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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"European contact"”.
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Monhantic Fort Gunflints: Continuity or Change in Mashantucket Pequot Lithic Manufacturing Patterns Due to European Contact
… of gunflints and other lithic tools made from European flint at Monhantic Fort and further if their patterns of manufacture and technologies were altered through contact with Europeans. As a number of the lithic tools, including the gunflints, recovered at Monhantic Fort had similar …
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The archaeology and ethnohistory of the Hasinai Caddo : material culture and the course of European contact
… along with the archival records from early European expeditions and colonization efforts, to try to identify archaeological correlates of the groups that constituted the Hasinai Caddo. The objective is to determine if specific attributes of ceramic style and technology reflect the position …
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Consequences of Contact: An Evaluation of Childhood Health Patterns Using Enamel Hypoplasias Among the Colonial Maya of Tipu
… investigate health disturbances associated with European contact. Dental defect called enamel hypoplasias were scored to assess childhood health. Standard methods of scoring (Buikstra and Ubelaker 1994) were employed to assess frequency, severity, and type of episode in the permanent anterior …
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Conflict and Culture Change in the Late Prehistoric and Early Historic American Midcontinent
… were destabilized by the indirect effects of European contact. With new incentives and new weapons (i.e., firearms), old enemies took advantage of weaknesses brought on by disease and famine to wage wars of annihilation. Algonquian and Iroquoian tribes pushed westward, driving other tribes …
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Paleogenomics in the Americas: demography, adaptations, and resilience
… historical experiences of Native Americans with European-borne pathogens, and the long-lasting genomic effects of European contact. This work was made possible through the collaborative efforts of Northwest Coast First Nations. The first topic presented here focuses on the highly debated …
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Unsortable Wares: A Petrographic Analysis of Addis Temper from the Fatherland Site (22AD501), Adams County, Mississippi
… Lower Mississippi Valley from about 1200AD until European contact, two different ceramic tempers (and presumably cultures) existed side-by-side. Areas in which grog or clay tempering occurs are considered part of the Plaquemine Culture. Areas in which shell tempering predominates are considered …
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Dental evidence for the peopling of Guam
… of fifty-six dental casts from pre- to early European contact Chamorro skeletal remains from Guam, Micronesia is described based on eighteen tooth crown traits. Chi-square tests for sex dimorphism do not indicate significant differences between males and females. Observer error was found for …
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Disease and De Soto: A Bioarchaeological Approach to the Introduction of Malaria to the Southeast US
… have studied the biological consequences of European contact, some using direct skeletal analyses to study changes in Native American health and disease. However, one major population disease that has not been part of these discussions is malaria. This is mostly due to the current paradigm in …
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Assiniboine Places and Belonging
… of Assiniboine oral history, moving through Pre European Contact to the present</p>
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The Analysis Of Contact-Era Settlements In Clay, Lowndes, And Oktibbeha Counties In Northeast Mississippi
… time to investigate how people reacted to European contact and colonization. Site locations and clusters also were used to evaluate possible locations of the polities of Chicaza, Chakchiuma, and Alimamu discussed in the De Soto chronicles. Sites in Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha counties were …
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An Architectural Analysis of Caddo Structures at the Ferguson Site (3HE63)
… early as A.D. 1000 and persisted to and beyond European contact. Many Caddo structures are found under and on mounds. Some of these structures, identified as special-purpose or non-domestic in function, were burned and buried. Often structures were purposefully burned and buried forming a …
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Sedimentology of historic and prehistoric deposits in the drainage basin of Deep River and Muddy Creek on the Piedmont of North Carolina
… analyses.;Increased upland erosion rates, after European settlement, left more than a meter of historic sediments in some areas of the floodplains. A paleosol, indicated by an Ab horizon, records the floodplain surface at the time of European contact. This paleosol, dated by Coastal Carolina …
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Crow History 1700-1950: A Political and Social Battle to Retain their Culture
… Culture throughout the turbulent times of direct contact and assimilation. In this research I examine the movement of the Crows from eastern woodlands onto the Northern Plains, with an emphasis on the separation from the parent tribe. I argue the Crow purposely create a new and unique maternally …
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An integrative, community-collaborative approach to investigating health, diet, and the oral microbiome in ancestral and descendant coast Tsimshian communities
… Pacific period (1500-500BP) and 19th century European contact, with subsequent ongoing colonization and increasing industrialization. Archaeological evidence from burials and household structures at winter villages along the coastline of Prince Rupert Harbour indicate that as warfare and the …
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Face to Face: English Uses and Understanding of the Beard in Early Virginian Contacts
… human division underwent a drastic change due to European New World encounters. The shift from religious divisions to ones based on ethnicity and skin color gradually developed in early modern Europe. Hence, before natives became "red," and Europeans "white" a period existed where the differences …
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Investigating the emergence and spread of tuberculosis in South Africa
… however, two individuals likely predate direct European contact. The association of these individuals with Iron Age populations may suggest a link between an early introduction of the disease and East African trade but caution in this interpretation is advised due to the tentative diagnoses in …
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Population Structure and Demographic History of Human Arctic Populations Using Quantitative Cranial Traits
… patterns across the Arctic at the time of European contact. However, when the Ipiutak and Birnirk disappeared from the North Arctic coast, where did they go? This work lends additional support to the hypothesis that the Birnirk at Point Barrow are the formative ancestor to the Thule, from …
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Burial Chronological Sequencing of the Colonial Maya Cemetery at Tipu, Belize Using Fluoride Ion Analysis
… and other cultural effects associated with European contact. The cemetery at Tipu in west central Belize, dating from within the first century of Spanish contact, has provided one of the largest and best preserved Maya skeletal series, with over 500 burials recovered. While this series has …