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- Archaeological Investigations on Cat Island, Bahamas.
- Creator
- MacLaury, James C., Sears, William H., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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In 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact...
Show moreIn 1966 and 1967 Cat Island, Bahamas was surveyed by field parties from Florida Atlantic University in an attempt to locate archaeological sites. A total of 19 sites were found, all but one were coastal shell middens near tidal deltas or bays. Most of the sites were on the leeward side of the island where ecological conditions for supporting large quantities of shellfish were best. In March, 1968, five of the sites located in the survey were sampled by means of small test pits. The artifact assemblage consisted of over 6000 potsherds and a handful of shell and stone implements. Over 99% of the ceramic assemblage consisted of a thick, red, shell-tempered ware similar to that found in recent excavations on San Salvador by Hoffman (1967). The overwhelming amount of the Cat Island shell-tempered ware is plain with a few decorated variants. A shell-tempered series was set up and called the Palmetto series with one type, Palmetto plain, and several decorated variants. Decorative modes consisted of applique, punctation, incision, and mat and grid impressions. The ceramic assemblage also included several residual categories which contained tempering materials not native to the Bahamas. The most prominent of these was a quartz-tempered ware that showed considerable similarity to the Carrier style of northern Haiti. The decorative modes of the Palmetto series showed affiliations with northern Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands during periods IIIb and IV of Rouse's (1964) time scale for the northern Caribbean. The time of occupation was roughly 1000-1500 A.D. The culture of the island was one of fairly permanent, small villages with subsistence based on the exploitation of the marine shellfish resources and manioc agriculture. Burial and other ceremonial practices are not known.
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- 1968
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012592
- Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Bahamas--Cat Island, Bahamas--Antiquities, Cat Island (Bahamas)--Antiquities
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Population Perspective in Osteology: A Case Study.
- Creator
- Lane, Rebecca A., Sublett, Audrey J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Samples from two Southeastern populations classified as a "Koger's Island type" are re-examined using non-metrical osteological data. A populationist viewpoint is adopted and the data is analyzed statistically. This paper;diecusses the method and some problems inherent in its utilization. It is concluded that the two samples do not belong to the same breeding population. Anthropological implications of the method are briefly discussed.
- Date Issued
- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012591
- Subject Headings
- Anthropometry, Physical anthropology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE DEMA-DEITY MYTHOLOGEM IN ABORIGINAL SOUTH AMERICA.
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- WELKE, ROBERT JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Weiss, Gerald, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Jensen proposes that each cultural level is characterized by its own mythic theme, That of the horticultural level is "dema-deity mythologem," in which useful plants sprang forth from a slaughtered deity. This proposition is tested against the data from South American tribes. These are screened for presence of horticulture, and for the presence or absence of the theme. Data thus derived is analyzed statistically. The hypothesis is not supported. However, the "dema-deity" concept is a...
Show moreJensen proposes that each cultural level is characterized by its own mythic theme, That of the horticultural level is "dema-deity mythologem," in which useful plants sprang forth from a slaughtered deity. This proposition is tested against the data from South American tribes. These are screened for presence of horticulture, and for the presence or absence of the theme. Data thus derived is analyzed statistically. The hypothesis is not supported. However, the "dema-deity" concept is a widespread variant of a more generalized "extraction" mythologem, which in turn can be subsumed under the destruction-creation unity with its eventual climactic disintegration into polar opposites.
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- 1969
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13475
- Subject Headings
- Indian mythology--South America, Indians of South America--Religion
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ECONOMY AND FAMILY STRUCTURE, PORT HOWE, CAT ISLAND, BRITISH WEST INDIES.
- Creator
- LANGBEIN, MARY VIRGINIA H., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The village of Port Howe on Cat Island (Bahamas, BWI), is a small community which earns most of its living by slash-bum horticulture. The economy is not self-contained, and horticulture does not produce surplus sufficient to pay for the imports. A few government salaries and relief payments make up the difference, together with the help sent by citizens who go to work in Nassau or the mainland. The economic activities of Port Howe are inefficient in many respects, the most important being: 1....
Show moreThe village of Port Howe on Cat Island (Bahamas, BWI), is a small community which earns most of its living by slash-bum horticulture. The economy is not self-contained, and horticulture does not produce surplus sufficient to pay for the imports. A few government salaries and relief payments make up the difference, together with the help sent by citizens who go to work in Nassau or the mainland. The economic activities of Port Howe are inefficient in many respects, the most important being: 1. The people do little fishing. They buy canned fish from Nassau. 2. They raise no poultry for eggs or meat, but do without or buy eggs and chickens. 3. They have horses, but use them little, preferring expensive motor transportation. 4. They raise goats and sheep, but waste the wool, hides and milk, valuing only the meat. 5. They keep no dairy cattle, no beef cattle. 6. They have no kitchen garden the year round, but a few vegetables for two months of the year. 7. They do no canning, preserving, smoking of hams and bacon. 8. They do not sew, although they have a severe problem of getting clothing. Inefficiency in the face of extreme poverty poses the question: why? It is the thesis of this paper that this aspect of the economic activities of Port Howe can be explained as the interplay of three factors: the geological structure of the islands, the history of the Bahamas, and the African heritage of the people. It is shown that the skills acquired under slavery tend to be dropped or retained under emancipation, according to whether they were rooted in the African heritage. It is further shown that skills thus rooted tend more strongly to be retained if they are backed up by favorable traits of the geological structure and/or the historical background. Thus, goat herding, although it is manifestly uneconomic, is universally practiced. It is rooted in African tradition, compatible with the geologically dictated practice of horticulture, and has also the sanction of having been carried on throughout the period of slavery. Salt-water fishing and the use of horses, on the other hand, are not practiced today, although they were a part of the plantation economy. But they have no African roots, are rendered difficult by the structure of the islands, and were not emphasized during the plantation era as part of the life of the slaves. Cattle culture also is rendered difficult by the nature of the island, and is probably not rooted in African economy. Although it was an important part of plantation life, it has been abandoned. Some other practices associated with the plantation culture are of late origin, having only developed after the abandonment of the island plantations by their owners. Canning and home sewing by machine were patently no part of life in Africa, and the isolation of island life obviously tends to retard the assimilation of new inventions. The family structure is also shown to be African in its origins, somewhat influenced by the economics and traditions of our culture, but this influence is softened by the nature of the island and the economics of horticulture which it requires. The formation of the matrifocal family, which often takes place in West Africa, was given added impetus by the slavery institution, which stripped the male of his status-giving religious functions, while also down-grading his economic importance. The island structure intensified this trend, by requiring horticulture which can be carried on by women and children, and by making it necessary for him to leave the family home to make much of a cash contribution. Thus the institution of the matrifocal family flourishes, even though it originally rooted in African polygyny, which is illegal in the Bahamas.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13427
- Subject Headings
- Port Howe (Bahamas)--Economic conditions, Port Howe (Bahamas)--Social conditions
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- Micro-evolution in a Prehistoric Alabama Population.
- Creator
- Romfh, John Howard, Sublett, Audrey J., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Three skeletal samples from the Lu 25, Perry Site, were selected on the basis of Archaeological evidence. These individuals were observed for the presence or absence of seventy-eight cranial and postcranial discrete traits. The frequency of occurrence for each trait was determined for males, females and combined sexes in each sample. These incidences were used as the basis for statistical comparison to determine biological distance. The teeth of the individuals were also analyzed for caries...
Show moreThree skeletal samples from the Lu 25, Perry Site, were selected on the basis of Archaeological evidence. These individuals were observed for the presence or absence of seventy-eight cranial and postcranial discrete traits. The frequency of occurrence for each trait was determined for males, females and combined sexes in each sample. These incidences were used as the basis for statistical comparison to determine biological distance. The teeth of the individuals were also analyzed for caries and abcesses. All evidence indicates one evolving populati on from a hunting and gathering to an agricultural economy.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00012595
- Subject Headings
- Ethnology--Alabama, Perry Site (Ala)
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- TERTIARY HOMINOIDEA FROM INDIA AND PAKISTAN; A BIOMETRIC AND TAXONOMIC STUDY.
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- HANSINGER, MICHAEL J., Florida Atlantic University, Pilbeam, David B., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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This study continues earlier Yale work on Mio/Pliocene hominoid fossils from south of the Himalayas. The objective was to determine the number of species present. Samples consist of dental fragments, hence biometric analysis was used, in comparisons with other Hominoidea, fossil and recent, from the Yale Peabody Museum. Conclusions were that two species, Dryopithecus (Sivapithecus) sivalensis and indicus, were sampled. Statistical comparisons inferred that sivalensis was derived from African...
Show moreThis study continues earlier Yale work on Mio/Pliocene hominoid fossils from south of the Himalayas. The objective was to determine the number of species present. Samples consist of dental fragments, hence biometric analysis was used, in comparisons with other Hominoidea, fossil and recent, from the Yale Peabody Museum. Conclusions were that two species, Dryopithecus (Sivapithecus) sivalensis and indicus, were sampled. Statistical comparisons inferred that sivalensis was derived from African groups similar to Q. (Proconsul) pyanzae, and indicus from groups similar to Q. (f.) major. Variability within these species suggested sampling a variety of demes, similar to macaques of the same areas. An indicus size increase through time was documented, foreshadowing speciation into Gigantopithecus. For sivalensis, dental similarities to Pongo were noted. A criterion for sexing fossils of Ramapithecus punjabicus was proposed. Tooth area and body weights were correlated for pongids, for estimating live weights from fossil teeth.
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- 1970
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13418
- Subject Headings
- Primates, Fossil, Paleontology--India--Tertiary, Paleontology--Pakistan--Tertiary
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ANALYSIS OF THE NON-CERAMIC ARTIFACTS FROM A HOPEWELLIAN AFFILIATED SITE IN GLADES COUNTY, FLORIDA.
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- STEINEN, KARL TERRY., Florida Atlantic University, Ferguson, Leland G., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Through intensive analysis of use/wear indicators the tool kit of the little known Belle Glade culture of South Florida has been reconstructed. From this, we recognize a highly sophisticated technology which can be divided into specialized, generalized and ceremonial artifacts. All of these were utilized either directly or in support of Hopewellian ceremonialism. This, plus a preliminary analysis of the site plan indicates that one area of the site was the residence of the ceremonial...
Show moreThrough intensive analysis of use/wear indicators the tool kit of the little known Belle Glade culture of South Florida has been reconstructed. From this, we recognize a highly sophisticated technology which can be divided into specialized, generalized and ceremonial artifacts. All of these were utilized either directly or in support of Hopewellian ceremonialism. This, plus a preliminary analysis of the site plan indicates that one area of the site was the residence of the ceremonial practitioner, a second was a charnel house, while a third was the village area where craftsmen who fashioned ceremonial objects lived with their families.
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- 1971
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13472
- Subject Headings
- Hopewell culture, Fort Center Site (Fla), Florida--Antiquities
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN MAIZE PREPARATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR ARCHAEOLOGY.
- Creator
- ADAMS, JEANNE MARION., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The literature on North American Indian maize preparation has been in need of organization and interpretation. Because of this, those archaeologists involved in research on prehistoric use of maize have lacked the information that they should have. By means of library research supplemented with my own experience in maize preparation, I was able to both organize and interpret the material, primarily in the interest of archaeological research.
- Date Issued
- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13529
- Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Agriculture, Indians of North America--Food, Corn
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- OSTEOLOGY OF THE REPUBLIC GROVES SITE (FLORIDA).
- Creator
- SAUNDERS, LORRAINE P., Florida Atlantic University, Sublett, Audrey J., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The osteological material from a disturbed Archaic site (Republic Groves) in west central Florida was analyzed, both metrically and non-metrically, in an attempt to describe the population and its interaction with the environment. The dentition provided the best basis for cultural inferences. Correlation among extreme attrition, periodontal disease, and interproximal grooving was suggested. Frequencies for discrete and continuous cranial and infracranial non-metric traits were analyzed,...
Show moreThe osteological material from a disturbed Archaic site (Republic Groves) in west central Florida was analyzed, both metrically and non-metrically, in an attempt to describe the population and its interaction with the environment. The dentition provided the best basis for cultural inferences. Correlation among extreme attrition, periodontal disease, and interproximal grooving was suggested. Frequencies for discrete and continuous cranial and infracranial non-metric traits were analyzed, although a statistical treatment of the data proved impossible. Cranial and infracranial metrics were also reported. Finally, an attempt was made to interrelate Republic Groves archaeological data with interpretations suggested by other authors in reference to cultural and ethnological information.
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- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13535
- Subject Headings
- Physical anthropology--Research, Anthropometry--Florida--Methodology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE SOUTHEASTERN CEREMONIAL COMPLEX - A WAR-FERTILITY CULT. (MISSISSIPPIAN).
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- MCALLISTER, EVELYN MARTIN., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Through a study of the specialized art forms of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, and an investigation of the settlement patterns in which this Complex occurred, hypothetical reconstructions of certain Late Mississippian social and religious systems have been presented. It seems highly probable that this ceremonial material formed the ritual paraphernalia of the controlling dignitaries within a Cult organization which functioned as a state religion in widely separated cultural areas....
Show moreThrough a study of the specialized art forms of the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, and an investigation of the settlement patterns in which this Complex occurred, hypothetical reconstructions of certain Late Mississippian social and religious systems have been presented. It seems highly probable that this ceremonial material formed the ritual paraphernalia of the controlling dignitaries within a Cult organization which functioned as a state religion in widely separated cultural areas. Although dependent upon an agricultural base and, consequently, related to fertility ceremonies, the Complex was mainly oriented towards offensive warfare and expansion through conquest.
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- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13487
- Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southern States--Rites and ceremonies, Mississippian culture, Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies, Mississippian culture, Southern States
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE SPANISH RIVER COMPLEX: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SETTLEMENT PATTERNING IN THE EASTERN OKEECHOBEE SUB-AREA, FLORIDA.
- Creator
- FUREY, JOHN F. JR., Florida Atlantic University, Ferguson, Leland G., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Through controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to...
Show moreThrough controlled stratigraphic excavations, surface collections and published reports, a coastal Belle Glade settlement pattern and cultural complex is reconstructed. This site was continually occupied for a period of about 1,000 years. A population increase and an increase in socio-political complexity coincides with a change in the subsistence base at this complex during the Glades I period. This same economic change is noted in many middens along the Florida east coast and is believed to have been caused by the introduction of agriculture. This was accompanied by a religious movement in which mound construction and burial within these mounds were practiced. The diffusion of this economic-ceremonial complex was from the Lake Okeechobee area where it developed during the Hopewell period.
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- 1972
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13500
- Subject Headings
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Florida--Lake Okeechobee Region, Florida--Antiquities
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE TEACHING OF INTRODUCTORY ANTHROPOLOGY.
- Creator
- CIANI, JEANETTE TAYLOR., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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In this thesis I have attempted to design an introductory anthropology course and to consider the most effective way to teach it. Extensive use of teaching aids such as films and laboratory specimens is recommended to provide the best understanding of the course material. Each of the areas of anthropology is considered and examples are given of materials available which should prove useful in the treatment of the topic.
- Date Issued
- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13571
- Subject Headings
- Anthropology--Study and teaching
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- THE LINGUISTIC RELATIVITY HYPOTHESIS.
- Creator
- NATHAN, MICHELE., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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Although interest in the linguistic relativity hypothesis seems to have waned in recent years, this thesis attempts to assess the available evidence supporting it in order to show that further investigation of the hypothesis might be most profitable. Special attention is paid to the fact that anthropology has largely failed to substantiate any claims that correlations between culture and the semantics of language do exist. This has been due to the impressionistic nature of the studies in this...
Show moreAlthough interest in the linguistic relativity hypothesis seems to have waned in recent years, this thesis attempts to assess the available evidence supporting it in order to show that further investigation of the hypothesis might be most profitable. Special attention is paid to the fact that anthropology has largely failed to substantiate any claims that correlations between culture and the semantics of language do exist. This has been due to the impressionistic nature of the studies in this area. The use of statistics and hypothesis testing to provide more rigorous methodology is discussed in the hope that employing such paradigms would enable anthropology to contribute some sound evidence regarding the hypothesis.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13615
- Subject Headings
- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- STATE VS. CHIEFDOM: A CHRONOLOGY OF CULTURES AND POLITICAL TYPES IN THE LOWER RED RIVER MOUTH.
- Creator
- DANIO, MARY KATHLEEN., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The Mississippian sites present in the Lower Red River Mouth area cover two culture periods called Coles Creek and rlaquemine. From approximately 850 to 1600 A.D., these cultures, economically based on hoe agriculture, functioned on a statal level of socio-political organization more complex than the cultures preceding them in the Red River Mouth area. A presentation of settlement data on sites representative of these cultures along with economic, burial, ceramic and nonceramic details will...
Show moreThe Mississippian sites present in the Lower Red River Mouth area cover two culture periods called Coles Creek and rlaquemine. From approximately 850 to 1600 A.D., these cultures, economically based on hoe agriculture, functioned on a statal level of socio-political organization more complex than the cultures preceding them in the Red River Mouth area. A presentation of settlement data on sites representative of these cultures along with economic, burial, ceramic and nonceramic details will show that cultural continuity existed in this area and culture change occurred, during which the change was from simple chiefdom to complex state.
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- 1973
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13595
- Subject Headings
- Mississippian culture, Indians of North America--Red River Valley (Tex-La)--Antiquities, Red River Valley (Tex-La)--Antiquities
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- CAPITAL-DOMAINS AND LABOR-DOMAINS: AN EXTENSIVE APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF PEASANT SOCIETY.
- Creator
- PINDER, RAYMOND E. JR., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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The paper attempts to develop a useful typology of peasant societies by focusing on the statal structure in which the peasants are involved. The economic dynamics of agrarian states are considered and on this basis it is determined that there are at least two types-- capital-domains and labor-domains--and therefore at least two types of peasantry. The economic variables that specify the types are employed to account for differences in the political-legal systems of the types. Analysis of...
Show moreThe paper attempts to develop a useful typology of peasant societies by focusing on the statal structure in which the peasants are involved. The economic dynamics of agrarian states are considered and on this basis it is determined that there are at least two types-- capital-domains and labor-domains--and therefore at least two types of peasantry. The economic variables that specify the types are employed to account for differences in the political-legal systems of the types. Analysis of selected ethnographic data is presented. A new, and hopefully more useful, definition of peasantry is presented. The analysis attempts to systematize the melange of theory concerning peasant society. The major works, especially Wolf, are considered. The analysis incorporates a theoretical framework for the study of plantation societies, previously a theoretical no-man's land.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13634
- Subject Headings
- Peasantry
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- A CERAMIC CHRONOLOGY FOR THE BISCAYNE BAY REGION OF SOUTHEAST FLORIDA.
- Creator
- MCGREGOR, ARCHIE JAMES., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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A chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in...
Show moreA chronology for the region surrounding Biscayne Bay in Southeast Florida is presented using all suitably reported ceramic material and the quantitative seriation method. The intention is to go beyond the present chronology of distinct ceramic periods to one that more clearly presents the development of the prehistoric ceramic continuum of the region. Exploration is made of the possibility of establishing ceramic areas as bases for future work toward the development of culture areas in Southern Florida prehistory. To this end, comparative seriation material from the Everglades and Gold Coast regions is discussed.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13667
- Subject Headings
- Anthropology, Archaeology
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- AN INVESTIGATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL POLITICAL STRUCTURE IN SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES.
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- OLAH, JOHN ALBERT., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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If the state is that complex of institutions which integrates a culture on a non-kinship basis so as to maintain some order of class stratification, can prehistoric examples of the state, particularly in its nascent stages, be archaeologically demonstrated? Using the historic Indian cultures of the Natchez of Mississippi and the Timucua of northeast Florida as examples of such nascent states, archaeological implications are drawn from them. The hypothesis that prehistoric cultures with...
Show moreIf the state is that complex of institutions which integrates a culture on a non-kinship basis so as to maintain some order of class stratification, can prehistoric examples of the state, particularly in its nascent stages, be archaeologically demonstrated? Using the historic Indian cultures of the Natchez of Mississippi and the Timucua of northeast Florida as examples of such nascent states, archaeological implications are drawn from them. The hypothesis that prehistoric cultures with ceremonial centers at the Etowah and Kolomoki sites; both in Georgia, were also examples of nascent states is then tested against these implications, and found to meet them. It is very probable, then, that Etowah and Kolomoki were prehistoric states, and desirable that the attempt be made to further elucidate their particulars.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13633
- Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Southern States, Natchez Indians, Timucua Indians
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ORIGIN OF THE ST. JOHNS ARCHAIC (FLORIDA).
- Creator
- ANDERSON, NAIN E., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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In the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was...
Show moreIn the St. Johns River area of Florida, the preceramic period has been found to have certain different artifact types than the neighboring Archaic traditions. These different artifact types-- shell gouges and celts--have their closest similarities with types from the preceramic of Venezuela and Cuba. It was postulated that the influence for the similar shell tools was derived from the original settlement of the Caribbean area by migrating groups from the northern South American coast. It was further postulated that the original inhabitants of the St. Johns area were part of the migrating groups and that they arrived in the area probably by way of the Everglades. Evidence from the Caribbean area preceramic periods was examined for proof of this migration. Finally, a possible linguistic relationship with the historic Indians of the St. Johns area and the Warao of Venezuela Has discussed.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13642
- Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Florida--Saint Johns River Valley--Antiquities, Indians of the West Indies--Antiquities, Florida--Antiquities, Caribbean Area--Antiquities
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- Document (PDF)
- Title
- ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF ELEUTHERA, BAHAMAS.
- Creator
- SULLIVAN, SHAUN DORSEY., Florida Atlantic University, Sears, William H., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
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In December of 1973 the writer conducted an archaeological reconnaissance of the Bahamian islands of Eleuthera, Harbor Island and St. George's Cay. A total of fifteen open village sites were found along the lee shore of Eleuthera. A surface collection was made at each site and a stratigraphic pit was dug at one site, El-8. Analysis of the artifacts recovered indicated that the Bahamian Arawaks possessed a cultural system distinct from other Arawak populations,- which was specifically adapted...
Show moreIn December of 1973 the writer conducted an archaeological reconnaissance of the Bahamian islands of Eleuthera, Harbor Island and St. George's Cay. A total of fifteen open village sites were found along the lee shore of Eleuthera. A surface collection was made at each site and a stratigraphic pit was dug at one site, El-8. Analysis of the artifacts recovered indicated that the Bahamian Arawaks possessed a cultural system distinct from other Arawak populations,- which was specifically adapted to the Bahamian environment. Four ceramic types were isolated and defined within the Palmetto ceramic complex. Examination of the data pertinent to settlement and community patterning suggested a culture possessing little stratification and an economic system less productive than that of the Antillian Arawak.
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- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13640
- Subject Headings
- Bahamas--Antiquities
- Format
- Document (PDF)
- Title
- DESARROLLO ECONOMICO Y ESTRUCTURAS SOCIALES: ESTUDIO DE LA INFLUENCIA DELA EVOLUCION ECONOMICA SOBRE LAS ESTRUCTURAS SOCIO-CULTURALES, EN EL CASODE LAS COMUNIDADES CAMPESINAS COLOMBIANAS. (SPANISH TEXT).
- Creator
- SANCHEZ, JAIME HUMBERTO CONCHA., Florida Atlantic University, Early, John D., Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Anthropology
- Abstract/Description
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This study intends to organize a typology of the Colombian peasant communities. The typology is used as the base for a further study of the impact of economic development upon the family unit and kindred as elements of the communities' socio-cultural structures. In each of the types of communities--Traditional, Specialized, and Diversified--the impact of economic development is studied through the change of the already mentioned elements in relation to the economy. It is assumed that there...
Show moreThis study intends to organize a typology of the Colombian peasant communities. The typology is used as the base for a further study of the impact of economic development upon the family unit and kindred as elements of the communities' socio-cultural structures. In each of the types of communities--Traditional, Specialized, and Diversified--the impact of economic development is studied through the change of the already mentioned elements in relation to the economy. It is assumed that there have been some changes in the economic function of the family unit, and that the kindred has lost almost all its meaning. Nevertheless, the family unit as a whole is still the main economic source within the socio-cultural system of the Colombian peasant communities.
Show less - Date Issued
- 1974
- PURL
- http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/13664
- Subject Headings
- Colombia--Economic conditions--1918-, Colombia--Social conditions, Colombia--Rural conditions
- Format
- Document (PDF)