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In the 1930s, Strong, Waldo Rudolph Wedel and A. T. Hill found archaeological evidence in Nebraska different from the prehistoric Central Plains and Woodland traditions. The evidence was attributed to a new culture called the Dismal River culture , or Dismal River aspect, for its location on the Dismal River basin of Nebraska, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ...
A set of mammal bones which may be from several specimens. In various archaeological disciplines including archaeology, forensic anthropology, bioarchaeology, osteoarchaeology and zooarchaeology, the number of identified specimens (also number of individual specimens or number of individual species), or NISP, is defined as the number of identified specimens for a specific site.
Richard E. Blanton (born November 16, 1943) [3] is an American anthropologist, archaeologist, and academic.He is most renowned for his archaeological field and theoretical research into the development of civilizations in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, particularly those from the central Mexican plateau and Valley of Oaxaca regions.
In Remote Sensing in Archaeology, edited by Farouk El Baz and James R. Wiseman. New York: Springer. pp. 435–467. (2007) "Ecology in Human Evolution: Origins of the Species and of Complex Societies". In A Catalyst for Ideas:Anthropological Archaeology and the Legacy of Douglas Schwartz, edited by V. Scarborough. Santa Fe: School of American ...
Today, physical anthropologists often collaborate more closely with biology and medicine than with cultural anthropology. [5] However, it is widely accepted that a complete four-field analysis is needed in order to accurately and fully explain an anthropological topic. The four-field approach is dependent on collaboration.
James Deetz (February 8, 1930 – November 25, 2000) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology.His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archaeological record, and was concerned primarily with the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies.
In the United States, anthropology has traditionally been divided into the four field approach developed by Franz Boas in the early 20th century: biological or physical anthropology; social, cultural, or sociocultural anthropology; archaeological anthropology; and linguistic anthropology. These fields frequently overlap but tend to use ...
Joyce Marcus is a Latin American archaeologist and professor in the Department of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also holds the position of Curator of Latin American Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. [1]