Measuring Sedentariness and Settlement Population: Accumulations Research in the Middle Atlantic Region

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 535-557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin D. Gallivan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Community Size ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
James River ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Early Colonial ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
A Site ◽  
Residential Settlement

Archaeologists have long sought to understand the relationships between the quantity and diversity of material that accumulates at a site and the variables of community size and occupation duration. This paper examines these relationships through an analysis of mobility and settlement population in the late precontact and early colonial Chesapeake region of the eastern U.S. Drawing on previous accumulations research and two “strong” archaeological cases that provide critical values, the study develops measures of relative sedentariness and ceramic-discard behavior that can be used to model behavior at sites without stratified deposits or well-preserved architecture. Application of this model to the James River Valley of Virginia produces more reliable dates for the inception of village communities, several centuries following the adoption of maize-based horticulture in the region. The analysis also suggests that the fundamental nature of residential settlement changed dramatically in the study area after A.D. 1200 with the emergence of a settlement hierarchy including relatively large communities with lengthy occupation durations. The creation of a new cultural landscape containing substantial villages, combined with related changes in household and community organization, is central to the origins and development of the Powhatan paramountcy, one of North America's archetypal complex chiefdoms.

Overview: Lithic quarries in Pennsylvania: the archaeology of tool stone procurement

2021 ◽  
pp. 019769312110433
Author(s):  
Paul A. Raber
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Contact Period ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Middle Atlantic

This collection of papers, published in numbers 3 and 4 of this volume of North American Archaeologist, reflects recent research into the development of pre-contact period quarries in Pennsylvania and the surrounding Middle Atlantic region.

scholarly journals “Buoyant Cartographies”: Strata-Mapping the Detroit River Border

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Taien Ng-Chan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
City Image ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
Border Zones ◽  
Nature Park ◽  
A Site ◽  
International Border

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> In the early days of September 2018, a group of artists and researchers converged on the Detroit River (an international border between Detroit, Michigan, USA and Windsor, Ontario, Canada) to investigate the “Buoyant Cartographies” that this particular site demanded. As one of the parties involved in this participatory event (along with Lead Investigators <i>In/Terminus Creative Research Group</i> and <i>Float School</i>), my artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU) undertook an experimental mapping project that investigated the different “strata” of the place and the development of a “city-image.” The HPU Strata-Walk is an experimental and performative mapping methodology that focuses on how spatial meaning is created through a “stratigraphic” sensing of a site. The Detroit-Windsor border makes an especially compelling site for a Strata-Walk, in light of the conflicts over borders and walls in the current political environment, which presents an urgent need towards understanding and envisioning alternate possibilities for border zones. As a material site and geo-political space, the Detroit River border particularly benefits from intermedial investigations into spatial meanings and their construction. Notably, the role of folklore and local narratives on the internet and social media (and the erasure of Indigenous knowledge) figures large in developing one's knowledge of place. Experimental cartographies can thus help to develop alternate ways of seeing such sites.</p><p>This presentation is an attempt to trace this particular event of “discovery,” an account of how a place becomes known and how intermedial practices influence the manifestation of space and experience. Inherent in this research is the overarching question of how one begins to decolonize public narratives of place, how gaps and erasures in knowledge can be located in order to demarcate a way forward for further study and action. With these concerns in mind, I conduct a preliminary analysis of the border site through the activities of the HPU and our specific “strata-walking” framework, which focuses on different approaches of mapping-as-process, from phenomenological, ethnographic and cultural landscape reading methodologies to networked, social and digital media research. This performative mapping can shape individual experiences of the border through the revealing of complex networks, flows, and narratives, and point to fissures where alternative imaginings might be possible. I will first begin with a brief introduction to the HPU’s methodologies, before situating them in a survey of relevant literatures around experimental and critical processes of mapping. Then, using photographic and textual documentation, I delve into some very preliminary results of the investigation, focusing on touristic experiences of border crossing as well as a look at the specific “imageability” of Peche Island in the Detroit River, a place of rumour and mystery, now a nature park maintained by the city of Windsor. The overall goal will be to demonstrate the necessity of experimental cartographies in the creation of alternate experiences and more reflexive narratives about the border zone, with the Detroit-Windsor border as a case study.</p>

Exports from the Colonies and States of the Middle Atlantic Region 1720–1800

2013 ◽  
pp. 257-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Mancall ◽  
Joshua L. Rosenbloom ◽  
Thomas Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Region ◽  
Middle Atlantic

scholarly journals Introduction: Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle DiMeo ◽  
Jeffrey S. Reznick ◽  
Christopher Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Atlantic Region ◽  
National Network ◽  
Middle Atlantic ◽  
Medical Library ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Medical Libraries ◽  
College Library ◽  
Rare Opportunity ◽  
Anniversary Celebration

On December 6, 2013, the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia convened, as part of its 225th Anniversary celebration, the symposium entitled “Emerging Roles for Historical Medical Libraries: Value in the Digital Age.” Sponsored in part by a Library Project Award from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine Middle Atlantic Region, this event offered a rare opportunity for librarians and researchers to discuss collectively the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital age.1The fact that the College Library chose to celebrate its past by hosting a conference centered on planning strategically for the future . . .

scholarly journals Impact of Dilution on Microbial Community Structure and Functional Potential: Comparison of Numerical Simulations and Batch Culture Experiments

2001 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 702-712 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rima B. Franklin ◽  
Jay L. Garland ◽  
Carl H. Bolster ◽  
Aaron L. Mills
Keyword(s):  
Community Structure ◽  
Microbial Community ◽  
Numerical Simulations ◽  
Length Polymorphism ◽  
Fragment Length ◽  
Fragment Length Polymorphism ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Colony Morphology ◽  
Community Size ◽  
And Function

ABSTRACT A series of microcosm experiments was performed using serial dilutions of a sewage microbial community to inoculate a set of batch cultures in sterile sewage. After inoculation, the dilution-defined communities were allowed to regrow for several days and a number of community attributes were measured in the regrown assemblages. Based upon a set of numerical simulations, community structure was expected to differ along the dilution gradient; the greatest differences in structure were anticipated between the undiluted–low-dilution communities and the communities regrown from the very dilute (more than 10−4) inocula. Furthermore, some differences were expected among the lower-dilution treatments (e.g., between undiluted and 10−1) depending upon the evenness of the original community. In general, each of the procedures used to examine the experimental community structures separated the communities into at least two, often three, distinct groups. The groupings were consistent with the simulated dilution of a mixture of organisms with a very uneven distribution. Significant differences in community structure were detected with genetic (amplified fragment length polymorphism and terminal restriction fragment length polymorphism), physiological (community level physiological profiling), and culture-based (colony morphology on R2A agar) measurements. Along with differences in community structure, differences in community size (acridine orange direct counting), composition (ratio of sewage medium counts to R2A counts, monitoring of each colony morphology across the treatments), and metabolic redundancy (i.e., generalist versus specialist) were also observed, suggesting that the differences in structure and diversity of communities maintained in the same environment can be manifested as differences in community organization and function.

scholarly journals Komunikasi Sosial Capital Sebagai Dakwah Kultural pada Masyarakat Islam di Pelosok Desa

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-126
Author(s):  
Supriyo Wira
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Community Organization ◽  
Rural Villages ◽  
Village Community ◽  
The Status ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
The Village

Indonesia needs to have social capital so that groups living in a society consisting of approximately 500 ethnic groups can unite. Every ethnicity has the potential to maintain its culture and territory. Moreover, Indonesia is a country where most of the population lives in rural areas and only a small part lives in urban areas. With the lack of economic development and education in the rural villages, the information flowing in the villages is not as fast and significant as in the cities. Even the da'i (preachers) have to fight harder to gain trust, so that they can provide precise and accurate religious information to the village community. This study discusses deeper on how Social Capital communication as a cultural da'wah can touch the community, especially in rural areas, to absorb religious information properly and correctly. This case study employs literature review method in collecting the data. The descriptive approach employed in this study also helps investigate the status of the existing factors and then looks at the relationship between one factor and another. Human resources or human capital is a very important and strategic capital in the life of a community organization. This is especially in terms of how a preacher as a communicator can convey his da'wah message to the village community, with a cultural and belief approach. Such way of communication is what makes the village communities easier to accept the da'wah activities since they are based on trust, mutual understanding and shared values. In addition, the communicators also convey all information about religion according to the existing culture and beliefs.

The Dialectic of Sex, after the Post-1960s

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Madeline Lane-McKinley
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Radical Feminism ◽  
Fiction Writing ◽  
Feminist Science ◽  
Feminist Science Fiction ◽  
Second Wave Feminism ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
A Site ◽  
Second Wave

A key artifact of the political contradictions and utopian problematics of women’s liberation and the tradition of radical feminism at the end of the 1960s, Shulamith Firestone’s Dialectic of Sex remains a site of controversies, misinterpretations, and unmet challenges. This essay considers the critical capacity of this text at the present juncture, strongly characterized by the reactionary resurgence of second-wave feminism and a trans-exclusionary brand of radical feminism. While both illuminating and symptomatizing many of the contradictions and failures of radical feminism, Firestone’s text also strongly resonates with the critical utopian interventions of queer-feminist science fiction writing in the early 1970s. This critique of The Dialectic of Sex seeks to rearticulate some of Firestone’s key concepts within a critical utopian framework and to reconceptualize the text’s contributions to radical feminism in relation to a contemporary project of revolutionary feminism. To do this, the author suggests, requires a more nuanced approach to historicizing and engaging with political confusion—marking a matter of great urgency for the current cultural landscape.

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