occupied from about A.D. 750 to 900. Changes also occurred in other records of plant use from this site, ... -
Malosi: An Exploration of the Mead/Freeman Controversy and of Samoan Aggression
(Pacific Studies, 1988)This article's intent is to take a step toward clarifying the nature and the place of aggression in Samoan social life. Aggression has always had a focal place in Samoan culture. In pre-Christian times, Nafanua was the ... -
Occasional Papers of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center No. 1: The Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos
(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, 1989)Included here are three chapters authored or co-authored by William D. Lipe as part of the Architecture of Social Integration in Prehistoric Pueblos. The introduction to this volume notes: “For over 100 years, archaeologists ... -
Wilderness Values and Archaeological Resource Management.
(Minnesota Extension Service, University of Minnesota, 1990)Most archaeological sites in wilderness have value primarily for the information they can yield. Often, information value can be realized only through methods such as excavation and artifact collection that physically ... -
Inhibitions and Compensations: A Study of the Effects of Negative Sanctions in Three Pacific Cultures
(Pacific Studies, 1991)Oedipus is named after his injured feet because he represents that part of ourselves lamed by the social sanctions. The fact that sanctions used to control children have consequences for character is well documented in ... -
Fieldhouses, Villages, and the Tragedy of the Commons in the Early Northern Anasazi Southwest
(American Antiquity, 1992)The appearance of field houses and villages in the early northern Anasazi Southwest is interpreted as containing information concerning inclusiveness of land ownership or control. Early northern Anasazi villages probably ... -
Occasional Papers of the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center No. 2: The Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report
(Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, 1992)Included here are four chapters authored or co-authored by William D. Lipe as part of the Sand Canyon Archaeological Project: A Progress Report. The introduction to the report reads: “The Crow Canyon Archaeological Center ... -
The Basketmaker II Period in the Four Corners Area.
(United States. Bureau of Land Management, 1993)The Basketmaker II period is important. The archaeological remains of this period document the emergence of the Anasazi cultural tradition and a consolidation of the dependence on farming that shaped the tradition from ... -
Strategies for Resource Protection: Results from "Save the Past for the Future."
(Society for American Archaeology, SAA Bulletin, 1994)On September 19-2 3, SAA hosted Save the Past for the Future, a working conference held in Breckenridge, Colo., with 161 participants. Below, the chairs of the three conference workshops provide brief summaries of the ...