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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Contact Period"”.
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period site and as the first historic-period agricultural center in Montana. Fort Owen provided goods and services to a variety of individuals and was the nexus of settlement for the region for several years during the latter portion of the …
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Fort Owen: The History and Archaeology of a Contact Period Site in Western Montana
… the history and archaeology of Fort Owen as a contact period site and as the first historic-period agricultural center in Montana. Fort Owen provided goods and services to a variety of individuals and was the nexus of settlement for the region for several years during the latter portion of the …
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The pearl divers of Los Frailes: Archaeological and ethnohistorical explorations of sumptuary good trade and cosmology in the North and Central Andes
… the North and Central Andes in the immediate pre-Contact period.
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Late Holocene Logistical and Residential Settlement in Interior Santa Rosa Island, California: A Comparative Analysis of Four Rockshelter Sites
… inhabited the islands at the time of Spanish contact. On Santa Rosa Island (SRI), the second largest of the NCI, numerous coastal sites have been studied extensively with respect to the subsistence-settlement system, while the role of interior sites within those systems has received less …
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An analysis of historic period Chickasaw settlement patterns
… culture change and continuity resulting from the contact between Europeans and the aboriginal people of the southesatern United States during the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries. Specifically, my thesis examines the Chickasaw Indian settlement patterns in northeast Mississippi from late …
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Kabeshinàn: Situating the BiFw-6 Site in Broader Regional and Cultural Landscapes
… of the ceramics from the multi-component pre-contact archaeological site BiFw-6, which is located within Leamy Lake Park in Gatineau, QC at the confluence of the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers. BiFw-6 has evidence of human occupation from the Early Woodland through to the Contact period, with a …
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Sherds With Style: A Ceramic Analysis From A Protohistoric Site In Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.
A key part of understanding the lesser known contact period in the Southeastern United States is studying the effects of contact on Mississippian chiefdoms and their descendant population. The Starkville Archaeological Complex is an archaeological pattern of a distinct clustering of contact-era …
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8maw8gan: Zooarchaeology of Changing W8banaki Fishing Practices at Fort Odanak on Alsig8ntegw
… traditional subsistence practices throughout a period of change attests to w8banaki cultural resilience. The adoption of domestic animals and agricultural practices in the 19th century is seen as a strategic adaptation to ensure physical and cultural survival in the face of colonial pressures.
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Porotic Hyperostosis and Cribra Orbitalia in the Adult Population of Tipu
<p>Tipu is a contact period Maya site in western Belize where a mission church and cemetery was established around AD 1560. An archaeological excavation in the 1980s recovered the remains of more than 550 individuals. In its unique location on the fringes of Spanish control, Tipu was the site of …
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Thermal Radiation Characteristics of Fluidized Solids.
… role as the time history of the particle contact period proceeds. Contrary to previous suggestions, radiation contributes significantly to the overall energy transfer for the normal operating temperature range of fluidized bed heat exchangers unless sufficiently low particle or transfer …
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Mississippi Dugout Canoes: An Ethnohistorical and Archaeological Analysis From 1538-1900s
… in the coastal North American region during the contact period, Native watercraft in the South remains an under-researched aspect.</p> <p>The Great Lakes Region has a well-documented trend of increased size and frequency of birchbark canoes after French contact in response to market pressures. …
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The Shortcomings of Maize: Using Tipu to Assess Maize Consumption and its Impact on Stature and Limb Proportions Among the Maya
… was to test this proposition using a sample of contact period Maya from the site of Tipu in western Belize. Long bone length data from 100 individuals were compared to that from two other prehistoric maize agriculturalist societies: the Schild site in Illinois and Pecos Pueblo in New Mexico.</p> …
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… household organization during the critical contact period within the Mid-Fraser Canyon. The 2012 excavation of Bridge River’s Housepit 54 (HP 54) offers a rare opportunity to investigate such socioeconomic relationships and their spatial manifestations. Hypotheses structured with a household …
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Household Organization in the Fur Trade Era: Socioeconomic and Spatial Organizations of Housepit 54
… household organization during the critical contact period within the Mid-Fraser Canyon. The 2012 excavation of Bridge River’s Housepit 54 (HP 54) offers a rare opportunity to investigate such socioeconomic relationships and their spatial manifestations. Hypotheses structured with a household …
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Granular activated carbon pretreatment for the removal of trihalomethane precursors
… Reservoir, in northern Virginia. The carbon contactors were operated in the upflow mode at flow rates of 2, 4, and 6 gpm which provided empty bed contact times (EBCT) of 26, 13, and 6.6 minutes, respectively. Reservoir raw water quality data was collected to determine what relationship …
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Hul'qumi'num peoples in the Gulf Islands: re-storying the Coast Salish landscape
… of “villages” and “seasonal camps.” Through the period of comprehensive land claims, this narrative has been reified by framing the southern Gulf Islands as the exclusive territory of First Nations’ neighbouring the Hul’qumi’num. Narratives of ephemerality and exclusivity continue to dominate the …
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An archaeological reconnaissance of the Lake Diefenbaker region in south central Saskatchewan
… archaeological sites, representing twelve precontact and six contact period occupations, were recorded. At the same time, the rates of erosion for various landforms along the eastern shoreline of the reservoir were measured at several of the heritage site locales. I determined that monitoring …
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Cultural Persistence and Plains Cree Identity
… of these peoples in the aboriginal or pre-contact period are being retained. Cultural assimilation into the larger Eurocanadian or Euroamerican society does not appear to be taking place. In the literature of acculturation this phenomenon is termed "cultural persistence" or "cultural …
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Maternal health behaviours: the development and feasibility evaluation of a mindfulness-based behaviour change intervention for pregnant women
… and retention. Adherence was moderate in the contact period (week 1 to 8), and reduced in the self-led period (week 9 to 16). There were no significant changes in health behaviours: physical activity, fruit and vegetable intake, Vitamin D supplementation, or alcohol consumption. There were …
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European impacts on the Seacow River valley and its hunter-gatherer inhabitants, AD. 1770-1900
… the archaeological data pertaining to this Post-Contact period. The expansion of European farmers into the Seacow River valley was gradual, and through the eighteenth and nineteenth century this gradual expansion affected not only the large herds of game grazing on the Karroid vegetation, but the …
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