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  • Early Formative Period of Coastal Ecuador: The Valdivia and Machalilla Phases 
    Meggers, Betty J.; Evans, Clifford; Estrada, Emilio (1965)
    The publication of this report is a monument to the importance of international cooperation in scientific endeavor. The archeological sites and complexes were discovered by Ecuadorians, detailed analysis of the developmental ...
  • Early Skeletons from Tranquillity, California 
    Angel, J. Lawrence (1966)
    From these speculations one can draw three conclusions, differing in certainty.<br/>The most certain one is that the first invaders from Asia, the Palaeamericans, migrating southward over a timespan of 5-10,000 years after ...
  • Early Cultures and Human Ecology in South Coastal Guatemala 
    Coe, Michael D.; Flannery, Kent V. (1967)
    The present report is concerned with investigations carried out on the Pacific coast of Guatemala, in a region very close to the Mexican border, during the months of January through March of 1962 (see maps, figs. 1 and 2). ...
  • Muskogean Charm Songs Among the Oklahoma Cherokees 
    Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts (1967)
    Manuscript works on medicine and magic among the Oklahoma Cherokees sometimes contain idi:gawé:sdi (<I>to be said, them, by one</I>) or the texts of charm songs that, although written or partially written in the Sequoyah ...
  • Seneca Morphology and Dictionary 
    Chafe, Wallace L. (1967)
    This work is an extended description of the structure of words in the Seneca language. A description of the grammar of Seneca words has already been published in the International Journal of American Linguistics (Chafe, ...
  • Land Tenure of the Rainy Lake Chippewa at the Beginning of the 19th Century 
    Hickerson, Harold (1967)
    The land tenure of northeastern Algonkians has been the subject of discussion and controversy over the past 50 years, since Speck first began describing family hunting territory systems among Algonquin and Chippewa of the ...
  • New Zealand Artifacts from the United States "Transit of Venus Expedition," 1874-1875 
    Keyes, Ian W. (1967)
    On Monday, June 8, 1874, just over 90 years ago, the U.S. steamer <I>Swatara</I>, under Comdr. Ralph Chandler, U.S. Navy, sailed from New York Harbor-her destination, the remote sub-Antarctic Crozet and Kerguelen Islands, ...
  • Artist of "Isleta Paintings" in Pueblo Society 
    Goldfrank, Esther S. (1967)
    Pueblo society places a very considerable emphasis on knowledge, but it also dictates how this knowledge is to be acquired and used. Joe Lente was a rebel. In a society where, as one anthropologist put it, "disobedience ...
  • Archaeological Investigations on the Rio Napo, Eastern Ecuador 
    Evans, Clifford; Meggers, Betty (1968)
    The eastern slopes of the Andes attracted our attention in 1950, when it became probable that the Marajoara Phase on the island of Marajó at the mouth of the Amazon was derived from northwestern South America. Our first ...
  • Native Polity of Ponape 
    Riesenberg, Saul H. (1968)
    The island of Ponape lies at 6&amp;deg;54&amp;prime; north latitude and 158&amp;deg;14&amp;prime; east longitude, near the eastern end of the archipelago that comprises the Caroline Islands. Ponape and the nearby atolls ...
  • Cultural Chronology of the Gulf of Chiriquí, Panama 
    de Sapir, Olga Linares (1968)
  • Comparison of Formative Cultures in the Americas: Diffusion or the Psychic Unity of Man 
    Ford, James A. (1969)
    I have had an interest in the American Formative culture for some years and have searched for it with limited or no success in Colombia, Peru, Mexico, and the eastern United States. However, I stumbled into the present ...
  • Notes on the History and Material Culture of the Tonkawa Indians 
    Jones, William K. (1969)
    One of the little-known tribes of central Texas was the Tonkawa. Few objects made and used by the Tonkawa are preserved in museum collections, and no description of traditional Tonkawa material culture, based upon a study ...
  • Notebook of a Cherokee Shaman 
    Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick; Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts (1970)
    Ade:lagh(a)dhí:ya Ga:n(i)sgawi1 was the exemplification of a type institutional in Cherokee culture for well over a hundred years: the medicine man who was also a Christian preacher; who in tribal affairs led in the manner ...
  • Navajo Political Process 
    Williams, Aubrey W., Jr. (1970)
    The purpose of this work is to describe the function of various political structures and their incorporation into the Navajo way of life. The data presented in this study were collected over a 2-year period-January 1961 ...
  • Sandpaintings of the Navaho Shootingway and The Walcott Collection 
    Wyman, Leland C. (1970)
    A brief account of the Navaho and their ceremonial system ("religion") and practice of ritual, with its sanctioning mythology, provides background for the discussion of the sandpaintings of the Shootingway chantway, its ...
  • Archeological Survey of Southwest Virginia 
    Holland, C. G. (1970)
    Seventeen counties of southwestern Virginia, which are bounded by North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia, were surveyed archeologically in 1963-1964. Aboriginal occupation was found to extend from about ...
  • Anthropology of the Numa: John Wesley Powell&#39;s Manuscripts on the Numic Peoples of Western North America, 1868-1880 
    Fowler, Don D.; Fowler, Catherine S. (1971)
    Between 1868 and 1880, John Wesley Powell conducted intermittent linguistic, ethnographic, and folklore studies among the Numic-speaking Indians of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau areas of western North America. The ...
  • Biesterfeldt: A Post-Contact Coalescent Site on the Northeastern Plains 
    Raymond Wood, W. (1971)
    Biesterfeldt is a fortified village of about sixty earth lodges on the Sheyenne River in eastern North Dakota. A large central earth lodge faces a central plaza, with dwellings randomly set elsewhere in the village. The ...
  • Environmental Archeology and Cultural Systems in Hamilton Inlet, Labrador: A Survey of the Central Labrador Coast from 3000 B.C. to the Present 
    Fitzhugh, William W. (1972)
    This monograph presents the results of a two-year investigation of the prehistoric and contemporary cultural geography of the Hamilton Inlet region of the central Labrador coast. Previously archeologically unknown, this ...

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