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eHRAF is comprised of thousands of ethnographic sources including monographs, journal articles, dissertations and manuscripts. Use this page to find relevant documents by searching or filtering. Each document in eHRAF also contains a Publication Information page with added metadata including brief abstracts written by HRAF analysts who have subject-indexed the file.
The archaeology of Summer IslandBook 1970 • Brose, David S.
Initial Shield Woodland • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Brose excavted and analyzed material from the Summer Island site. The three components at the site are: Middle Woodland, Upper Missisippian, and Protohistoric. Only the materials related to the Middle Woodland period component were indexed for Outlin...A Speculative model of the role of exchange in the prehistory of the eastern woodlandsessay 1979 • Brose, David S.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Brose speculates on how Hopewell exchange may have developed from adaptations during the Archaic. As people became more settled (as seen by larger mortuary populations) exchange became more important to offset resource failure during bad years....An interpretation of the Hopewellian traits in Floridaessay 1979 • Brose, David S.
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Brose argues that the Florida material is '…at best, only limited evidence for Ohio Hopewell or Hopewell-derived materials….and that none of the sites …are profitably considered as Hopewell.' (page 141). The Kolomoki complex is examined along with th...Archaeological investigations at the Paleo Crossing siteessay 1994 • Brose, David S.
Early Paleo-Indian • New World > New World
The author discusses excavations at Paleo Crossing and how the site has been dated, accepting the statistically younger cluster as the true date for the site. The lithic assemblage is briefly discussed....Bibliographyessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is the bibliography for eHRAF documents 12-45....Discussion summary of background papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
In this disscussion summary the discussants and authors of the papers on the Archaic and the processes leading up to the Middle Woodland and Hopewell discuss agriculture. Only the data pertaining to the Middle Woodland were indexed for OCM (Outline o...Discussion summary of central region papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The discussants and the authors discuss the papers from the Ohio area and how to identify Hopewell mounds from Adena ones. Also discussed were the shape of earthworks, faunal resources, agriculture, and the acquisition of the Hopeton works as part of...Discussion summary of western region papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The discussants and authors cover the papers from western Hopewell. Disscussed is how much Yellowstone obsidian has been found and where it is found, what was traded, the Mann site, and the New Castle site....Discussion summary of northern region papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The discussants and authors discuss papers that dealt with the northern Hopewell area. Discussed are copper artifacts, trade, copper sources, the recovery of floral material, and status....Discussion summary of southeastern region papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This summary covers the discussion on papers from the southeast. Discussed are what Hopewell really is, interaction, trade, what the level of trade was, floral material, and cultigens....Discussion summary of topical papersessay 1979 • Brose, David S. & Greber, N'omi
Hopewell • North America > Eastern Woodlands
The authors and discussants cover papers that looked at Hopewell as a whole and not from a particular region. Discussed are dental patterns, agriculture, cooking practices, floral recovery, diet and food storage, dietary stress, food redistribution, ...